A Level Geography Quiz 2017 Part 3

17 Questions

Quiz Description

Mindful of the increasing quest for knowledge by students, most students always have a serious problem when it comes to the examination sector. Concerning the subject in question, Geography, which is the science of science in examining everything related to the globe and composition of what is happening on the surface of natural phenomena and humans.

No matter how you (student) prepared extensively for an exam, if you don’t attempt past questions then your efforts are somehow meaningless. So, it's integral for you to attempt past GCE questions.

Within our framework, we have prepared a quiz of 20 questions. Keep in mind that this quiz is based on the CGCE syllabus, and the questions are based on past GCE questions.

Good luck!!!

1:

Study the Table showing changes in population and food resource over time

At what time will the population trap occur?


<p>Study the Table showing changes in population and food resource over time </p><p></p><p>At what time will the population trap occur? </p>
Correct
  • 1:
    T4
  • 2:
    T1
  • 3:
    T2
  • 4:
    T3
2:

Which of the following best describes the regular daily movement of people from their residences to their work places and back?


Correct
  • 1:
    Daily mobility
  • 2:
    Commuting
  • 3:
    Periodic movement
  • 4:
    Daily circulation
3:

which of the following is not acharacteristic of shifting cultivation?


Correct
  • 1:
    Crops are often grown on cleared forest land
  • 2:
    It rarely occurs in areas of high population density
  • 3:
    Crops are grown in rotation
  • 4:
    Is not a type of permanent cultivation
4:

Some features on agricultural location with distance from the city or market include:

1) Intensity of production increases with distance from the market.

2) Economic rent decreases with distance from the market.

3) Perishable products are cultivated very close to the city centre

4) Economic rent increases with distance from the market

5) Intensity of production decreases with increase distance from the city or market.

Which of these features is applicable to the Von Thunen’s theory on agricultural location?


Correct
  • 1:
    1 and 4 only
  • 2:
    2, 3 and 4 only
  • 3:
    3,4, 2, and 1 only
  • 4:
    2, 3 and 5 only.
5:

Which of the following most accurately describes a critical isodapane?

1. Carrying timber by trucks to the port of Douala from the forest in the East Region

2. Digging for gold in forest of the East Region

3. Teaching Mathematics to the students of GBHS Bonaberi

4. Converting harvested cotton into fiber threads in Maroua


Correct
  • 1:
    1 and 2
  • 2:
    1 and 3
  • 3:
    3 and 4
  • 4:
    2 and 3
6:

A certain manufactured item is produced using two raw materials in a certain region. The material index of the manufactured product is more than 1. The least cost location for
the factory will be?


Correct
  • 1:
    Near the raw material
  • 2:
    Anywhere in the region
  • 3:
    Near the market
  • 4:
    In between the market and the raw material
7:

Which of the following is not a characteristic of minimally connected networks?


Correct
  • 1:
    Number of edges is less than number of vertices
  • 2:
    The network is expensive to build but cheaper to use.
  • 3:
    The removal of one edge totally disconnects one part of the network from the rest
  • 4:
    Journeys are usually long, slow, tedious and costly.
8:

Water as a site factor for rural settlement location provides all of the following except
one. Which is he exception?


Correct
  • 1:
    Transport facility
  • 2:
    HEP generation
  • 3:
    Domestic uses
  • 4:
    Irrigation for agriculture.
9:

In which pair of urban settlements are leisure parks found in Cameroon.


Correct
  • 1:
    Bafoussam and Maroua
  • 2:
    Yaounde and Limbe
  • 3:
    Kumba and Bamenda
  • 4:
    Maroua and Douala
10:

Which land use occupies the most accessible location within the city?


Correct
  • 1:
    Industrial
  • 2:
    Commercial
  • 3:
    Recreational
  • 4:
    Residential
11:

In the central place theory, six lower order (dependent) places located at the angles of hexagons will represent which of the following K- values?


Correct
  • 1:
    K7
  • 2:
    K3
  • 3:
    K4
  • 4:
    49
12:

Using the rank-size rule formula Pn= 1/nth of the largest settlement, what would be the
population of the third largest city in a country whose largest city is 1,000,000 inhabitants


Correct
  • 1:
    333,333
  • 2:
    50,000
  • 3:
    250,000
  • 4:
    250,000
13:

Which of the following best describes the maximum distance that people will travel to
purchase goods and services offered by a central place?


Correct
  • 1:
    Range of goods and services
  • 2:
    The maximum number of people who travel to purchase goods and services in a central Place.
  • 3:
    The number of goods and services present in a central place for people to travel and buy
  • 4:
    The cost of travelling to the central place to purchase goods and services.
14:

Which of the following best describes the process whereby an increasing proportion of the population lives in urban areas.


Correct
  • 1:
    Urban growth
  • 2:
    Urbanization
  • 3:
    Urban expansion
  • 4:
    urban development
15:

The following are some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) supposed to be achieved between 2000 and 2015 in the Less Industrialized Developing countries. There is one among them which is not an MDG. Which is this exception?


Correct
  • 1:
    Reduce by 2/3 the infant mortality rate
  • 2:
    Increase the total length of tarred roads in the less developed countries by 30 percent
  • 3:
    Reduce by 3/4 the maternal mortality rate
  • 4:
    Eliminate gender disparity in education
16:

Among the following countries, one of them is not an emerging economy. Identify the
exception.


Correct
  • 1:
    China
  • 2:
    Brazil
  • 3:
    Egypt
  • 4:
    South Africa
17:

You have been asked by the Mayor of your council to advise on the possible measures the council should undertake to reduce the damage caused by flooding by a stream in a plain at the periphery of the settlement which is rapidly developing. Which of the following measures would you advise them not to undertake?


Correct
  • 1:
    Straighten the course of the meandering stream by cutting through the necks of some meanders
  • 2:
    Deforestate the hills from which the stream rises so that rain water can move away rapidly and not cause flooding
  • 3:
    Widen and deepen the stream channel where possible to increase its cross- sectional area.
  • 4:
    Reinforce the natural embankments and make them higher along banks of the stream.

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