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Junior Cycle Geography: Managing surface processes
How often Managing surface processes comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.
Managing surface processes, Common Level(6 marks)
Quick ones on Managing surface processes.
(a)What are groynes on a beach built to do?
- Stop rivers from flooding towns
- Trap sand moved by longshore drift
- Help waves erode the cliffs faster
(b)Which is a way to protect a town from river flooding?
- Clearing all the forests in the upper course
- Building houses on the floodplain
- Building flood walls and embankments
(c)What do large boulders (rock armour) piled at the foot of a cliff do?
- Absorb wave energy to slow erosion
- Hold back river floodwater
- Make the waves erode the cliff faster
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(a) Trap sand moved by longshore drift
(b) Building flood walls and embankments
(c) Absorb wave energy to slow erosion
Common Level
Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Q2C |
| 2024 | Q3C |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Not asked |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
Other Geography topics
- Aerial photographs
- Energy resources
- Life chances of young people
- Migration
- OS map skills
- Rivers
- Rural and urban settlement
- Tourism and transport
- Weather instruments and charts
- Aid to developing countries
- Economic development
- Mass movement
- Plate tectonics and fold mountains
- Population and the DTM
- Primary activities and resources
- Urbanisation and urban change
- Weathering and karst
- Climate
- Climate change
- Coasts
- Earthquakes
- Glaciation
- Globalisation
- Rock types
- Secondary activities
- Significant weather events
- Soils
- Volcanoes
- Rock exploitation