A2 AQA Geography 3A Summer 2012

Not bad. The basic structure is there, but it really needs more. 25/40

Wegener -> Biological, Climatological, Geographical, Continental Fit.
-> NO MECHANISM, WEGENER FAILED TO EXPLAIN
->Come 1948-1950s, undefloor sea mapping.
->Age of crust/paleomagnetism either side of Mid Atlantic Ridge.
->PROBLEM WITH THIS, AS THE EARTH ISN'T GROWING IN SIZE
->Discovery of marianas trench, crust is being subducted.

Theory now in place.

Volcanoes > Ring of Fire (you did this good), lots around there. Here you should get in a strong paragraph about hot spots. They don't occur at boundaries HOWEVER we know that we can still apply plate tectonic theory because they have trails. Line of islands, suggesting that either the hotspot is moving, or the plates are moving. ()
Earquakes > Good.

For top marks you need to talk about landforms at different boundaries, island arcs, fold mountains (Andes is a great one to do), Himalayas. We're talking about everything here.

Convergent->Oceanic/Oceanic, Oceanic/Continental, Continental/Continental, one landform for each.

Divergent-> MAR, Iceland perhaps?

Once you have done this you can bang out a paragraph about volcanoes/earthquakes. Yes they do, but look at all the other glorious pieces of information.

Hope that helps you.

Nike and Coco Cola, with some info on some other TNC's like Dyson, Nissan, etc.

Haha thanks, I agree with pretty much everything you said. I'm much stronger with tectonic theory now than I was when I wrote this, so I'm really hoping it comes up.

Don't you have Psychology to do?

The spec says we only need to know one TNC case study?

Yeh my bad, I meant my main case study is Nike but I've got some info on other tnc's like coca cola, etc to add in.

world cities two questionsss-

what would you use for the decentralisation of retailing and other services - causes and impacts

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contrasting case studies within countries at different levels of economic development to demonstrate urbanisation processes?

any predictions for ecosystems shorter questions?

could you give me an example based on a earthquake? I think i get it.. thankyou for your help! x

What do people thing about the D&G questions and essays, any chance of an trade vs aid essay?? What your predictions

For earthquake, my main case study is the Japan earthquake and Tsunami.
There were extremely well designed and well implemented systems in places which saved many lives. The warning system shut of the nuclear power stations (used control rods). Tokyo received a 60 second warning about the earthquake. This gave people to get out of buildings or hide under desks etc. The buildings were extremely well built meaning they didn't get affected by the earthquake.
The Tsunami walls were meant to stop tsunami waves. It was extremely unfortunate that the earthquake had caused the coast and Japan to sink by almost 1 metres rendering the walls useless.

Please note that the initial earthquake didn't do much damage to Japan. It was the Tsunami which caused the mass devastation.

hey, what are people's case studies for:

1. Suburbanisation
2. Counter-urbanisation
3. Re-urbanisation

hey, what are people's case studies for:

1. Suburbanisation
2. Counter-urbanisation
3. Re-urbanisation