Geography DSE Question Trend
FBQ
2019
Syllabus:
 Managing coastal environment
 Changing industrial location
 Building a sustainable city
Selected chapter:
 Managing coastal environment
2020 2021
Syllabus: Syllabus:
 Managing coastal environment  Opportunities and risks
 Building a sustainable city  Building a sustainable city
 Combating famine  Combating famine
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DBQ
Q 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Opportunities and River and coast River and coast Opportunities and River and coast Opportunities and Opportunities and Opportunities and
1 risks (earthquake) (coastal features (fluvial landform)
risks (tsunamis in (coastal landform) risks (volcanoes) risks (earthquake) risks (earthquake,
/ (93%) (BEST) and management (map extract)
NE Japan and (map extract) (69%) (BEST) (69%) tsunami and
2 in HK) (38%) (23%) Alaska) (75%) (19%) (BEST) volcanic eruption
(BEST) (BEST) in Indonesia)
Sustainable city Industry (iron andOpportunities and River and coast Industry (iron and Sustainable city River and coast Combating famine
(NDA) (map steel industry in risks (rift valley (river) (25%) steel industry in (urban problems; (coastal landform (Sahel)
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extract) (11%) China) (66%)and volcanic China) (46%) urban renewal) and management)
/
(WORST) (WORST) eruption in East (map extract) (map extract)
3
Africa) (55%) (35%) (33%) (BEST)
(BEST)
Combating famine Sustainable city Industry (IT Sustainable city Combating famine Combating famine Sustainable city Sustainable city
3 (Sahel) (66%) (development production plants (new town) (map (Southern (Sahel) (64%) (land use conflict) (urban problems;
/ project) (map in China) (64%) extract) (43%) California) (69%) (WORST) (32%) (WORST) urban renewal
4 extract) (28%) (WORST) (WORST) strategy)
(map extract)
Global warming Disappearing Disappearing Global warming Disappearing Global warming Disappearing Global warming
(33%) green canopy green canopy (58%) (WORST) green canopy (33%) green canopy
(cattle rearing in (human activities (climatic (65%)
the Amazon in the rainforest in characteristics of
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Basin; Brazil and TRF; negative
/
reforestation) evaluation of impacts of human
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(68%) rainforest interference;
adoption) (57%) evaluation of
selective logging)
(67%)

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Essay
Q 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
River and coast Opportunities and Sustainable city
Industry (factors Opportunities and River and coast Industry (iron and River and coast
(flooding; risks (tectonic (suburbanization; affecting the risks (tectonic (physical factors steel industry in (favourable
effectiveness of hazards along new townspatial distribution activities in the affecting the China ) (8%) physical
dam construction) Circum-Pacific development) of iron and steel Himalayan region; removal of beach (WORST) conditions for
5 (14%) (WORST) Belt; effectiveness (11%) (WORST) industry in China; opportunities and sediments in HK; depositional
/ of land use Reform and challenges) (24%) effectiveness of features;
6 zoning) (34%) Opening-up in beach influences of
(BEST) changing the nourishment) different river
spatial (16%) management
distribution) strategies)
(27%)
Industry (mode of Combating famine Combating famine Combating famine Sustainable city Industry Combating famine Industry (factors
production and (Sahel’s physical (climatic (Sahel’s physical (housing problems (characteristics of (physical factors affecting the
locational environmental; constraints of environment; in HK; green global locational leading to famine location of IT
distribution of IT arable farming to farming in effectiveness of belts) (21%) distribution of the in Sahel; industries in the
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industry; increase food Southern biotechnology) (WORST) IT industry; US effectiveness of US; how ICT
/
globalization in supply) (35%) California; (55%) (BEST) government policy GM crops) (63%) facilitates
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leading to multi- effectiveness of in leading to the outsourcing)
point production) irrigation) (49%) expansion of the
(30%) development of IT
industry) (48%)
Disappearing Global warming Global warming Disappearing Global warming Disappearing Global warming Disappearing
green canopy (impact of global (overuse of fossil green canopy (human activities green canopy (reasons for the green canopy
(reasons for the warming on HK; fuels in causing a (negative socio- in increasing the (nutrient cycling increase in GHG (nutrient
rapid effectiveness of rise in global economic impacts concentration of of the tropical emissions in compartments of
7 deforestation; urban greening) temp; evaluation of deforestation; CO2; cooperation rainforest; impacts LDCs; constraints TRF + whether
/ impacts of modern (32%) (WORST) of the use of roles of MDCs in between MDCs of plantation on encountered by plantation or
8 farming practices renewable energy) deforestation) and LDCs) (55%) the nutrient LDCs in reducing shifting cultivation
on TRF’s nutrient (40%) (19%) (WORST) cycling) (36%) GHG emissions) cause greater
cycling) (55%) (29%) changes on the
nutrient
compartments)