BGS 212

BOMET UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
REGULAR

SEMESTER I, 2021/2022 ACADEMIC YEAR

SECOND-YEAR EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
(GEOGRAPHY)

BGS 212: SPATIAL ORGANISATION

STREAM: BA (Geog) Date : 15th Dec, 2021

DURATION: 3 Hours TIME: 14:00 – 17:00

INSTRUCTIONS

(i) Answer questions ONE and ANY other THREE questions.

(ii) Use diagrams and sketch maps whenever they serve to illustrate an answer.
(iii)Do not write on the question paper.

Question One
(a) Explain how geography may be described as positivist (10 marks)
(b) List the causes associated with the unsustainability of the environment (7 marks)
(c) List 5 attributes that have spatially diffused as a result of the influx of the Somali and the
Sudanese refugees in Kenya (5 marks)
(d) State the three fundamental assumptions offered by Political ecology that affect spatial
organization? (3 Marks)

Question two
Using appropriate examples, explore the circumstances that inform the taking place of any
spatial interaction (15 marks)

Question three
In detail, discuss the involvement of The Environmental Perception and Behavioral
Geographers (EPBG) Group in researching Environmental Perception? (15 Marks)

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Question four
Using Kenyan examples illustrate how small towns have offered themselves in national
development (15 marks)

Question five
(a) How does the equator affect world population distribution? (3 Marks)
(b) Why do many people live in the temperate climate region of the world? (7 Marks)
(c) Why few people are found in the North Pole and the South Pole regions of the world? (5
Marks)

Question Six
(a) What led to Pastoralism? (2 Marks)
(b) What are the social organization of pastoralists? (4 Marks)
(c) What are the perceptions about Pastoralism in both the old age period and the modern
world? (3 Marks)
(d) Briefly discuss the constraints faced by pastoralists? (6 Marks)

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