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This document contains a geography exam with multiple choice questions covering various topics in physical geography, economic geography, and population, settlement, and trade. The questions assess knowledge of topics like latitude and longitude, landscape features formed by weathering, weather patterns that cause coastal breezes, river landforms, climate station data, types of mining, changes in energy sources over time, measures of population density, reasons for urban migration, factors that improve squatter settlements, population growth rates, and locating suitable sites for homes and workplaces based on socioeconomic factors.

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Geography November 2000 Paper 1

This document contains a geography exam with multiple choice questions covering various topics in physical geography, economic geography, and population, settlement, and trade. The questions assess knowledge of topics like latitude and longitude, landscape features formed by weathering, weather patterns that cause coastal breezes, river landforms, climate station data, types of mining, changes in energy sources over time, measures of population density, reasons for urban migration, factors that improve squatter settlements, population growth rates, and locating suitable sites for homes and workplaces based on socioeconomic factors.

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ZIMBABWE SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

GCE O’ LEVEL

GEOGRAPHY

PAPER 1

NOVEMBER 2000
Physical Environment

13. The diagram shows lines of latitude and longitude on the northern
hemisphere

Which one of the following angles shown on the diagram above is longitude
300W?

a. angle XOQ
b. angle XOZ
c. angle NOX
d. angle XOY
14.

The diagram shows a landscape formed by weathering in limestone areas.

The features marked X and Y are called

a. rift valley and horst


b. grises and clints
c. ancillaries and syndicate
d. wadis and playas

15. Students visiting a volcanic area saw a tourism of hot water and steam
ejected into the air at regular intervals. What did they see?

a. a geyser
b. a crater lake
c. an ash cone
d. a hot spring
16. During a period a generally calm, settled weather, a coastal areas
experiences a breeze blowing inland from the sea for several hours.

Which diagram A, B, C or D shows the conditions which cause the breeze?

17. The diagram shows a river the wing across the valley stage.
At which one of the positions marked A, B, C or D is a river cliff likely to develop?

18.

The above cross section shows

a. an eroded anticline
b. a rejuvenated syncline
c. a rift valley
d. river terraces

19. She wakened to hear the rule lashing against the windows. During the night
the South West wind had strengthened to some 40 knots, the temperature
had fallen to 60C and the sky was almost covered.
Which of the stations A, B, C or D represents the description?

20. Dykes, sills and caldered are all features of

a. flood plain erosion


b. land reclamation
c. volcanic activity
d. earth movements

21. What instrument is used to measures the relative humidity of the air?

a. wet and dry bulb themometer


b. rain guage
c. mercury barometre
d. maximum and minimum thermometer

22. The amount of trees covered in savanna grasslands tends to increase towards
the equatorial zones because of

a. increasing average monthly temperature


b. a shorter dry season
c. a decrease in the number of herbivores
d. decreasing annual rainfall
23.

The situation shown in the diagram above is caused by

a. lava flow
b. alluvial deposition
c. soil creep
d. wind erosion

24. Study the diagram below


A solution to the problem of unbalanced nutrient cycling would be

a. aforestation
b. contour ploughing
c. gully tilling
d. deforestation

25. A student went to read the maximum – minimum thermometer at a school


weather station and found it as shown in the diagram
What was the mean (average) temperature for the station?

a. 100C
b. 150C
c. 200C
d. 250C

Economic Geography

26.

The type of mining shown in the diagram above is

a. soil
b. alluvial caning
c. open set
d. shaft
33. Study the diagrams which show changes in energy sources in the USA
between 1987 and 1989.

Which energy source showed the highest increase between 1987 and 1989?

a. natural gas
b. hydroelectricity
c. nuclear power
d. petroleum

Population, Settlement and Trade

34. The number of people in an area divided by the size of the area is a
measure of

a. overpopulation
b. life expectancy
c. population density
d. birth rate

35. The table shows the results of a survey carried out in a developing country to
find out the reasons why heads of households were moving into the city.
Heads of household % Reason for moving into the city
68 X
13 To start a business
12 To join a member of the family
4 For education
3 Because of a family quarrel
100

Reason X is to

a. find cheaper housing


b. find entertainment
c. be nearer to a hospital
d. find empowerment

36. Which one of the following provision by a government would have the
greatest most in improving the quality of the squatter settlements?

a. a bus service into the city centre


b. clean and safe water supply
c. shape for renting
d. recreation facilities

37. The map shows the location of four proposed sites for a new villages
Which location A, B, C or D is the most suitable?

38. The graph shows changes in the birth and death rate in a country over a
long period?

At which stage A, B, C or D was the total population growing fastest?


38. The diagram shows the units of production per head of population and
birth rates for four countries. The death rate is the same for all the
countries.

Which country A, B, C or D is less likely to suffer from problems of over


population?
40. The map shows for possible locations of Mrs Dube’s home and workplace
in a city.

Mrs Dube is the manageress of a department store and lives in a modern


detached house with a large certain. Which letter A, B, C or D is most likely to
represent both the workplace and home?

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