Pearson Edexcel GCE In Geography (8GE0) Paper 1: Dynamic Landscapes Mark Scheme (Results) Summer 2025

Pearson Edexcel GCE In Geography (8GE0) Paper 1: Dynamic Landscapes Mark
Scheme (Results) Summer 2025

Mark Scheme (Results)

Summer 2025



Pearson Edexcel
GCE In Geography
(8GE0)
Paper 1: Dynamic Landscapes

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Summer 2025
Question Paper Log Number P72990A
Publications Code 8GE0_01_2506_MS
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,General Marking Guidance



 All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must mark the first
candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the last.
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what they have shown they can do rather than penalised for omissions.
 Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme not according to their
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 All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded. Examiners should
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Examiners should also be prepared to award zero marks if the candidate’s response is
not worthy of credit according to the mark scheme.
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which marks will be awarded and exemplification may be limited.
 When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of the mark scheme to a
candidate’s
response, the team leader must be consulted.
 Crossed out work should be marked UNLESS the candidate has replaced it with
an alternative response.

, Paper 1 Mark scheme


Question Identify the type of plate margin shown at Y. Answer Mark
number

1(a) (i) AO1 (1 mark) (1)
Award 1 mark for the correctly identified plate margin:
 Destructive / Convergent ❶.




Question Describe the plate movement shown in Figure 1a and 1b. Answer Mark
number

1(a)(ii) AO3 (2 marks) (2)
Award 1 mark for each correctly described movement of plates:


 The Somalian plate has moved East / North-East ❶ by approximately
55o ❶🞍
 The Indo-Eurasian plate seems to have rotated / is moving West ❶🞍
 The Somalian plate has collided with the Indo-Eurasian plate / India
❶.
 There is likely to be subduction / uplift ❶🞍
 The Somalian and African plates are moving away from each other
❶.
 The Indonesia and Somalian plate are sliding past each other (in
figure 1b) ❶.



Accept any other correct description based on figures 1a and 1b.