A2 Edexcel Geography 2016 Contested Planet/Geographical Research

Please vote on the poll above if you are studying Edexcel Geography

Not very long until the exam! Please post down any predictions you may have on what may come up for any topic.

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For energy only 5 points from the spec haven't came up as a 15 marker
1) Access to and consumption of renewable/non-renewable resources is not evenly distributed and depends on factors
2)Demand for energy is growing globally and at regional local scales
3) Energy pathways are complex and show increasing levels of risk
4) Energy insecurity has stimulated exploration of technically difficult and sensitive areas
5) Different responses to increasing energy demands
- Hopefully 4/5 comes up
For development gap :
1) Trade and investment as a key role in the development gap
2) The development gap has ethnic/religious dimension
3) Range of theories/approaches to reducing the gap
4) Trade, investment and economic growth have a role in reducing the gap
5) The future of the development gap is a stark one
- Likely question to come up around reducing the development gap ( linked with MDG)

3) Energy pathways are complex and show increasing levels of risk4) Energy insecurity has stimulated exploration of technically difficult and sensitive areas

these have come up!

Energy pathways was about political and economic impacts of disruption not about increasing levels of risk

I feel like if they're just constantly recycling questions that water could have a players question? Hasn't occurred in the last few years. Just speculating though!

I have also speculated this, but unsure as Players has come up at least twice for waters i think

For energy only 5 points from the spec haven't came up as a 15 marker
1) Access to and consumption of renewable/non-renewable resources is not evenly distributed and depends on factors
2)Demand for energy is growing globally and at regional local scales
3) Energy pathways are complex and show increasing levels of risk
4) Energy insecurity has stimulated exploration of technically difficult and sensitive areas
5) Different responses to increasing energy demands
- Hopefully 4/5 comes up
For development gap :
1) Trade and investment as a key role in the development gap
2) The development gap has ethnic/religious dimension
3) Range of theories/approaches to reducing the gap
4) Trade, investment and economic growth have a role in reducing the gap
5) The future of the development gap is a stark one
- Likely question to come up around reducing the development gap ( linked with MDG)

Hi guys

In the superpowers pre release for figure 13 (the resources and onward) what stuff should i include for synoptic links and i don't understand the impacts on the last page! Could someone please help me, we glossed over it with my teacher because we were running out of time so I really have no idea what to do

Maybe an evaluation of the role or success of global frameworks, such as the MDGs, in reducing the gap? In which case you could then introduce other key ideas about local/national/global poverty reduction?

Good luck everyone!

I would agree with your last part - I don't think they would ask a 15 solely around the MDGs. I suppose it could come up in a 10 marker with a figure showing the varying progress globally - although something similar has been done like this before.

For 'life on the margins', in terms of political factors what case studies will you use? or for case studies like China or Sudan what would you say the political factors are and would you judge them as the most significant reason for food supply inequality?

These are the timing suggested by my teacher and I just stick to them, no matter what, if I don't finish I just move on to next question
Section A:
10 marker - 16 minutes
15 marker - 24 minutes
Section B:12 marker - 21 minutes
16 marker -28 minutes
Unit 4:
Plan - 7 minutes
Introduction - 18 minutes
Methods Table - 5 minutes
Analysis and sub-conclusion - 45 minutes
Conclusion - 10 minutes
Hope that helps

5) Different responses to increasing energy demands
- would you be talking about the radical new technologies/policies or something elsE?

or would you cut it into developed / developing world and say how they would respond to increasing demand do 2 paragraphs on each?
e.g - developed: explore alternate sources of energy i .e renewable + introduce radical new policies to combat energy demand
developing: use alternate fuels like biofuel made from animal dung etc and migration to the city b/c of better electricity turn over there
NIC: consume more coal +fossil fuels (china) + create new energy pathways (china - myanmar pipeline and china -kazakshtan pipeline) or india who have delved in creating more renewable sources