ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY


1 Examine the table below, which gives information about a developed and a developing country. (a) State which country – A or B – is developing. (b) List two indicators from the table that helped you make your decision. (c) The rate of population growth in each country does not correspond precisely to the birth rate minus the death rate in that country. Attempt to explain this. (Questions (a) and (b): LC Ordinary Level)


Indicator


Area (sq. km.) Population


GDP per capita ($US) Life expectancy Literacy rate


Birth rate (per thousand) Death rate (per thousand) Population growth


Rail tracks in the country (km) Highest point (m)


Country A Country B 923,768


70,280


129,934,911 4,064,676 $840 50.6


$45,100 77.6


57.1% 39.22 14.10 2.54% 3,557 2,419


99.0% 16.7 6.1


1.16% 3,312 1,014


2 Examine the data in the table below. Using graph paper, draw a suitable graph to illustrate the data.


(LC Higher Level – 20 marks) Country A Country B


Primary 6% 45% Secondary 24% 30% Tertiary


70% 25%


Offi cial marking scheme for question 2 Title of graph


Use of graph paper Scaled axis


= 2 marks = 2 marks = 2 marks


Six items illustrated at 2 marks each (graded) = 12 marks Overall presentation 2 marks graded Total = 20 marks


= 2 marks 3


Examine the impact of colonialism on a developing economy that you have studied. (Frequently asked at LC Higher and Ordinary Levels)


4 Examine the impact of colonialism on a developing economy that you have studied and on its adjustment to globalisation.


(Repeatedly asked at LC Higher and Ordinary Levels)


5 Describe two ways in which First World countries and the global economy could act with more justice towards a named developing country that you have studied


6 (a) Name one developed and one developing economy that you have studied. (b) In the case of each of the economies named in (a) explain one problem associated with each.


3838 (LC Ordinary Level)


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