Geography Short Questions

BallerinaBabe

Anyone remember answers of anything? I'd love to know how it went! Also that one about the tourist office, ridiculous!

RHunce

The tourist office was regular opening hours. It gave this in the legend that was supplied with the map.

Many of the short questions were difficult though.

polka dot

Ridiculous as in crazy easy? Definitely. Funny though.

I especially liked the falling house prices question.

"Give one reason why house prices fell after 2007?"

BallerinaBabe

ridiculous as in the fact that it was a bit ridiculous! easy obviously but a little odd all the same!

aranciata

i just said that banks no longer gave out loans, meaning that no one could buy houses, so the prices fell.... that's right, right?

polka dot

aranciata wrote: »

i just said that banks no longer gave out loans, meaning that no one could buy houses, so the prices fell.... that's right, right?

I just said recession

BallerinaBabe

polka dot wrote: »

I just said recession

haha snaaap!

flyaway.

The tourist office one was on the legend. It was really easy!

The rest were a bit weird. Hope I made up for it with the rest of the paper.

lisabisa

For the types of energy I completely blanked.
Said geothermal? and found out later solar wouldve worked. Ah.

LittleMissLost

What the HELL is "Striations"?! :L

And "Iberian Peninsula".. What?!

Rock types in Ireland, kicking myself now! What were the right answers? I know Basalt was up the north but sin é

Duhh

currychips

LittleMissLost wrote: »

What the HELL is "Striations"?! :L

And "Iberian Peninsula".. What?!

Rock types in Ireland, kicking myself now! What were the right answers? I know Basalt was up the north but sin é

Duhh

Yeah! what th hel's a striation ? that was awful weird :O :O

AislingMarie

BallerinaBabe wrote: »

haha snaaap!

Eh Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap!!

Recession!

The effort I put into answering some of those short questions ! Whew!:D

LittleMissLost

currychips wrote: »

Yeah! what th hel's a striation ? that was awful weird :O :O

I can honestly say I've never heard that word before in my LIFE! :eek: I guessed it was the watery looking picture?

AislingMarie

LittleMissLost wrote: »

What the HELL is "Striations"?! :L

And "Iberian Peninsula".. What?!

Rock types in Ireland, kicking myself now! What were the right answers? I know Basalt was up the north but sin é

Duhh

I said Basalt in the north, Sandstone in the Corkish area, Limestone in the centre of Ireland and Granite in the South eastish area!..

Could be wrong of course!:o

._.

Yeah, I WTF'd when I saw those short questions. I think I still did pretty well in them, but they made you work a lot more for your marks than pervious years, that's for sure.

aranciata

AislingMarie wrote: »

I said Basalt in the north, Sandstone in the Corkish area, Limestone in the centre of Ireland and Granite in the South eastish area!..

Could be wrong of course!:o

what i said too! having the west of clare and the burren in a different colour to any of the options, including limestone threw me though... did they manipulate the map or something? i remember it being in a dark green or something..

brian93

I had a sh*t attack when I saw the first short question, and the second one was different but I got it. The rest were lovely. For the corrie or arete one, was the corrie the larger area circled in red?

polka dot

aranciata wrote: »

what i said too! having the west of clare and the burren in a different colour to any of the options, including limestone threw me though... did they manipulate the map or something? i remember it being in a dark green or something..

North was basalt, hugest area was limestone, area around Wicklow was granite (Wicklow granite anyone?) and Cork was Sandstone.

Teacher went through the paper with us after.
http://www.examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2011/LC005ALP000EV.pdf
From what I can remember:

Q1: A = Striations
B = Boulder clay
C = Erratic
D = Drumlin
(I know I got the erosion/deposition part wrong so I'll let you google that bit.

Q2: Maps
Ringfort
50
Tourist office opens at regular hours
Conical hill

Q3: OS Map and photo
Can't remember... R549. Orange one.
N something. Green and white.
Q446 007
North west

Q4: Regions
Cultural - Basque
Physical - Alps
Peripheral - Mezzo
Urban - Paris

Q5: Coastal landforms
A-Blow hole
B-Sea arch
C-Sea stack
D- Bay

Q6: Weather chart (this threw me )
TRUE
True
FALSE
FALSE

Q7: Landforms
I screwed this one up too. I will not embarass myself.

Q8: Structure of the earth
A - Core
B - Crust
C - Asthenosphere
D - Mantle

Q9: Rock type (look up there^^)

Q10: Satellite interpretation
A- oil slick
B- volcano in alaska
C- pakistan
D- san andreas fault

Q11: Energy capacity in Ireland
239
I just said because we are trying to cut down on gas emissions
33
Solar and geothermal

Q12: Graphical interpretation
Outside Dublin
250,000
April 2007
Recession! :P

LifesaverNiall

ok it was ANNOYING me soooo much!
for one of the short questions it asked what the little red circle on the map is?..
what is it? there was millions of them!

also the geography exam should be wayyy longer.. i had to rush the end of my regional and all of my elective questions

didnt help that my hand is still half dead from both english papers!

