AQA GCE Geography Unit 3- 7th June 2013

Ive started to realise that worrying is pointless. Most of the time, facts ARE actually going into your head you just realise it. Once you put pen to paper, you'll realise that you will soon start to remember much more than you thought. Believe in yourself!

Haha how did you guess?!

It's probably quite bad that I've used the revision guide rather than most of my own notes, it means I've got different case studies to most of my classmates but I just find it so much more reassuring knowing that all of the information is there rather than sifting through my notes and hoping I've got everything!

That's up for debate - if so many people were evacuated surely that meant there were not enough strategies in place to deal with homelessness and areas deemed unsafe to live in.

That is what I have stuggled on aswell. How do you link them back to the question?

Also highlights the dependency on foreign intervention as well. Montserrat suffered more after the eruption as they needed appropriate aid and it was inappropriate with organisations refusing local knowledge where water supplies were contaminated causing disease to spread.

Has anybody else got General Studies in the morning? I've got 4 and a half hours of exams tomorrow!

does anyone know what shorter questions came up in jan 13 for weather and conflict? would be a big help

I guess you could say the response has been relatively slow i.e. new housing completed in 2005...
But the surrounding populations were aware of the threat with all the hazard zones created for the island.
What strategies can deal with mass homelessness? The country is limited in size as well as general economic prosperity so the migration strategies and the temporary housing strategies seemed to work well considering their situation.

Of course, arguing either way would look great in an answer!

I wouldn't say the management was poor. It was hardly an Armero-type tragedy; there's not much you can do to stop ash falling or pyroclastic flows devastating housing. The very fact that thousands were evacuated shows management was successful.

praying introduced species does not come up for ecosystems

I was thinking the same thing, this sort of debate is brilliant! For mass homelessness, better evacuation facilities and, as it is an LEDC, a lot of the strategies were provided by international aid because, as you say, the general economic prosperity is limited. Plus I thought the exclusion zones were set up after the 1995 eruption?

Plus the 19 people who died as a result of the Soufriere Hills eruption killed by pyroclastics where in an area that was "officially evacuated" so not that much more they could have done. You could criticise their long term response though much of the island remains uninhabitable 16 years after the major eruptions, they had to abandon their capital of Plymouth etc

For Weather, the first question gives an extract from an Indian news report on a storm which you have to analyse and pick out the management strategies.
Question 2 is: "Explain the formation of tropical revolving storms".
Question 3 is: "Evaluate the possible effects of global warming on one tropical region that you have studied".

For Conflict, the first question gives a map of Somalia which shows conflict and instability and you have to analyse it.
Question 2 is: "With reference to a conflict over the use of a local resources, outline the reasons for the conflict and the attitudes of different groups of people to it."
Question 3 is: "Discuss the outcomes of the conflict outlined in Question 17, for both those who may lose and those who may benefit".


Hope this helps! Took me a while to write this so somebody may have already answered!