AQA GCSE Geography Paper 1 (2026/2027) |
Exam Questions | 100% Verified Answers |
Prep Guide | A+
• Natural Hazard -✓✓A natural hazard is a natural process which could cause death,
injury or disruption to humans, or destroy proprty or posesions.
• Natural disaster -✓✓A natural hzard that has actualy happened
• Geological hazards -✓✓Caused by kand and tectonic processes
• Meteorological hazards -✓✓Caused by weather and climate
• Factors affecting hazard risk -✓✓Urbanisation, poverty, development, climate change
• Tectonic plates -✓✓Slabs of the Earth's crust
• Continental crust -✓✓thicker and less dense
• Oceanic crust -✓✓thinner and more dense
• Tectonic plate movement -✓✓caused by convection currents underneath the Earth's
crust
• Destructive plate -✓✓Two plates moving towards one another, oceanic plate subducts
under continental plate and friction causes melting of oceanic plate, triggers earthquake
• Constructive plates -✓✓Two plates move apart, magma forces way along gap and
causes earthquake, erupted lava cools and forms volcano
• Conservative plate -✓✓Two plates moving alongside, friction can send shockwaves
causing earthquakes
• Earthquake causes -✓✓two plates 'jerking' past each other
• the focus -✓✓the point in the Earth the earthquake starts
• Epicentre -✓✓the point on the Earth' surface straight above the focus
• Where are volcanoes found -✓✓At destructive and constructive plate marhgins
, • Where are earthquakes found -✓✓At all three types of plate margin
• Earthquake Primary effects -✓✓buildings and bridges collapse
people are injured or killed
Roads are destroyed
• Earthquake Secondary effects -✓✓Can trigger landslides, tsunamis = destruction
homeless can die from the cold
Leaking gas can start fires
• Earthquake Immediate responses -✓✓Rescue people trapped by collapsed buildings
and treat injured people
Recover dead bodies to prevent spread of disease
Foreign governments or charities may send aid workers, supplies , equipment or
financial donations to the areas affected
• Earthquake Long term responses -✓✓Re-house people who have lost their homes
Repair or rebuild damaged buildings, roads, railways and bridges.
Reconnect broken electricity, water, gas, communication connections
• Volcanoes Primary effects -✓✓Buildings and roads are destroyed by lava flows and
pyroclastic flows.
Buildings may also collapse if enough ash falls onto them.
People & animals are injured/killed by pyroclastic flows, lava,falling rocks
• Volcanoes Secondary effects -✓✓Mudflows form when volcanic material is mixed with
water and landslides cause destruction, death & injury.
Tourism can be disrupted straight after and the eruption - but often it can increase
afterwards with tourists interested in seeing volcanoes
Ash makes fields more fertile once it's broken down
• Volcanoes Immediate responses -✓✓Evacuate people before the eruption if it was
predicted or evacuate as soon as possible after direction starts
Provide temporary supplies of electricity gas and communication systems if regular
supplies have been damaged
Foreign governments or charities may send aid workers supplies equipment or financial
donations to areas affected
• Volcanoes Long term responses -✓✓Repair and rebuild if possible or resettle affected
people elsewhere.
Repair and reconnect damaged infrastructure (roads, rail, power lines and
communication networks etc)
Improve, repair and update monitoring / evacuation plans
Exam Questions | 100% Verified Answers |
Prep Guide | A+
• Natural Hazard -✓✓A natural hazard is a natural process which could cause death,
injury or disruption to humans, or destroy proprty or posesions.
• Natural disaster -✓✓A natural hzard that has actualy happened
• Geological hazards -✓✓Caused by kand and tectonic processes
• Meteorological hazards -✓✓Caused by weather and climate
• Factors affecting hazard risk -✓✓Urbanisation, poverty, development, climate change
• Tectonic plates -✓✓Slabs of the Earth's crust
• Continental crust -✓✓thicker and less dense
• Oceanic crust -✓✓thinner and more dense
• Tectonic plate movement -✓✓caused by convection currents underneath the Earth's
crust
• Destructive plate -✓✓Two plates moving towards one another, oceanic plate subducts
under continental plate and friction causes melting of oceanic plate, triggers earthquake
• Constructive plates -✓✓Two plates move apart, magma forces way along gap and
causes earthquake, erupted lava cools and forms volcano
• Conservative plate -✓✓Two plates moving alongside, friction can send shockwaves
causing earthquakes
• Earthquake causes -✓✓two plates 'jerking' past each other
• the focus -✓✓the point in the Earth the earthquake starts
• Epicentre -✓✓the point on the Earth' surface straight above the focus
• Where are volcanoes found -✓✓At destructive and constructive plate marhgins
, • Where are earthquakes found -✓✓At all three types of plate margin
• Earthquake Primary effects -✓✓buildings and bridges collapse
people are injured or killed
Roads are destroyed
• Earthquake Secondary effects -✓✓Can trigger landslides, tsunamis = destruction
homeless can die from the cold
Leaking gas can start fires
• Earthquake Immediate responses -✓✓Rescue people trapped by collapsed buildings
and treat injured people
Recover dead bodies to prevent spread of disease
Foreign governments or charities may send aid workers, supplies , equipment or
financial donations to the areas affected
• Earthquake Long term responses -✓✓Re-house people who have lost their homes
Repair or rebuild damaged buildings, roads, railways and bridges.
Reconnect broken electricity, water, gas, communication connections
• Volcanoes Primary effects -✓✓Buildings and roads are destroyed by lava flows and
pyroclastic flows.
Buildings may also collapse if enough ash falls onto them.
People & animals are injured/killed by pyroclastic flows, lava,falling rocks
• Volcanoes Secondary effects -✓✓Mudflows form when volcanic material is mixed with
water and landslides cause destruction, death & injury.
Tourism can be disrupted straight after and the eruption - but often it can increase
afterwards with tourists interested in seeing volcanoes
Ash makes fields more fertile once it's broken down
• Volcanoes Immediate responses -✓✓Evacuate people before the eruption if it was
predicted or evacuate as soon as possible after direction starts
Provide temporary supplies of electricity gas and communication systems if regular
supplies have been damaged
Foreign governments or charities may send aid workers supplies equipment or financial
donations to areas affected
• Volcanoes Long term responses -✓✓Repair and rebuild if possible or resettle affected
people elsewhere.
Repair and reconnect damaged infrastructure (roads, rail, power lines and
communication networks etc)
Improve, repair and update monitoring / evacuation plans
