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Paper 2 Advanced Physical Options
October/November 2011
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level
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30 °S
Equator
30 °N
Key
tropical
rainforest
Central
America
North
America
South
America
Africa
Europe
Main areas of tropical rainforest
Fig. 1 for Question 1
India
China
Australia
2
3
Fig. 2 for Question 3
Some coastal landforms
beach
saltmarsh
headland
spit
prevailing
wind direction
sea
Fig. 3 for Question 5
Some causes of the Galtur Avalanche in 1999
Lake Bodensee
N
Germany
Avalanche Galtur, Western
Austria, 23rd Feb 1999.
38 killed.
Background information:
Liechtenstein
Inn
Bludenz
n
Switzerland
Three severe storms
brought warm moist air
which, when meeting cold
Arctic air gave record
snowfall levels. Very strong
winds piled the snow up on
the steep mountain sides.
Innsbruck
In
Yaduz
Arlberg
Pass
Landeck
Galtur
Italy
Key
glaciers
0
50
The ‘slab’ of ice and snow
that broke away from the
mountainside was 500 m
wide and 170 000 tonnes.
km
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Table 1 for Question 7
Main locations of deserts and some examples
Locations
Examples
Subtropical
Sahara, Sind, Kalahari, Great Australian
Continental
Gobi, Takla Makan Desert
Rainshadow
Deserts to lee of Sierra Nevada, Cascades,
and Andes
Coastal
Coastal Peru and southwestern Africa
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