Geography Short Questions

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?

PJelly

Must say, I laughed out loud at the "Regular opening hours" question.

PurpleVintage

There's something cute about that diagram . I got the asthenosphere part wrong. Mixed it up with mantle. Don't think I did very well on the Short Questions, there were a few of them that were a bit tricky.

Gotta say, i'll miss Geography. If I end up repeating, i'm certainly taking it up again, it's a very simple straight forward subject imo. Very easy to apply common knowledge as well, so great for waffling.

Sparkie93

for the renewable question i put nuclear as one lol is that right?:D

flyaway.

Sparkie93 wrote: »

for the renewable question i put nuclear as one lol is that right?:D

I don't think so but I might be wrong. I almost but nuclear too but wasn't too sure. I put Solar and Geothermal.

Duda17

I sed wood pellets.. ..?

randylonghorn

Sparkie93 wrote: »

for the renewable question i put nuclear as one lol is that right?:D

I'm afraid not.

flyaway. wrote: »

I put Solar and Geothermal.

Yep.

Duda17 wrote: »

I sed wood pellets.. ..?

An example of biomass, anyway.

Wind power, hydropower (from water e.g. rivers, waves) are other examples of renewable energy.