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Junior Cycle Geography: Mass movement
How often Mass movement comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years
Mass movement, Common Level(6 marks)
Quick ones on Mass movement.
(a)Mass movement is the movement of loose material downslope, caused by?
- Wind
- Gravity
- Tides
(b)The layer of loose weathered rock and soil lying on top of bedrock is?
- Magma
- Humus
- Regolith
(c)Which is the SLOWEST type of mass movement?
- Soil creep
- Landslide
- Mudflow
Show the answers
(a) Gravity
(b) Regolith
(c) Soil creep
Common Level
Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Q5C, Q5D |
| 2025 | Q3C |
| 2024 | Q3A, Q3B |
| 2023 | Q8B, Q8C |
| 2022 | Not asked |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
More Mass movement questions
Mass movement, 3 marks
Why can a mudflow travel so fast?
- The ground is frozen solid all year
- The soil is dry and baked hard
- The soil is saturated with water
Show the answer
The soil is saturated with water
When soil is saturated, water fills the gaps between particles and it loses its grip, so it flows downhill quickly. Heavy rain, snowmelt or eruptions can trigger mudflows.
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
- 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
- Managing surface processes
- Rock exploitation