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Free AQA GCSE Geography
Practice Paper

8 mixed-difficulty practice questions in the style of real AQA GCSE papers — answers, mark-scheme-style explanations, and the official exam structure all on one page.

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What the real AQA GCSE Geography paper looks like

Paper 1
Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes, ~70-100 marks. Covers Topics 1-4 of the specification.
Paper 2
Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes, ~70-100 marks. Covers Topics 5-8 of the specification.
Paper 3
Where applicable — e.g. Combined Science, Languages. Includes synoptic and applied questions.
Total exam time: ~3 hours across two or three papers.
Grading: Grades: 9 (highest) to 1 (lowest), with U (ungraded). A grade of 4 is a standard pass; 5 is a strong pass.

Mini practice paper: 8 questions

Mixed-difficulty questions from across the Geography syllabus. Tap "Show answer" after each to check yourself.

Q1 · Difficulty 1/3

What is an environmental impact of a development scheme?

  1. Its effect on the number of jobs created
  2. Its effect on the natural world, including habitats, air and water quality and carbon emissions
  3. Its effect on local house prices
  4. Its effect on how people feel about the area
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✓ Answer: B — Its effect on the natural world, including habitats, air and water quality and carbon emissions
Award 1 mark. Strong answers cover social, economic and environmental impacts together.
Q2 · Difficulty 1/3

Which is a renewable source of energy?

  1. Coal
  2. Natural gas
  3. Oil
  4. Wind power
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✓ Answer: D — Wind power
Wind power is renewable — it will not run out and produces no carbon at the point of use. Coal, gas and oil are finite fossil fuels.
Q3 · Difficulty 1/3

What is a social impact of a development scheme?

  1. Its effect on the profits of local businesses
  2. Its effect on wildlife habitats
  3. Its effect on air and water quality
  4. Its effect on people's lives, such as housing, health, jobs and community
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✓ Answer: D — Its effect on people's lives, such as housing, health, jobs and community
Award 1 mark. Economic impacts concern money and environmental impacts the natural world.
Q4 · Difficulty 1/3

What is a biome?

  1. A very large-scale ecosystem, such as tropical rainforest or tundra
  2. The non-living part of an ecosystem
  3. A single food chain within a habitat
  4. The soil layer beneath a forest
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✓ Answer: A — A very large-scale ecosystem, such as tropical rainforest or tundra
Award 1 mark. Biomes are distributed in broad bands determined largely by climate.
Q5 · Difficulty 1/3

What is a fieldwork enquiry question?

  1. A question asked of members of the public in a survey
  2. A question printed in the resource booklet
  3. A geographical question that fieldwork is designed to investigate and answer
  4. A question about the accuracy of a map
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✓ Answer: C — A geographical question that fieldwork is designed to investigate and answer
Award 1 mark. It should be focused enough to be answered with the data that can actually be collected.
Q6 · Difficulty 1/3

What is a natural hazard?

  1. Any unusual weather event
  2. A hazard created entirely by human activity
  3. A natural event that threatens people or property
  4. An event that has already caused deaths
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✓ Answer: C — A natural event that threatens people or property
Award 1 mark. It becomes a natural disaster once it actually causes significant damage or loss of life.
Q7 · Difficulty 1/3

The growth in the proportion of a country's population living in towns and cities is called:

  1. Deindustrialisation
  2. Suburbanisation only
  3. Urbanisation
  4. Migration only
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✓ Answer: C — Urbanisation
Urbanisation is the rising share of people living in urban areas, driven by rural-urban migration and natural increase, and is happening fastest in LICs and NEEs.
Q8 · Difficulty 1/3

The calm, cloud-free centre of a tropical storm where air sinks is called the:

  1. Eye
  2. Eyewall
  3. Front
  4. Trough
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✓ Answer: A — Eye
The eye is the calm centre where air descends, giving clear skies and light winds. The eyewall surrounding it has the most intense winds and rainfall.
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AQA GCSE Geography FAQ

What does the AQA GCSE Geography exam look like?
The AQA GCSE Geography exam is structured across 3 components. Paper 1: Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes, ~70-100 marks. Covers Topics 1-4 of the specification. Paper 2: Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes, ~70-100 marks. Covers Topics 5-8 of the specification. Paper 3: Where applicable — e.g. Combined Science, Languages. Includes synoptic and applied questions. Total exam time: ~3 hours across two or three papers.
Can I download a free AQA GCSE Geography past paper?
Real AQA past papers are published directly by AQA on their official website. Kramizo doesn't redistribute copyrighted past papers, but we do generate free AI-written practice papers in the exact same style — same command words, same difficulty tier, same mark conventions. Use this practice paper as warm-up, then time yourself on official past papers before exam day.
How is AQA GCSE Geography graded?
Grades: 9 (highest) to 1 (lowest), with U (ungraded). A grade of 4 is a standard pass; 5 is a strong pass. Kramizo's practice questions are tagged with difficulty 1-3 mapping roughly to the lower, middle, and top grade boundaries you'll encounter in the real exam.