What do you know about 9 mark questions?

• You get two of them in Paper 1

• One in section A: Natural Hazards
• One in section B: Living World
• You get two of them in Paper 2
• One in section A: Urban
• One in section B: Changing Economic World
• You get two of them in Paper 3
• One in section A: Issues Evaluation (related to the pre-release on Housing)
• One in section B: Fieldwork (related to your own physical or human fieldwork)
• In ALL 9 mark questions in Papers 1&2 there are ALWAYS…
• 3 marks for AO1 (knowledge)
• 3 marks for AO2 (explanation / understanding)
• 3 marks for AO3 (analysis / evaluation)
• ALWAYS FINISH WITH A CONCLUSION!!
• I do

• We do

• You do

• They greatly vary?
• They vary a little?
• They are very similar?
• “It depends” (on what?)
• Positive/negative
2022, Paper 1, Q 1.10
• Economic/social/environmental
• Absolute/relative
• Primary/secondary
 Earthquakes
 Volcanic eruptions • Focus on differences

 One HIC
 One LIC/NEE

Haiti  230000 deaths; 300000 injured  181 deaths; 2000 injured

earthquake  1.3 million people made homeless
(2010)  Presidential palace & government
buildings destroyed
 Port badly damaged & roads blocked
 $7.8 billion of damage
 Looting of shops
 Cholera outbreaks
 Tourism industry declined
Christchurch, NZ  Over 50 per cent of the city's
earthquake
buildings were damaged
(2011)  The city's cathedral spire collapsed
 Water & sewage pipes damaged
 Businesses closed for weeks
 Schools closed for 2 weeks
 $40 billion of damage
 Christchurch couldn't hold five Rugby World Cup matches.
2022, Paper 1, Q 2.9
2020, Paper 1
2020, Paper 1
2020, Paper 2
2020, Paper 2
2019, Paper 1
2019,
Paper 1
2019, Paper 2
2019, Paper 2
2018, Paper 1
2018, Paper 1
2018, Paper 2
2018, Paper 2
• And finally, a bonus slide, with a 6 mark exam question…
Figure 1: A cartoon relating to the climate
change mitigation strategy of: renewable
energy
Q: With reference to figure 1 and your
own understanding, discuss the
advantages and disadvantages of
renewable energy as a climate change
mitigation strategy [6 marks]
In the cartoon, trees and fields of farm
animals have been replaced by solar
panels and wind turbines.
Advantages of solar panels are: …
Disadvantages of solar panels are: …
Advantages of wind turbines are: …
Disadvantages of wind turbines are: …
(spot the dead bird!)