LifesaverNiall

just answered my question above.. ringfort..
jeeze, there was feckin loads of them!

martyllia

i just looked at the OL paper and i think it was much nicer than HL . The composition of b & c was done much better at OL and phrasing of q were nicer,but it's OL that's why it's like that wished HL had the composition of qs of OL paper

LittleMissLost

martyllia wrote: »

i just looked at the OL paper and i think it was much nicer than HL . The composition of b & c was done much better at OL and phrasing of q were nicer,but it's OL that's why it's like that wished HL had the composition of qs of OL paper

Umm I really don't mean to sound sarcastic but I think that's the point.. There's supposed to be a difference between OL & HL, hence the points difference

PJelly

Thank god I looked back over my short questions at the end. Somehow I had written down:
D
D
D
C
I have no idea how I managed to do so.

LittleMissLost

PJelly wrote: »

Thank god I looked back over my short questions at the end. Somehow I had written down:
D
D
D
C
I have no idea how I managed to do so.

Crazy stuff can happen when you're under pressure! :rolleyes:

polka dot

PJelly wrote: »

Thank god I looked back over my short questions at the end. Somehow I had written down:
D
D
D
C
I have no idea how I managed to do so.

I put vegetable oil for a renewable resource. Had it in for AGES before I got to the volcano question and was writing about the positive effects of volcanos in Iceland = geothermal energy :pac:

Don't know where I got vegetable oil from. I think I thought you put it in Green Cars. Maybe it's true.

martyllia

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Umm I really don't mean to sound sarcastic but I think that's the point.. There's supposed to be a difference between OL & HL, hence the points difference

i know,i just think that OL paper was really nice and lookin back at previous OL papers there wasn't anythin unexpected today, for HL it was the hardest paper ever,in my opinion ,they threw economic aspects into physical,and the short were kinda tricky,i know its a HL ,but previous papers were much nicer me thinks
i still have a feelin i passed it even though i messed it a little bit

LittleMissLost

martyllia wrote: »

i know,i just think that OL paper was really nice and lookin back at previous OL papers there wasn't anythin unexpected today, for HL it was the hardest paper ever,in my opinion ,they threw economic aspects into physical,and the short were kinda tricky,i know its a HL ,but previous papers were much nicer me thinks
i still have a feelin i passed it even though i messed it a little bit

Yeah actually did anyone notice how a lot of the paper was based on economic impacts etc?? :O
Short Q's
Physical
Regional
AND
Human!

polka dot

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Yeah actually did anyone notice how a lot of the paper was based on economic impacts etc?? :O
Short Q's
Physical
Regional
AND
Human!

I avoided these like the plague. Economic effects of quarrying? I learned half a paragraph on this. eg. 90,000 people employed in the construction industry before 2008. But it was literally a paragraph! No idea how you'd get an essay out of it.

Very economic this paper. I was wondering would it have been easier if we had have studied the economic elective?

martyllia

polka dot wrote: »

Very economic this paper. I was wondering would it have been easier if we had have studied the economic elective?

not really,i've done economic and didn't help at all:<

apkbarry

polka dot wrote: »

Q8: Structure of the earth
A- Core
B- Asthenosphere
C- Crust
D- Mantle

Are you sure this is right?
I thought it was
A - Core
B - Crust
C - Asthenosphere
D - Mantle

Otherwise I know I got it wrong..

LittleMissLost

apkbarry wrote: »

Are you sure this is right?
I thought it was
A - Core
B - Crust
C - Asthenosphere
D - Mantle

Otherwise I know I got it wrong..

Yeah that's what I thought too...

apkbarry

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Yeah that's what I thought too...

I know I've taken Geography up in fifth year, but im not COMPLETELY thick :P

randylonghorn

LittleMissLost wrote: »

What the HELL is "Striations"?! :L

And "Iberian Peninsula".. What?!

Striations are furrows or ridges, often associated with glacial activity.

And the Iberian peninsula is Spain + Portugal.

And I stopped geog at Junior! :P

polka dot

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Yeah that's what I thought too...

Well what you put down, is what I put down in my exam. When I came out and asked the teacher she said it was wrong!

I'd be quite happy if you guys were right, means I got full marks in that question! :pac: Will go back and change it.

DaveMur1

randylonghorn wrote: »

Striations are furrows or ridges, often associated with glacial activity.

I just thought it was like a big knife that cut's through the earth, which gave it the nice sleek, sexy look,like in the picture on the geography paper,
Nice to see you can recall these technical terms from when you were 14 to put us all to sham.

LittleMissLost

randylonghorn wrote: »

Striations are furrows or ridges, often associated with glacial activity.

And the Iberian peninsula is Spain + Portugal.

And I stopped geog at Junior! :P

Right...



:cool:



Yes, you're really smart

RMD

apkbarry wrote: »

Are you sure this is right?
I thought it was
A - Core
B - Crust
C - Asthenosphere
D - Mantle

Otherwise I know I got it wrong..

Seems to be a pretty popular diagram, type Asthenosphere into google images and plenty of similar images come up. This one shows the correct titles for the layers



The questions were hard but fair. I wouldn't be surprised if they set out to confuse people as previously it's a very easy area to pick up 80 marks, this year I think they tried to change that.

randylonghorn

DaveMur1 wrote: »

Nice to see you can recall these technical terms from when you were 14 to put us all to sham.

