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Geography
Higher level and standard level
Paper 2 – resources booklet

Thursday 18 May 2017 (morning)

Instructions to candidates
yy Do not open this resources booklet until instructed to do so.
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Option B — Oceans and their coastal margins

4. The map shows some of the threats to the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.

Key:

Coral reef

World Heritage area

Threats to the Great Barrier Reef:

Mega port
Mining
Shipping superhighway

Cairns

Townsville

Mackay

N Rockhampton

Gladstone
Bundaberg

Scale:
0 250 km 500 km 750 km 1000 km Brisbane

[Source: www.fightforthereef.org.au]
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Option F — The geography of food and health

11. The map shows the life expectancy at birth for countries other than those in the Americas.

Equator

Key:
Life expectancy at birth
(years)
< 50
50 – 59
60 – 69
70 – 79
80 – 86

[Source: Reprinted from WHO: Life Expectancy,

http://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/life_tables/situation_trends/en, accessed 2015]

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Option F — The geography of food and health

12. Map A shows part of the urban area of Nashville, US. The scale of the map is 1:24 000 and the contour inter
Map B shows the distribution of obesity, a form of malnutrition, for different areas of Nashville.

Map A
16 17 18 19 20 21
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N

10

09

08

07

06

05
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[Source: US Geological Survey, www.usgs.gov]

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rval is 3 metres.
Key:
Primary highway hard surface Quarry or open-pit mine
Secondary highway hard surface Township boundary
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11 Local road, hard or improved surface Standard gauge railway
Unimproved road Contours
State route WT Water tower
Disturbed surface ST Street
Woodland Sch School

10 Buildings Cem Cemetery

Built-up area CH Church

Scale 1:24 000

1 0.5 0 Kilometres 1 2
1000 0 Metres 1000 2000
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Map B

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05
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Option G — Urban environments

13. The map shows the distribution of the neighbourhoods in an African city with low incomes and high
population density.

City centre

Scale:
0 20 km

Key:
Areas of high density and low income

[Source: Adapted from P Guinness, Johannesburg – a city of acute disparity,

Topic Eye A-Level Geography 2014–2015 edition, page 11, published by Cross Academe Limited.]