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GEOGRAPHY

HIGHER LEVEL AND STANDARD LEVEL

PAPER 2 – RESOURCES BOOKLET

Wednesday 17 November 2010 (morning)

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Do not open this resources booklet until instructed to do so.

Use the resources as appropriate to the questions in paper 2.

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[Source: Satellite image of Zeebrugge, Institut Géographique National – www.ign.be]

[Copyright No. A2524 granted by the Institut Géographique National – Bruxelles – www.ign.be]

Bruxelles –

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C11. Topographic mapping

The map shows the area around Zeebrugge; a commercial port in Belgium.

The scale of the map is 1:50000 and the contour interval is 2.5 metres. The map is dated 2002

and the satellite photograph is dated 2005.

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Spot height – Height rounded to the metre

Contour

Auxiliary contour

Index contour

Cemetery – Ruin – Greenhouse

Lighthouse – Signal-light – Beacon

Stone – Kilometre stone

Chimney stack – Conspicuous tree – Pylon

(telecommunication)

Tower – Water-tower – Cooling-tower

Surfaced path

Dirt track – Path

Road with rough surface

Road less than 3.5 m wide

Under construction

Road number – Exit

Power transmission line

Saltings – Foreshore –

Salt meadows

Sand – Heath or moor –

Sports complex

Orchard, nursery, osier bed

– Park, lawn

Deciduous trees – Conifers

– Mixed woodland

Wall – Row of trees

Rock – Spoil heap – Dunes

Slope, crest – Dike or earth

bank

Windmill – Watermill –

Wind-engine

Church – Chapel or

shrine – Cross – Castle

Factory, warehouse, shed,

garage

Built-up area

Trigonometrical point :

elevated – ground level

Visible pipe –

Aerial cableway

Bridge – Viaduct –

Road narrowing – Tunnel

Bridges – Tunnel

Level crossings –

Not electrified

Sidings – Station – Halt

Railway : out of use –

under construction

Railway : single track

Railway : H.S.T. – multi-track

Roads 3.5 m to 7 m wide

Roads 7 m wide or more (2 or 3 lanes)

Roads with 4 or more lanes

Dual carriageways

Other roadsLinking roadsSecondary roadsMain roads

Parking place : with/without filling stationMotorway

Visible water pipe

Footbridge – Lock – Culvert – Dam

a. Watercourse wider than 50 m

b. Watercourse 25 m to 50 m wide

c. Watercourse 15 m to 25 m wide

d. Watercourse 3 m to 15 m wide

e. Brook

f. Intermittent watercourse

g. Pond

h. Swamp, marsh

i. Spring, fountain, well, reservoir

1. Navigable

2. Unnavigable

Beek Brook

Font. Fountain

Pomp. Pumping station

Res. Reservoir

Zuiv. Filtration bed

Ab. Abbey

Alstr. Landing-stage

Beg. Beguinage

Bw. Fire station

Calv. Wayside cross

Gh. Town hall

Hve Farm

Kap. Chapel or shrine

Kast. Castle

Kl. Nursing home

Kler Convent

Mol. Mill

Pl Pole

Pol. Integrated police force

Sch. School

Stgve Quarry

Vml. Former

Zandgr. Sandpit

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– 4 – A5. Ecosystems and human activity

(b) Structured question

The maps show the changes in vegetation cover which have taken place over a 33 year period in one area in Mediterranean France.

1946

1961 1979

1946 1961 1979

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dense woodlandmid-dense woodlandopen woodlandshrubland/scrublandcultivated land

0 5 000 10 000 km

[Source: Institut für Angewandte Forschung, FH Nürtingen, Schelmenwasen 4-8, D-72622 Nürtingen, Fig 2 – change of vegetation formations over time – region St-Martin-de-Londres 1946 – 1979.]

A6. Climatic hazards and change

(b) Structured question

The maps show the pattern of wet acid deposition (the higher the value of sulfate units, the more acidic the deposition) for the eastern USA for three different three-year periods.

NYMI

OH

FL

GA

ME

KY

IAPA

MO

MN

NYMI

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IAPA

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Great Lakes

Great Lakes

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Low Med High

Key:MN – MinnesotaIA – IowaMO – MissouriMI – MichiganOH – OhioKY – KentuckyGA – GeorgiaFL – FloridaPA – PennsylvaniaNY – New YorkME – Maine

A4. Lithospheric processes and hazards

(b) Structured question

The map shows the liquefaction hazard in the communities of Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, and Piedmont for a magnitude 7.1 earthquake on the Hayward fault (West Coast of the USA).

California

Area of Map

Kilometres

[U.S. Geological Survey Department of the Interior/USGSReproduced with permission.]

[DRISCOLL, C. T., G. B. LAWRENCE, et al. (2001). Acidic Deposition in the Northeastern United States: Sources and Inputs, Ecosystem Effects, and Management Strategies. BioScience 51(3): 180--198. Copyright © 2001, American Institute of Biological Sciences. Reproduced with permission.]