Advanced Higher Geography

not sure if what i put was exactly correct but it went along the lines of the following:-
very energy intensive for malta to desalinate all this water, makes it exposed to current volatile energy prices as ithas to import a lot of oil/gas. this is a burden on the economy due to trade defecit , outflows of money etc,
the water is becoming more saline which will be bad for agriculture as plants do not like salt. also bad for other plants nearby irrigated areas.
The mediteranean is surrounded by industrial cities- Pireus, Algiers (used my atlas ) and is becoming steadily more polluted as it is effectively a closed system- very little in wash outwash through straits of Gibraltar. also a main shipping lane which adds to the pollution. malta relies on this seawater so polution in its water supply may increase leading to poor crops and no tourists.
the reliance on energy intensive desalination and the increase in popiulation may lead to water shortages - civil unrest as quotas and "down" periods are imposed. also dislike for new migrants.
The large water supply in the past will have contributed to the urban sprawl which has reduced agricultural output and may have caused the fall in tourism

not sure if what i put was exactly correct but it went along the lines of the following:-
very energy intensive for malta to desalinate all this water, makes it exposed to current volatile energy prices as ithas to import a lot of oil/gas. this is a burden on the economy due to trade defecit , outflows of money etc,
the water is becoming more saline which will be bad for agriculture as plants do not like salt. also bad for other plants nearby irrigated areas.
The mediteranean is surrounded by industrial cities- Pireus, Algiers (used my atlas ) and is becoming steadily more polluted as it is effectively a closed system- very little in wash outwash through straits of Gibraltar. also a main shipping lane which adds to the pollution. malta relies on this seawater so polution in its water supply may increase leading to poor crops and no tourists.
the reliance on energy intensive desalination and the increase in popiulation may lead to water shortages - civil unrest as quotas and "down" periods are imposed. also dislike for new migrants.
The large water supply in the past will have contributed to the urban sprawl which has reduced agricultural output and may have caused the fall in tourism

I mentioned school kids coming out, larger areas of open green space, traffic passing, people coming home from work aswell - hopefully thats worth a few marks!

don't think you'd get any marks for school kids, the data was gathered on a saturday between 1 and 3 pm.

I said the High Salinity of the water.... meant the tourists wouldn't want to drink it. And it would boost the local economy as they would have to buy bottled water....

don't think you'd get any marks for school kids, the data was gathered on a saturday between 1 and 3 pm.

I didnt notice that either and wrote half a page about scary mums in people carriers dropping folk off lol. Im feeling worse and worse about this....

Your not the only one, the A which i was hoping for is fastly fading away

Your not the only one, the A which i was hoping for is fastly fading away

Same. I hoped that the exam would boost my folio grade up to an A but I don't think that's going to happen now.
Lol at scary mums in people carriers That's bad on the SQA's part though, the day and time are not immediately obvious.

I've got no idea how good or bad my issue/studies are - we didn't have examples of what's an A,B,C etc. so it's really hard to tell. Both of mine were twice the recommended word count though and I don't think they'll look at that favourably given that this is the first year word limits don't apply...

I was 1000 words over on each. But my study lacked analysis... coz i only properly learned stats after it was away. It will be interesting to see. I think I've messed up though.

The direction of the map is not immediately obvious either. I only noticed just now that the North sign was pointing to the right.

Oh yeah! Does that really matter though? It's quite obvious that 1 is the CBD I think.

Same. I hoped that the exam would boost my folio grade up to an A but I don't think that's going to happen now.
Lol at scary mums in people carriers That's bad on the SQA's part though, the day and time are not immediately obvious.

I've got no idea how good or bad my issue/studies are - we didn't have examples of what's an A,B,C etc. so it's really hard to tell. Both of mine were twice the recommended word count though and I don't think they'll look at that favourably given that this is the first year word limits don't apply...

I thought the appendix was part of the page count???

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