Changing places, rural challenges

This issue’s Question and Answer examines an Eduqas question sequence from the 2018 A-level Component 1 Changing Landscapes and Changing Places exam paper. The questions are from Section B: Changing Places and relate to structural economic change and its causes as well as rural place challenges. Similar themes and questions are found in other specifications (see Box 1). The answers, comments and mark schemes are the responsibility of GEOGRAPHY REVIEW and have neither been provided nor approved by Eduqas. The answers given are not the only possible answers

How severe are the challenges faced by rural places?

This Question and Answer can be used by students studying other A-level specifications, bearing in mind different question styles, command words (‘describe’, used in Question 1, is not used by some other boards), mark tariffs and mark schemes.

■ Edexcel: Topic 4 Shaping Places