Christian Brothers College

International General Certificate of Secondary Education

CANDIDATE

NAME

CLASS TEACHER

GEOGRAPHY MID YEAR EXAMINATION

August Session 2021

Form 1 1 hour 45 min

Examiner: M.N MATHE

Moderator: A. MAROVANIDZE

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

Write your name and class in the spaces provided
Write in dark blue or black pen.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, and glue or correction fluid.

THERE ARE SIX (6) QUESTIONS IN THIS PAPER.

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question.

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1. The diagram below Fig. 1 shows the hydrological (Water) cycle.

Fig. 1

(a) Name all of the processes marked 1-8

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 (b) How does deforestation affect the water cycle?
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Study Fig. 2 below showing differences in water usage in Developing and

Developed countries.

Fig.2

i) List two differences in the usage of water in developing and developed

countries.

Difference 1
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Difference 2
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 ii) Give a possible reason for any one of the differences you stated above

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[Total Marks 10]

2. (a) Fig.3 shows the Stevenson Screen, the container used to store instruments at
a weather station. Features of the design have been labelled.

Fig. 3
Choose four of the features labeled on Fig.3. For each of the features you have
chosen, explain why the Stevenson Screen has been designed in this way.

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Feature 1................................................................
Explanation...............................................................................................................
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Feature 2................................................................
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Feature 3................................................................
Explanation.......................................................................................................
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Feature 4................................................................
Explanation.......................................................................................................
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(b) One of the instruments stored inside the Stevenson Screen is the hygrometer (wet
and dry bulb thermometers). This is shown in Fig. 4 below. The readings are used to
calculate the relative humidity using the conversion table, Table 1 below.

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 Fig. 4

Table 1
(i) State the readings of the wet and dry bulb thermometers in Fig. 4
Wet bulb......................................................
Dry bulb....................................................... [2]
ii) Calculate the depression of the wet bulb……………… [2]

iii)Using your answers to (b)(i) and (ii) and Table 1 state the relative
humidity…………………………………………………………..[2]

[Total Marks 10]

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3. a) Study Fig. 5, an extract from the diary of a sailor.

Fig. 5

(i) What is meant by westerly wind?

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(ii) Suggest what the cloud type was at 09.00 hrs. and 14.00 hrs.
Choose from the following list:
cirrus cumulonimbus cumulus stratus

09.00.....................................................................
14.00..................................................................... [2]

(iii) Identify three differences in the weather between the morning and the
afternoon of 29th July.
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 b (i)The sky was overcast and an easterly wind measuring 15 knots was
blowing on the morning of 5 July 2021. In the space provided below draw
a station model to represent weather conditions described above.

[3]
(ii) Name the weather instrument used to measure:
Atmospheric pressure…………………………………………………. [1]

Total 10 marks

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4. a) Study the following information about the weather for one week in January in
Cumbria, UK.

Table 2

i) Name three of the instruments used to collect the data in Table 3.

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ii) (b) Using the information in Table 2 only, describe the relationship between
wind direction and rainfall.
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(c) Look at the information about wind direction on January 30 and 31 shown in Table
3. Plot this information on Fig 5. [2]

Fig 5

iii) Using the information in Table 2, calculate the range of temperature on

January 30. .....................................................°C [2]
iv) Using the information in Table 2, describe the influence of cloud cover on
temperatures.
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 Total 10 marks.

5. Study Fig 6 below showing rainfall formation.

Fig 6

a) (i) Name the type of rainfall shown……………………………………………..[1]

iii) Use information provided to describe how this type of rainfall is

formed………………………………………………………………………………..
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 ii) Use the space provided to draw a well labeled diagram to show the
formation of relief rainfall.

iii) According to the diagram you have drawn above, what forces the warm moist air to
rise? …………………………………………………………………………[1]

iv) Where in Zimbabwe is this type of rainfall likely to occur?

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Total 10 marks.

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 6. Study Fig. 7, which is a climate graph for Belem, a settlement in the tropical
rainforest.

Fig 7

(i) Name one month with over 300 mm of rainfall.

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(ii) Describe two features of the temperatures at Belem which are typical of a rainforest
climate.

i)……………………………………………………………………………………………………

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ii)…………………………………………………………………………………………………

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(iii) Give two reasons why the climate of places like Belem results in the growth of
rainforests.

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b)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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i) How has the natural vegetation in a tropical rainforest adapted to this climate?
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iv) Study Fig. 8, which shows deforestation of an area of tropical rainforest.

Fig 8
Suggest two reasons why large scale deforestation of the tropical rainforest is
taking place.
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b) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Total 10 marks

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