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What is a coastal sediment cell?
A sediment cell is a coastal system bounded by features that restrict major sediment transfer. Inputs, stores, transfers and outputs within it form a sediment budget.
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After rainforest clearance, annual rainfall is unchanged but river peaks rise. Which mechanism best explains this?
Canopy and roots formerly stored and recycled water. Clearance and compaction reduce those pathways and may increase overland flow, shortening lag time and raising peaks.
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A former mining town attracts remote workers after gaining fast broadband. Why does this show shifting flows shaping place?
Digital infrastructure enables new labour and capital flows, changing local demand, population and representations. Effects may include opportunity and displacement, depending on who benefits.
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Landscape systems
Correct answer: A largely self-contained section of coast within which sediment sources, transfers and sinks are linked
A sediment cell is a coastal system bounded by features that restrict major sediment transfer. Inputs, stores, transfers and outputs within it form a sediment budget.
Earth's life support systems
Correct answer: Reduced interception and evapotranspiration plus soil disturbance increase rapid runoff
Canopy and roots formerly stored and recycled water. Clearance and compaction reduce those pathways and may increase overland flow, shortening lag time and raising peaks.
Changing spaces; making places
Correct answer: Technology, people, income and ideas alter housing, services, demographics and connections beyond the town
Digital infrastructure enables new labour and capital flows, changing local demand, population and representations. Effects may include opportunity and displacement, depending on who benefits.
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01Landscape systems
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Dryland biological crusts and sparse plants stabilise surfaces but recover slowly. Repeated disturbance increases sediment availability and can redirect flows, affecting dunes and downwind loess deposition.
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02Earth's life support systems
Specification reference: 2
Remote sensing detects spatial and temporal patterns, but algorithms infer variables and may be affected by cloud or resolution. Ground observations test accuracy and explain mechanisms; both require consistent long-term records.
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03Changing spaces; making places
Specification reference: 3
Success is multidimensional and depends on objectives. Time-series and comparison evidence should test material outcomes, perceptions, inclusion, displacement and whether change would have occurred anyway.
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04Global connections
Specification reference: 4
Governance effectiveness is multidimensional and contested. Evidence must connect strategies to security, legitimacy, justice and development while identifying uneven outcomes and plausible alternative causes.
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05Geographical debates
Specification reference: 5
The atmosphere is shared, so unilateral action cannot fully protect one state. Durable cooperation needs transparent commitments, finance, technology, verification and fair burden sharing across scales.
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06Investigative geography
Specification reference: 6
Relevant literature anchors the question in geographical understanding and reveals established methods or gaps. The learner must apply it critically rather than predetermine results.
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07Geographical skills
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The negative sign shows inverse ordering and magnitude shows strength. Significance supports rejection of the null association at the selected level, subject to assumptions.
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OCR · Geography A-Level · A Level · Geography · H481
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