It's not as long ago as some people around here seem to think!

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Yes, you're really smart

Actually, nope.

But it does make me wonder how much they have abridged the geography syllabi in the intervening years if those terms are unfamiliar.

BallerinaBabe

Think I got 76 in the short questions! Happy out but a little bit annoyed that my mistake was mixing up the crust and the athenosphere, i should have known that.

LittleMissLost

randylonghorn wrote: »

It's not as long ago as some people around here seem to think!

Actually, nope.

But it does make me wonder how much they have abridged the geography syllabi in the intervening years if those terms are unfamiliar.

Ican tell you, I've done geography since 1st year, got an A in HL Junior Cert and a B2 in HL LC Mock and have never come across striations in any of the books..

Our teacher is SH1TE though!

Mysteriouschic

How were we supposed to know if the tourist office had regular open hours?
Did you see the ordinary level short question were so simple, you couldn't go wrong with them. Seriously you could get an A in that paper.

What on earth was stratriations? an conical hill? never heard of those before yesterday.
The landform question wasn't that clear. Then the structure of the earth looking like a cone? What the hell was that? Hadn't seen that either. Why did they have to make our paper so hard this year? I was hoping for a B in that. Basically half the short questions I'd never seen or heard of before or the questions were stupid like the tourist question

biggaman

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Ican tell you, I've done geography since 1st year, got an A in HL Junior Cert and a B2 in HL LC Mock and have never come across striations in any of the books..

Our teacher is SH1TE though!

Exact same, I guessed it was to do with "strata" though, meaning it'd have to be "B", it wasn't though. oh well :L

flyaway.

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

How were we supposed to know if the tourist office had regular open hours?
Did you see the ordinary level short question were so simple, you couldn't go wrong with them. Seriously you could get an A in that paper.

The opening hours thing was on the legend that was on the back of the map they gave you. I think the filled in Tourist Office symbol had regular opening hours and the pale one didn't. Either way, it was right there!

And the ordinary level paper is supposed to be way easier. That's why an A will only get them 60 points.

Mysteriouschic

apkbarry wrote: »

Are you sure this is right?
I thought it was
A - Core
B - Crust
C - Asthenosphere
D - Mantle

Otherwise I know I got it wrong..

Thats what I put down too. Is that cone even in the book?

Mysteriouschic

flyaway. wrote: »

The opening hours thing was on the legend that was on the back of the map they gave you. I think the filled in Tourist Office symbol had regular opening hours and the pale one didn't. Either way, it was right there!

And the ordinary level paper is supposed to be way easier. That's why an A will only get them 60 points.

I think I ticked yes anyway as a random guess I was just thinking they probably work 9-5. Yeah I guess so , an then they make the honours rock hard .
The other years weren't as bad.

LittleMissLost

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

I think I ticked yes anyway as a random guess I was just thinking they probably work 9-5. Yeah I guess so , an then they make the honours rock hard .
The other years weren't as bad.

Lads, (Not just you) That was EASY!! A 10 year old could do it! All you had to do was find the office, turn over the map and see that that symbol said "regular opening hours". I don't get what everyone is going on about with that question!!! You don't need to have ever done LC Geography to look at a map & key

Mysteriouschic

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Lads, (Not just you) That was EASY!! A 10 year old could do it! All you had to do was find the office, turn over the map and see that that symbol said "regular opening hours". I don't get what everyone is going on about with that question!!! You don't need to have ever done LC Geography to look at a map & key

I didn't think it would be written there. But do you don't expect a question about if the tourist works hours to appear in the geography exam paper, that could throw anyone off they wouldn't be thinking that would come up .

LittleMissLost

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

I didn't think it would be written there. But do you don't expect a question about if the tourist works hours to appear in the geography exam paper, that could throw anyone off they wouldn't be thinking that would come up .

We did it in 2nd year.............

166man

LittleMissLost wrote: »

What the HELL is "Striations"?! :L

And "Iberian Peninsula".. What?!

Rock types in Ireland, kicking myself now! What were the right answers? I know Basalt was up the north but sin é

Duhh

A striation is the grooves left in the surface below the glacier, they are made from the rocks that have become part of the glacier rubbing and scraping the surface, experts use them to determine the direction from which the glacier came from.

Probably of little use to you now though!!:D

RMD

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

I didn't think it would be written there. But do you don't expect a question about if the tourist works hours to appear in the geography exam paper, that could throw anyone off they wouldn't be thinking that would come up .

If a symbol is on the map it's in the legend. If you aren't sure of the symbol look at the legend. The green tourist office symbolises a normal opening hours tourist office, a white symbolises a restricted hours opening office. If anything, it was one of the simpler questions.

This is exactly what they were trying to do this year, stop people trying to expect what will come up and instead catch people out and make them use their heads. 1 example of which is the geocology title "How do economic activities impact a biome", it was just a reworded version of "How do human activities impact a biome" yet it threw so many people off.

Sm4shbox

Does anybody have the right answers to Q7 ON LANDFORMS?