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Geographic concepts and skills · Part 2 of 3
9 exam-style questions with model answers, plus 12 quick multi-choice questions — every question on this part of the standard, grouped by the 3 pages of notes they come from.
Write a full answer before you reveal the model one. That comparison is where the learning happens.
Describe how you would draw a précis map of a given environment showing settlement, transport routes and vegetation, and list the conventions it must carry.
Explain in detail why simplification on a précis map is a skill being assessed rather than a shortcut, and how you decide what to leave out.
A précis map and a photograph of the same place both show the environment, yet they support different kinds of geographic claim. Explain, showing insight, what each can prove that the other cannot.
Explain how to give a six-figure grid reference and how to convert a map distance into a ground distance.
A student gives grid references that are consistently one square too far north and east, and reports distances without units. Explain in detail what has gone wrong and how each error affects their grade.
Explain, showing insight, what the concept of location adds to a given environment that a grid reference alone does not capture.
Describe how to construct a cross-section between two points on a contour map, and what it shows.
A photograph in the resource booklet shows a road in the foreground, a lake in the middle ground and a range of hills in the background. On the map the road is in the south, the lake in the centre and the range in the north. Explain in detail how you would establish the direction the camera was facing, and how confident you can be.
Explain, showing insight, what a cross-section reveals about the interaction of processes in an environment that a contour map alone does not.