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Junior Cycle Geography: Aerial photographs

How often Aerial photographs comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Aerial photographs, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Aerial photographs.

(a)An aerial photo taken at an angle, showing the horizon, is?
  1. Vertical
  2. Oblique
  3. Plan view
(b)On a VERTICAL aerial photo, how should you describe locations?
  1. Left and right only
  2. Foreground and background
  3. Using compass directions
(c)An oblique aerial photo is divided into how many location zones?
  1. 9
  2. 6
  3. 4
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(a) Oblique

(b) Using compass directions

(c) 9

Your turn: Common Level questions on Aerial photographs.

Common Level

Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q4B, Q8A
2025Q2B
2024Q8A
2023Q5A
2022Q2B, Q5B, Q7A

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Aerial photographs questions

Aerial photographs, 3 marks

Why do fields at the back of an oblique photo look smaller than those at the front?

  1. The fields there really are much smaller
  2. The photo was taken vertically
  3. They are further from the camera
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They are further from the camera

On an oblique photo the scale changes: things in the background look smaller because they are further away. So you cannot measure distance accurately on it.

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