Section 2.

Developing inquiry questions

Develop a range of focus questions to guide your geographical inquiry.

 Use the information from your earlier research to develop focus questions for each of the
research areas in the table below.
 Use the key questions provided to develop your own questions.

Research Area Focus Question Your Focus Questions

Identify the geographical

What is the nature of
process that influences
water scarcity and where
the characteristics of
is it occurring in North
places (the issue) and
Africa?
where it is occurring

What is the spatial

distribution of natural
features and the
Analyse the causes of the
connection between
issue/s
water resources and
human use in the
country?

What are the social,

Analyse the impacts of economic and
the issue/s environmental impacts of
water scarcity?

What management
Identify and analyse the
strategies are being
current management
implemented to manage
strategies being
the issues you have
implemented
identified?

Decide what further What actions can be

action is needed to taken in response to the
better manage the issue water scarcity issue?