2024 HCI Prelims P1 Insert

HWA CHONG INSTITUTION JC2 Preliminary Examination Higher 2 CANDIDATE NAME CT GROUP CENTRE NUMBER INDEX NUMBER GEOGRAPHY Paper 1 INSERT 9173/01 23 August 2024 3 hours READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST This Insert contains all the Resources referred to in the quest ions. ________________________________________________________________________ This document consists of 5 printed pages and 1 blank page [Turn over

2 © Hwa Chong Institution 9173 / 01 / C2 Prelims 2024 Resource 1 for Question 1 Apple’s supply chain in 2023 and 2024 Resource 2 for Question 1 Countries/Territories with Apple stores [Turn over

3 © Hwa Chong Institution 9173 / 01 / C2 Prelims 2024 Resource 3 for Question 1 Excerpt taken from business article on WTO and Chinese government’s ‘blacklist’ Complex World Trade Organisation (WTO) regulations will make it very difficult for the US government and major technology companies to take legal action against Beijing’s decision to drop Apple and Cisco from its approved state procurement lists. When the Chinese government joined the WTO in December 2001, Beijing did not sign up to a *plurilateral treaty on government procurements. As a result, China is able to remove any foreign brands that the government doesn’t like from its state procurement lists with potential WTO blowback. Virtually all leading tech companies are at risk of being affected, including Cisco systems, Intel, Microsoft and Apple,” said a senior analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a United States-based think tank. * plurilateral treaty on government procurements refers to the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) to ensure open, fair and transparent conditions of competition in the government procurement markets. Not all WTO members are parties to the Agreement. Resource 4 for Question 2 The classification of deltas [Turn over

4 © Hwa Chong Institution 9173 / 01 / C2 Prelims 2024 Resource 5 for Question 2 Niger Delta in Nigeria with ecoregions and land use types [Turn over

5 © Hwa Chong Institution 9173 / 01 / C2 Prelims 2024 Resource 6 for Question 2 Land use and land cover (LULC) impacted by oil spills in the Niger Delta [Turn over

6 © Hwa Chong Institution 9173 / 01 / C2 Prelims 2024 BLANK PAGE