Geography · Paper 2 · 2008
10 questions 🇹🇿 NECTA ✓ MS3-hour timed simulation · auto-graded · counts toward ranking
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Section A
Distinguish four major physiographic belts in the East African landscape and explain how each belt affects land tenure and farm patterns.
- Explain how each belt affects land tenure and farm patterns. (1 mk)
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Explain four economic incentives or social norms that contribute to persistent high birth rates within certain Tanzanian communities.
- Explain four economic incentives or social norms that contribute to persistent high birth rates within certain Tanzanian communities. (1 mk)
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List four infrastructural or behavioural factors that increase infant mortality in remote Tanzanian villages, and suggest a mitigation action for each.
- Suggest a mitigation action for each. (1 mk)
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Explain the advantages of using electronic distance-measuring devices in land surveys compared with traditional pacing and chain surveys.
- Explain the advantages of using electronic distance-measuring devices in land surveys compared with traditional pacing and chain surveys. (1 mk)
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Discuss four economic outputs or industries sustained by glacially-formed terrain in northern Europe, and why glaciation favored those industries.
- Explain why glaciation favored those industries. (1 mk)
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Examine two direct economic benefits and two social-environmental costs of expanding hospitality and leisure services in Tanzania.
- Examine two social-environmental costs of expanding hospitality and leisure services in Tanzania. (1 mk)
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(a) Give a working definition of environmental contamination. (b) Present a scheme to classify contamination by effect severity and by source type. (c) Provide an example of industrial contamination and one immediate remedial step.
- Give a working definition of environmental contamination. (1 mk)
- Present a scheme to classify contamination by effect severity and by source type. (1 mk)
- Provide an example of industrial contamination and one immediate remedial step. (1 mk)
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(a) Define pollution as used in environmental studies. (b) List four dominant pollution forms affecting coastal towns. (c) Choose one form and explain two short-term impacts on fisheries.
- Define pollution as used in environmental studies. (1 mk)
- List four dominant pollution forms affecting coastal towns. (1 mk)
- Choose one form and explain two short-term impacts on fisheries. (1 mk)
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Identify four engineering and geographic requirements for a commercially viable hydroelectric facility, and briefly explain each.
- Briefly explain each. (1 mk)
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Describe four ways geography teaching prepares students to participate in land-use planning and natural-resource decisions in Tanzania.
- Describe four ways geography teaching prepares students to participate in land-use planning and natural-resource decisions in Tanzania. (1 mk)
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