CSEC Geography June 2017 P1 PDF
CSEC Geography June 2017 P1 PDF
CSEC Geography June 2017 P1 PDF
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This test consists of 60 items. You will have I hour and I 5 minutes to answer them.
Samole Item
Hurricanes in the Caribbean area are MOST I
(A)
(B)
February-APril
April-June
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(C) July-September
(D) October-February
The correct answer to this item is "July-Septernber", so (C) has been shaded.
5. If you want to change your answer, erase it cornpletely before you fill in your new choice.
6. When you are told to begin, turn the page and work as quickly and as carefully as you can. If
you cannot answer an item, go on to the next o,ne. You may return to that item later.
Items 1-8 refer to the following map showing some rslands of the Eastern Caribbean. Five islands are labelled
I, II, III, IV and V.
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I In which direction should an airplane fly 5. St Martin is located on the line of latitude
on leaving Marie-Galante to go to Saba? that is approximately
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(A) Northeast (A) l8"N
(B) Southeast (B) l8"S
(C) Southwest (c) 63"8
(D) Northwest (D) 63. W
2 The grid bearing of Sint Eustatius from 6 The straight-line distance, in kilometres,
Marie-Galante is between Saba and Marie-Galante is
approximately
(A) 045"
(B) I 35" (A) t75
(c) 225" (B) 240
(D) 3 15. (c) 280
(D) 320
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9. In what general direction is the river flou ing?
Items 11-12 refer to the following map extract of the Black River area, Jamaica
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(B) distributary
(C) river capture
(D) deferred junction
(A) SE
(B) NE
(c) NNE
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Item 13 refers to the following graph which shows the percentage of the total population employed
in agriculture in 1950 and 2000 in som,: Caribbean territories.
The Bahamas
Barbados
Cuba
Dominican
Republic
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Guadeloupe
Haiti
Jamaica
Martinique
Puerto Rico
Trinidad and
Tobago
0 l0 20 30 40 50 60 70 E0 90 ("/"
13. Which country had the LARGEST percentage decline in people employed in agriculture?
(A) Haiti
(B) Maninique
(C) Trinidad and Tobago
(D) Dominican Republic
14. A relationship between longitude and time is that the time changes by
15. The factor explaining the difference between weather and climate is
(A) time
(B) rainfall
(C) location
(D) temperature
N
"lt was hot and rained heavily every day;
the trees grew very tall and there was little
undergrowth."
(A) Montane
(B) Equatorial
(c) Deciduous
(D) Semi-evergreen
t7 What type of weather system is being t9 Which of the following features forms in
described? the area marked N?
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Bulldings Y
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Contours Centre
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Scale: 2 cm:l km
20. The features found at T on the map are 21. A contour sketch from Point R to Point X
would look like
(A) a bay and beach
(B) a headland and bay Height
(C) cliffs and coral reefs (A) (m)
(D) a beach and headland 120
R Distance x
Height
(B) (m)
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80
40
R Distance x
Height
(c) (m)
120
80
40
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R Distance x
Height
(D) (m)
120,
80
R Distance x
22. The line labelled X rePresents 25 The rainfall depicted by the station model
behind the line X can BEST be described
(A) a trough as
(B) an isobar
(C) a tropical wave (A) drizzle
(D) thelntertropicalConvergenceZone (B) light rainfall
(tTCZ) (c) heavy rainfall
(D) intermittent showers
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28. Which of the following weather systems 30. How does vegetation contribute to the
does NOT affect the Caribbean during thc development of soils?
summer in the northern hemisphere?
(A) It provides the parent material.
(A) Cold fronts .
(B) It decomposes to form humus.
(B) Anticyclones (C) It increases the depth of soil.
(C) Easterly/Tropical waves (D) Itdecomposestoproduceinorganic
(D) The Intertropical Conveipen. e' matter.
Zone (ITCZ)
I Inhabitants
per km2
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32. Which of the following statements is true? 33 Which of the following areas has the
SMALLEST population?
(A) Thepopulationisevenlydistributed.
(B) The area of highest density is in the (A) I
south. (B) rr
(C) The population density increases (c) rrr
outward from Area l. (D) rv
(D) The population density decrease3,
outward from Area I.
Items 34-35 refer to the following graph 3s. What was the approximate size of the
showing the population size of a country population in the year 2OOO?
for the years 1850 to 2025.
(A) r s00 000
(B) 2 000 000
O (c) 2 500 000
o (D) 3 000 000
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(B) evaporation
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44 Which ofthe following types ofsettlements 49 Which of the following is NOT a problem
will MOST likely develop along a main affecting industrial development in the
road? Caribbean?
45. Which ofthe following is considered apoor 50 Which of the following measures do
farming practice? governments use to influence the location
of industries?
(A) Tillage
(B) Overgrazing Provision of tax incentives
(C) Strip cropping II. Offer of training programmes to
(D) Contour ploughing employees
TII Provision of the physical
infrastructure
46. ln peasant farming in the Caribbean, the
maintenance of the organic content in the (A) I and II only
soils can be ensured by the (B) I and lll only
(c) II and III only
(A) rotation of crops (D) I, II and III
(B) burning of vegetation
(C) application of manures
(D) use of chemical fertilizers 5l Which of the following features is typical
of large-scale commercial farming?
(A) Braided
(B) Flooded 52 Which of the following situations
(c) Turbulent contributes MOST to pollution of the
(D) Meandering environmentofcapital cities in CARICOM
countries?
48. The process by which beach material is (A) Discharge of chemicals in the sea
moved along the coast by wave action is (B) Discharge of fish waste in the sea
called (c) Discharge of exhaust fumes from
motor vehicles
(A) solution (D) Accumulation of garbage from
(B) refraction factories
(c) longshore drift
(D) hydraulic action
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54. In which of the following areas on the map would early settlers MOST likely have chosen to build
a town?
(A) w
(B) x
(c) Y
(D) Z
55. Which of the following factors is the MOST important contributor to the growth of capital cities
in the Caribbean?
56. What is the leading foreign exchange earner in MOST Caribbean countries?
(A) Tourism
(B) Petroleum
(c) Agriculture
(D) Manufacturing
Items 57-58 ref'er to the fbllowing diagram shorving a series of consequences from tropical
deforestation.
57 Which ofthe following consequences BEST 59 Which of the following are COMMON
represents X? causes ofcoastal pollution inthe Caribbean?
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