Free Practice Questions for LC Geography

Core Unit 1: Physical environment

Practice covers plate tectonics, crustal construction and destruction, volcanoes and earthquakes, the rock cycle (igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks), physical and chemical weathering, mass movement, and landforms shaped by fluvial, coastal, glacial and aeolian processes, plus human interaction such as mining, quarrying and coastal defence.

Core Unit 2: Regional geography

Practice covers what makes a region, Irish core-periphery contrasts (South and East versus Border, Midland and West), European case regions such as the Paris Basin and the Mezzogiorno, and a wider continental or sub-continental region, linking physical setting, economic activity, population and development.

Core Unit 3: Skills and Geographical Investigation

Practice covers Ordnance Survey map skills, aerial photograph interpretation, graphs and tables, sampling and data gathering, primary versus secondary sources, and the stages of the Geographical Investigation report (aim/hypothesis, planning, gathering, results, conclusions and evaluation) that contributes 20% of the grade.

Electives: Economic and human environment

Practice covers Elective Unit 4 themes (primary, secondary and tertiary activities, energy, tourism, multinational companies and development) and Elective Unit 5 themes (population structure and change, migration, rural and urban settlement, and urban problems and planning).

Optional units (Higher Level themes)

Practice introduces Higher Level optional ideas from global interdependence and development, geoecology (soils and biomes), culture and identity, and atmosphere-ocean processes (climate systems, weather and ocean-atmosphere interaction) that appear in the essay-style option section.