2023 NJC J1 Promos Insert

National Junior College SH1 Promotional Examinations for General Certificate of Education Advanced Level Higher 2 GEOGRAPHY 9173/01 INSERT 26 September 2023 3 hours READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST This Insert contains all the Resources referred to in the questions. This document consists of 8 printed pages.

2 Resource 1 for Question 1 Map showing locations of Sungai Melaka and Sungai Simpang Kiri Sungai Simpang Kiri Sungai Melaka

3 Resource 2A for Question 1 Photograph of Sungai Melaka Resource 2B for Question 1 Photograph of Sungai Simpang Kiri

4 Resource 3 for Question 1 Questionnaire used by the students for data collection 1. How many years have you lived/worked here? _____ 2. How old are you? ________ 3. What is the risk of floods in this area? ● No risk ● Low risk ● Medium risk ● High risk 4. How often does the river flood? ● At least once every month ● At least once in 6 months ● At least once a year ● Never 5. How is flood risk reduced in the area? ___________________________________________________________________ 6. Do you feel vulnerable to flood risk? ● Yes ● No 7. From 1-10, rate your adaptive capacity. _________ 8. How severe have the floods here been? __________________________________________________________________ 9. Do you know what to do to evacuate when there is a flood? ● Yes ● No 10. Which months of the year do the floods usually occur? _________

5 Resource 4 for Question 1 Responses tabulated from the question “What is the risk of floods in this area?”

6 Resource 5 for Question 2 Urban Metabolism Framework performance of two selected cities in 2015

7 Resource 6 for Question 2 News excerpt on Freiburg, Germany Freiburg: Germany’s futuristic city set in a forest This picture-perfect medieval city is celebrating its 900th anniversary, but its innovative design makes it one of the world’s most sustainable and liveable cities. With 400km of bike paths and twice as many bikes as cars, Freiburg is a cyclists’ paradise. This intentional design can be traced back to the post-war period. While other German cities were focusing on rebuilding modern cities that put cars at the centre of future transport, planners in Freiburg took a different approach, centering their designs around public transport, thus widening the streets to accommodate trams and bike lanes, including large pedestrian zones. And at a time when mu ch of Germany was building wide highways and sprawling car parks, Freiburg launched its first urban transport policy in 1969 focusing on environmentally-friendly modes of travel. On match days, a sea of football fans travel along the FR1 (bicycle priority route) and descend on the 24,000-seat Schwarzwald-Stadion, Germany’s first solar-powered football stadium that’s home to local