Industry (CIE IGCSE Geography)

Hypothesis 1: Research and development employees generally live in different parts of the urban area compared to the assembly work employees.

Hypothesis 2: Employees think that the journey to work is a main disadvantage of where they live.

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The results for Question 1 in the questionnaire are shown in Table 1.1.

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Fig. 1.3         or        Fig. 1.4

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A class of students investigated a local high technology industrial area. They wanted to find out about the companies located there.

The high technology industrial area is shown in Figs. 1.1 and 1.2. The photograph in Fig. 1.1 shows the area in 2006 and the map in Fig. 1.2 shows it in 2016.

Fig 1.1

Fig 1.2

The students identified the following hypotheses:

Hypothesis 1: The sectors (types) of high technology industry in the area changed between 2006 and 2016.

Hypothesis 2: High technology companies employ a highly skilled workforce.

To investigate Hypothesis 1 the students did a survey of the companies which occupied some of the buildings shown in Fig. 1.2 (below). They wanted to find out what sector of high technology industry the companies were involved in.

Fig. 1.2

To investigate Hypothesis 2: High technology companies employ a highly skilled workforce, the students used a questionnaire with 50 employees from different high technology companies. Their questionnaire is shown in Fig. 1.7.

Table 1.3 
Answers to questionnaire

Question 1: Which one of the following is your highest academic qualification?

Qualification	Number of answers
School qualification	1
Higher school qualification	7
University degree	23
Higher university degree	19

Question 2: Do you think your job is highly skilled?

Yes = 45

No = 5

Question 3: Why do you think your job is highly skilled?

Reason	Number of answers
I am able to give advice and support to other people and companies.	34
I understand how the results of my work can be used in other industries.	33
I receive a lot of training to understand what I need to do in my work.	38
I use complex machinery and technology in my work.	36

Use the results to complete Fig. 1.8 below.

Which two of the following are factors which attract high technology industries to an area?
Tick your choices in the table below.

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A group of students in The Gambia visited Bafoloto quarry. The location of the quarry is shown in Fig. 2.1.

The Gambia is a small country in Africa. It is about 50km wide at the coast and narrows to only 24km wide inland. Use Fig. 2.1 to measure the length of The Gambia from west to east. Tick () your answer below.

	Tick()
300km
330km
410km
460km

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Mining and quarrying contribute a small proportion of the total GDP of The Gambia. This is shown in Table 2.1 below.

Table 2.1

GDP is a measurement of the total value of goods and services produced in a country.

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Use the data in Table 2.1 to complete the pie graph, Fig. 2.2 below.

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Bafoloto quarry in The Gambia, is shown in Fig. 2.3. below.  Laterite, which is used in building, is dug out at the quarry.

Describe two features of work at the quarry which are shown in Fig. 2.3.

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To investigate Hypothesis 2: People gained benefits from going to work at Bafoloto quarry, the students used the answers to Question 3 in the questionnaire (Why do you work at the quarry?). Some answers to Question 3 are shown in Table 2.4 below.

The students reached the conclusion that Hypothesis 2: People gained benefits from going to work at Bafoloto quarry, was generally true.

Which three answers in Table 2.4 best support their conclusion? Tick () your three choices below.

Table 2.4

Answers to Question 3 (Why do you work at the quarry?)

Answers to Question 3	Tick()
Quarry work is better paid than farm work
No skills to do any other job
Earn money at the quarry (in the dry season) when there is no work to do on the farm
Relatives already work at the quarry
Send money to my family back home
Have paid for a licence to dig in the quarry

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