Pasir Ris Crest 1E Geography EOY 2022

1 PASIR RIS CREST SECONDARY SCHOOL End-of-Year Examination 2022 Secondary One Express CANDIDATE NAME CLASS / INDEX NUMBER Geography 6 October 2022 1 hour 30 minutes READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, class and index number on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue, highlighters or correction fluid. Answer ALL questions. Candidates should support their answers with the use of relevant examples. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. The total number of marks for this paper is 45. For Examiner’s Use 45 Parent’s Signature This document consists of 10 printed pages.

2 Section A: Response to Geographical Issue [10m] 1. Study the article in Fig. 1 and answer the questions that follow. Fighting Deforestation in the Congo Basin The Congo Basin is home to the world’s second largest tropical forest after the Amazon. It is home to rich biodiversity, with over 400 species of mammals, 1,000 species of birds, and 10,000 species of plants. This huge forest covering 286 million hectares is currently suffering deforestation due to more trees being cleared for plantations, mining and illegal wood trade. To deal with this situation, the France Development Agency (FDA) and other agencies are setting rules to manage the clearing of trees in the Congo Basin. However, government agencies do not always have the ability to enforce responsible logging, monitor the actions of loggers, and reduce the demand for agricultural land in these large forested areas. Hence, to ensure that the logging of forests within the Congo Basin is regulated, FDA has supported a project to provide the government agencies with the technology to monitor forest cover using satellite images. In some areas, they have provided the Ministry of Forestry, Environment and Protection of Natural Resources with equipment and training on how to prevent illegal logging. Fig. 1 a) Locate and circle the Congo Basin Rainforest on the map in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 [1]

3 b) Identify the key geographical issue discussed in the article. [1] _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ c) Evaluate the strength and limitation of the strategy used to manage the Congo Basin Rainforest. [4] _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________