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PIONEER JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 Preliminary Examination Higher 1 GEOGRAPHY 8813/01 Paper 1 11 September 2017 Insert 3 hours READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST This Insert contains all the Resources referred to in the questions. This document consists of 6 printed pages.
2 Resource 1 for Question 1 Site A Site B
3 Resource 2 for Question 1 Data collected from Site A (Residential area) Time Infiltration rate (mm/hr) 15 mins 65 30mins 50 45 mins 30 60 mins 15 75 mins 10 90 mins 10 105 mins 10 120 mins 10 Data collected from Site B (Nature Park) Time Infiltration rate (mm/hr) 15 mins 125 30mins 110 45 mins 85 60 mins 80 75 mins 75 90 mins 70 105 mins 70 120 mins 70
4 Resource 3 for Question 1 Photograph of soil sample at Site A Photograph of soil sample at Site B
5 Resource 4 for Question 2 Location of favelas in Brazil Resource 5 for Question 2 Photograph of a favela in Rio de Janeiro
6 Resource 6 for Question 2 Service provision in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Resource 7 for Question 2 Article on relocation of slum dwellers END The World Cup and the Olympics are being used as a pret ext for "social cleansing" as tens of thousands of Rio slum dwellers are driven out to the city periphery, favela residents say. While millions of eyes turn to north-eastern Brazil for the World Cup draw on Fri day, poor communities in Rio de Janeiro are still struggling to be heard as they fight against evictions they say are related to the city's mega sporting events. At least 19,000 families have been moved to make way for roads, renovated stadiums, an athletes' village, an ambitious redevelopment of the port area and other projects that have been launched or accelerated to prepare the city for the worl d's two biggest sporting events. Countless communities are affected. As was the case in Beijing, London and South Africa befor e their mega events, the government says such programmes are necessary to modernise the city. Among the best known is Vila Autódromo, which will be the site of the main Olympic stadium and athletes' village. The authorities insist that due process has been followed and no residents have been forcibly relocated. In Vila Autódromo the mayor said he would move people to a new place and build nice housing projects for people to move to a new area. “People started protesting, saying you couldn't evict people because of the Olympics. So after some time, the city admitted they should not have forced them to go. They talked to each one of the people living in that area, roughly half said they wanted to move and the other half wanted to stay," he said. "Then when they started to see the project going up they realised it was very nice and so they came here to demonstrate and demand to be moved to the new housing
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