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What you get
Comprehensive revision notes on the whole unit
All the case study detail, and the story each one tells
Revision recall questions throughout
Real OCR questions on every section, and the ones likely to come next
The whole unit, built around the five enquiry questions.
1 Evidence for continental drift and plate tectonics
2 Hazards generated by volcanic activity
3 Hazards generated by seismic activity
4 Living in tectonically active places
5 Coping with tectonic hazards
Covered and labelled. No hunting across PowerPoints, OneNote and Google Classroom.
The common mistakes from OCR's published reports, so you do not have to read them yourself.
Every question OCR has set on each topic, and where to find it.
Same command words, same structure, so you can see what is likely to come.
Retrieval practice throughout, so you revise actively rather than rereading.
The exam does not ask for facts, it asks for an argument. Every case study closes with the story it tells and the arguments it builds.
Hazardous Earth is the OCR A-Level Geography (H481) unit on plate tectonics and the volcanic and seismic hazards that come with living on an active planet. It is one of five Geographical Debates on Paper 3; students study two, and each one is examined in all three sections of that paper. The specification requires case studies of two countries at contrasting levels of economic development — for the impacts of volcanic eruptions, for the impacts of earthquakes, and again for the strategies used to cope with each.
Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland — Volcanic, AC
Soufrière Hills, Montserrat — Volcanic, EDC
Mount Pinatubo, Philippines — Volcanic hazards
Mount Nyiragongo, DRC — Volcanic, LIDC
Mount Merapi, Indonesia — Volcanic, EDC
Haiti, 2010 — Earthquake, LIDC
Tōhoku, Japan, 2011 — Earthquake, AC
Christchurch, New Zealand, 2011 — Earthquake, AC
Nepal, 2015 — Earthquake, LIDC
Each one is labelled, so you revise the ones your school teaches and skip the rest.
Do email me at jono@geographystudio.co.uk and say which one. I will reply, and if possible, add it to the revision notes.
Paper 3 is the Geographical Debates paper. There are five topics; you study two, and you answer on both.
Your two topics each come up three times. Section A is based on the Resource Booklet. Section B is synoptic, so it asks you to bring in the rest of the course. Section C is an extended essay. One unit, examined three ways — which is why knowing a debate properly is worth more here than anywhere else on the course.
If you have not tested these notes yet, the complete Earth's Life Support Systems unit is free.