INTERNAL EXAMINATIONS

International General Certificate for Secondary Education

Final Term Examinations May 2022

Grade: 8

Name: _________________________ Section: _________________

Branch: ________________________ Date: ___________________

Subject: The Environment of Pakistan Syllabus Code:0448

Time: 1 hour 30 minutes Total Marks: 75

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST FOR EXAMINER’S USE

1. Candidates must answer all questions on the Section Max. Marks
Question Paper. Marks Obtained
2. Write in dark blue or black pen. A 25
3. You may use lead pencil for diagrams, graphs, B 25
or rough work. C 25
4. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters Total 75
and glue or correction fluid.
5. At the end of the examination, fasten all your Percentage
work securely together. Grade

Teachers Remarks:
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Q1. a. (i) A: coniferous
B: subtropical shrub forests
C: Tropical thorn/rakh
(Page: 74)
(ii) 1: coastal areas of Sindh
2: coastal areas of Balochistan
(Page:72)
b. (i) 1. They survive in salt water
2. They have specialized root systems
(Page:76)
(ii) 1. Ecological function
2. formation of humus
(Page: 71)
(iii) 1. Altitude
2. Aridity
3. Precipitation
(Page:74)
c. (i) 1. Increased urbanization
2. for making roads for better transport
3. for agriculture
(Page: 77)
(ii) Rectangular, man-made ponds, concrete/cemented, have a base to
prevent leakage of water.
(Page: 99)
d. Students’ own responses and explanation of the chosen point of view.
(Page: 81-82)
2. a. (i)
(Page: 90)
(ii) Gypsum: 1. Manufacturing of paints
2. used to make cement and Plaster of Paris
Limestone: 1. Main component of cement
2. used in bleaching powders, glass, soaps etc
(Page:87)
b. (i).
(Page:90)
(ii). PKR 265000
(iii) There is an increase in the GDP if compared to 2011. (Take students own
responses)
c. (i). outcrops, excavation, buildings, methods, equipment, explosives
(Page: 86)

(ii) fishing that is able to be maintained at a certain rate/level

(iii) open cast mining, underground mining
(Page: 84)
d. (i) Gwadar, Pasni, Ormara
(Page: 97)

(ii) subsistence fishing, In commercial fishing

(Page: 97-98)

(iii)
(Page: 77-78)
e. Students own responses and their point of view
(Page 93)

Q3:
a. (i) Draw on pie chart
(ii) climate, cultivation, deforestation
b. (i) 1. ecological factors
2. formation of humus
3. industrial uses
(Page: 71)
(ii) Productive forests: natural.
Protective forests: man-made.
(Page: 71)
(iii)
(Page: 71)

c. (i)
(Page: 78)
(ii)
(Page: 97-98)