Edexcel AS Geography Unit 1

And what did everyone put for the question on environmentally friendly products (except buying locally)?

For 10a) I talked about the increase in Polish immigrants being due to post-accession migration and generally other pull factors like NHS and education system and more access due to open-door policies

for b) I talked about post-colonial migration as a positive to the UK and Uk>Spain migration as negative impacts

am i the only one that said there was a decrease for the ages 0-5?

I did 7, for a I said that the predictions show an increase in people living in urban areas, therefore more people are susceptible and its more likely its going to be disaster. Also, more people=urbanisation-leads to floods(reduced infiltration) and landslides (deforestation). Also said more people in sub-saharan which is drought prone-low capacity to cope-at risk to secondary effects. Also very briefly went back and added how more people living in Philippines which is a hazard hotspot.

For b, Physical factors include warm seas in tropics and Australia means flooding due to evaporation and condensation...Also, eustatic sea level rise in Tuvulu and Bangladesh causes flooding-caused by greenhouse effect melting ice caps (albedo effect) and thermal expansion. Also put isostatic like in New Orleans causing cities to be below rivers. Concluded by saying that theres no general trend in distribution like tropical storms, and that its hard to mitigate the effects of physical factors but we can prevent anthropogenic causes which exacerbating the problem like the enchanced greenhouse effect.

Ah for b I wrote positives and negatives of both, was it supposed to just be one positive case study and one negative case study? :/ I just thought I should write as much as I could remember hah

what were the reasons for there being more 0-5 year olds?

Last year you needed 80/120 UMS for an A

Do you guys the grade boundaries for this exam will be fairly high


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I wrote about economic immigrants coming over here and then starting families in the UK hence the increased number of children! might be wrong though

That will be right, could it be about how the economy has improved so more people can afford to have children?

Yh I was disappointed about the lack of TNCs in the paper.
What do you think the grade boundaries will be like? What question did you answer in section b?

Damn. Did it say without agriculture?!

For that question I only had 3 points:

1) Increase in malaria has lead to a 1.3% decrease in some countries' economic growth rate.
2) Coral bleaching in Mozambique caused a 30% loss of corals which decreased their GDP by £12 - 18 million.
3) Increased flooding of low-lying coastal areas e.g. Benin leads to a decrease of 5% GDP due to costs of adapting to this.

I think that question was worth 5 marks though! I have noooo idea where the other 2 points were meant to come from...

Could have sworn it didn't say without... it was just Global warming's economic impact on Africa?