Economic Geography 2
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CAMEROON GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION BOARD
TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION EXAMINATION
JUNE XXXX INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
Subject Title ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Subject Code No. 5051
Paper No TWO
Two and a half hours
Answer FIVE questions choosing at least TWO from each section.
All questions carry equal marks.
The maps for Questions 5 if used should be fastened to the Answer booklet opposite the answer.
Begin each question on a new page of the Answer booklet.
This paper carries 60% of the total weighted marks.
You are reminded of the necessity for good English and orderly presentation in your answers
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SECTION A
LESS ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED WORLD
Unless otherwise stated in the question, examples in this section must be drawn from the Less
Economically Developed World
1. a) Explain FIVE characteristics of commercial plantation agriculture. (10 marks)
b) Identify FIVE differences between subsistence farming and market gardening. (5 marking)
c) Choose ONE of these crops: cocoa, coffee, cotton or oil palm and state FIVE conditions
necessary for its cultivation. (5 marks)
(20 marks)
2. a) Using Cameroon as your example, name where the following animal husbandry systems
are practiced:
i) TWO modern poultry farms
ii) FOUR pig farming stations
iii) TWO cattle ranches (8 marks)
b) Name FOUR animal products and their corresponding uses. (4 marks)
c) Explain FOUR reasons why livestock grazing is not extensively carried out in the forest
zone of Cameroon. (8 marks)
(20 marks)
3. a) State FIVE methods of fishing (5 marks)
b) Explain FIVE human and physical factors favouring forest exploitation in Cameroon. (10 marks)
c) Give FIVE ways in which mineral exploitation is important to the economy of Cameroon. (5 marks)
(20 marks)
4. a) Using a table, classify the following under PRIMARY, SECONDARY and TERTIARY
Economic activities; banking, tourism, food processing, fishing, teaching, cabinet
making, advertisement, engineering, lumbering, wholesale, transportation, insurance,
mining, nursing, retailing, communication, quarrying, cattle rearing, dairying and
motor vehicle manufacturing. (10 marks)
b) Choose one secondary activity and explain FIVE factors that have favoured
its exploitation. (10 marks)
(20 marks)
5. On the map of Cameroon (Figure 1) provided or on a sketch map of any country you have studied
a) Locate and name:
i) THREE areas of dense population
ii) THREE areas of sparse population
iii) Add a key (7 marks)
b) Choose ONE area of dense population and explain FOUR factors for its high density. (8 marks)
c) State FIVE problems caused by rapid population increase in Cameroon. (5 marks)
(20 marks)
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SECTION B
MORE ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED WORLD
Unless otherwise stated in the question, examples in this section must be drawn from the More
Economically Developed World
6. Fishing is an important economic activity in the MEDCs.
a) For a named country, explain SIX factors that favour the exploitation of the activity. (12 marks)
b) Explain any FOUR ways the activity is important to the economy of the chosen country. (8 marks)
(20 marks)
7. a) Describe each of the following modes of transport common in MEDCs.
i) Cableways
ii) Pipelines
iii) Waterways
iv) Tramp lines
v) Motorways (10 marks)
b) Outline:
i) FIVE advantages of motorways.
ii) FIVE disadvantages of pipelines. (10 marks)
(20 marks)
8. a) Outline TWO causes of each of the following environmental hazards common in MEDCs:
i) Floods
ii) Drought
iii) Pollution
iv) Traffic congestion
v) Deforestation (10 marks)
b) Select any THREE of the hazards in (a) above and give THREE solutions for each hazard? (10 marks)
(20 marks)
9. Choose ONE of the following activities in MEDCs:
i) Automobile manufacturing
ii) Ship building
iii) Textile manufacturing
a) In a named country, state ONE industrial region where the activity is carried out. (2 marks)
b) Explain SIX factors favouring the growth of the activity you have chosen in a named
Country in (a) above. (12 marks)
c) State SIX problems faced by the industry you have chosen. (6 marks)
(20 marks)
10. a) Differentiate between renewable and non-renewable resources. (4 marks)
b) Arrange the following sources of energy into renewable and non-renewable resources:
coal, wood, solar, geothermal, hydroelectricity, natural gas, nuclear, biomass, tidal wave,
wind, petroleum and ethanol. (6 marks)
c) With reference to a named country, choose any ONE energy resource in (b) and explain
FIVE ways it is important to the country. (10 marks)
(20 marks)
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Figure 1: Map for question 5a
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