Almost 60,000 sixth-year students across the country began the Leaving Cert on Wednesday.
This year, due to Covid, students were given a choice between sitting the written exam or accepting accredited grades.
The majority of Leaving Cert students have chosen to do both the written exam and accept accredited grades as they will be awarded the highest grade of the two.
The Leaving Certificate Geography paper was sat by students this morning, but how much do you remember from the paper?
Here are some of the questions for the 2021 Leaving Cert geography paper:
Plate Tectonics
Examine the diagram above and answer each of the following questions.
(i) Match each of the letters A, B, C and D with the term that best matches it in the table below.
Convection currents
Ocean trench
Fold mountains
Focus of an earthquake
(ii) Name one example of a mountain range formed by folding found outside of Ireland.
(iii) Name the type of plate boundary illustrated in the diagram above.
The Physical Environment
Examine the photographs above and answer each of the following questions.
(i) Match each of the photograph’s A, B, C and D with the feature that best matches it in the table below.
(ii) Indicate, by ticking the correct box, whether each of the features in the table below is most associated with the processes of erosion, deposition or weathering.
Rocks
Examine the map above and answer each of the following questions.
(i) Match each of the locations A, B and C on the map above with the type of rock most associated with this location in the table below.
(ii) Indicate, by ticking the correct box, whether each of the types of rock named in the table below is an example of an igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic rock.
(iii) Name the sedimentary rock that each of the following existed as before they were changed by heat and/or pressure.
Marble:
Quartzite:
