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The main landforms associated with these processes: past paper questions

48 real questionsasked in 5 of the last 10 exam series2019–2025usually: Describe, Suggest, Explain, Complete, Identify

Real questions on the main landforms associated with these processes

The newest 20 of 48 written questions. Open one to see it on the real paper.

  1. 0460/23 · October/November 2025 · Q1e(ii)[2]

    Describe the relief to the south of the river.

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  2. 0460/11 · May/June 2025 · Q5a(ii)[2]

    Describe the impact of the global pandemic in 2020 on the number of tourists visiting Boston in the USA. You should use statistics.

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  3. 0460/11 · May/June 2025 · Q5a(iii)[3]

    Suggest reasons why tourism is important to the local economy of Boston.

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  4. 0460/22 · May/June 2025 · Q3a[4]

    Using Fig. 3.1, give four pieces of evidence which suggest this is a commercial farm.

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  5. 0460/22 · May/June 2025 · Q3b[4]

    Using Fig. 3.2, describe the features of the farm.

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  6. 0460/23 · May/June 2025 · Q3a(i)[4]

    Complete the labels on Fig. 3.1 to identify the four features of the waterfall. (i) hard rock river soft rock

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  7. 0460/11 · October/November 2024 · Q3b(i)[3]

    Describe the features of the valley shown in Fig. 3.2.

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  8. 0460/12 · February/March 2024 · Q3c[7]

    Explain how an oxbow lake is formed. You should include a labelled diagram(s).

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  9. 0460/22 · February/March 2024 · Q1e[2]

    Describe the relief of the Puy de Dôme.

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  10. 0460/12 · February/March 2023 · Q5a(i)[1]

    Complete Fig. 5.1 by plotting the following information for Jamaica: There are 400 000 jobs in the tourist industry. 30% of total employment is in the tourist industry.

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  11. 0460/12 · February/March 2023 · Q5a(ii)[2]

    Put the following countries in rank order according to the number of jobs in the tourist industry. Namibia New Zealand St Lucia most jobs in the tourist industry least jobs in the tourist industry

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  12. 0460/12 · February/March 2023 · Q5a(iii)[3]

    Use Fig. 5.1 only to identify the country from the list below in which you think the tourist industry is most important. Give reasons for your answer. Cayman Islands Bahamas Maldives Name of country Reasons for choice

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  13. 0460/22 · February/March 2023 · Q6a(i)[1]

    What percentage of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s employment is in secondary industry? %

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  14. 0460/22 · February/March 2023 · Q6a(ii)[1]

    Plot and label China on Fig. 6.1, using the information below: Primary 25% Secondary 25% Tertiary 50%

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  15. 0460/22 · February/March 2023 · Q6a(iii)[3]

    Using Fig. 6.1 only, identify three ways in which the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s employment structure is different from France’s.

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  16. 0460/22 · February/March 2023 · Q6b[3]

    Why do MEDCs have a high proportion of people employed in tertiary industry?

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  17. 0460/22 · October/November 2022 · Q6a[2]

    Using Fig. 6.1, complete the table for middle income countries below:

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  18. 0460/22 · October/November 2022 · Q6b[4]

    Explain why the employment structure of a country changes as it develops.

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  19. 0460/22 · October/November 2022 · Q6c[2]

    State two economic benefits of increasing globalisation.

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  20. 0460/13 · May/June 2022 · Q4a(iv)[4]

    Draw and label two diagrams to show the likely differences between the cross-sections of the valleys at A and B on Fig. 4.1. Cross-section at A Cross-section at B

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What examiners said

Most candidates scored 1 or both marks for this question. Common errors were reading the graph without enough precision or omitting ‘thousands’.

— Examiner report, May/June 2025, 0460/11 Q5(a)(ii) (Cambridge)

Most candidates scored marks for this question. All mark scheme ideas were regularly seen.

— Examiner report, May/June 2025, 0460/11 Q5(a)(iii) (Cambridge)

This question was generally answered well, despite few candidates recognising Figure 3.1 as being a photograph of a tea plantation. This did not mean, however, that they could not give four pieces of evidence to suggest this was commercial farm. The best responses were those that were succinct. Most identified the large area of land devoted to crops and that it was intensive with every part of the...

— Examiner report, May/June 2025, 0460/22 Q3(a) (Cambridge)

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