A LEVEL GEOGRAPHY: PAST PAPER 2:
HUMAN INTERACTIONS. ALL ASSESSMENT
& MARK SCHEME COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ What are map projections?.
Answer: Ways to represent the curved Earth on a flat map.
◍ What is the gravity model?.
Answer: The interaction between places depends on size and distance.
◍ What is critical distance?.
Answer: The maximum distance people are willing to travel for something.
◍ What is culture?.
Answer: Beliefs, behaviors, language, religion, and traditions shared by a
group.
◍ Relocation Diffusion.
Answer: The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from
one place to another; migrate for political, economic, envir. issues that bring
their culture with them to a new place; (ex. helps understand spread of
AIDS, since infected people relocated)
◍ Choropleth Map.
Answer: A thematic map in which ranked classes of some variable are
depicted with shading patterns or colors for predefined zones.
◍ Site.
Answer: a physical character of a place, such as characteristics like climate,
, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation
◍ Map.
Answer: A two-dimensional or flat-scale model of Earth's surface, or a
portion of it.ex: the political map of Africa
◍ What is geography?.
Answer: The study of space and place on Earth, including the location,
distribution, and spatial interaction of physical and human features.
◍ Time-Space Compression.
Answer: An influence on the rate of expansion diffusion of an idea,
observing that the spread or acceptance of an idea is usually delayed as
distance from the source of the innovation increases.
◍ What is pattern in geography?.
Answer: Arrangement of objects.
◍ Concentration.
Answer: The extent of a feature's spread over space; not same as density.
Can have same density but different concentration (ex. concentration or
particular spread of a certain number of houses on a street; how they are
dispersed)
◍ What is multilinear evolution?.
Answer: Similar environments produce similar cultures independently.
◍ Friction of distance.
Answer: A measure of the retarding or restricting effect of distance on
spatial interaction; the greater the distance, the greater the "friction" and the
less the interaction or exchange, or the greater the cost of achieving the
exchange.
◍ Stimulus Diffusion.
Answer: when an innovative idea spreads outwards, but the original idea is
changed by the new adopters (ex. diffusion of ice tea through southern
region was then changed to sweet tea)
HUMAN INTERACTIONS. ALL ASSESSMENT
& MARK SCHEME COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ What are map projections?.
Answer: Ways to represent the curved Earth on a flat map.
◍ What is the gravity model?.
Answer: The interaction between places depends on size and distance.
◍ What is critical distance?.
Answer: The maximum distance people are willing to travel for something.
◍ What is culture?.
Answer: Beliefs, behaviors, language, religion, and traditions shared by a
group.
◍ Relocation Diffusion.
Answer: The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from
one place to another; migrate for political, economic, envir. issues that bring
their culture with them to a new place; (ex. helps understand spread of
AIDS, since infected people relocated)
◍ Choropleth Map.
Answer: A thematic map in which ranked classes of some variable are
depicted with shading patterns or colors for predefined zones.
◍ Site.
Answer: a physical character of a place, such as characteristics like climate,
, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation
◍ Map.
Answer: A two-dimensional or flat-scale model of Earth's surface, or a
portion of it.ex: the political map of Africa
◍ What is geography?.
Answer: The study of space and place on Earth, including the location,
distribution, and spatial interaction of physical and human features.
◍ Time-Space Compression.
Answer: An influence on the rate of expansion diffusion of an idea,
observing that the spread or acceptance of an idea is usually delayed as
distance from the source of the innovation increases.
◍ What is pattern in geography?.
Answer: Arrangement of objects.
◍ Concentration.
Answer: The extent of a feature's spread over space; not same as density.
Can have same density but different concentration (ex. concentration or
particular spread of a certain number of houses on a street; how they are
dispersed)
◍ What is multilinear evolution?.
Answer: Similar environments produce similar cultures independently.
◍ Friction of distance.
Answer: A measure of the retarding or restricting effect of distance on
spatial interaction; the greater the distance, the greater the "friction" and the
less the interaction or exchange, or the greater the cost of achieving the
exchange.
◍ Stimulus Diffusion.
Answer: when an innovative idea spreads outwards, but the original idea is
changed by the new adopters (ex. diffusion of ice tea through southern
region was then changed to sweet tea)
