Geography Paper 2 Case Studies Exam
Questions With Assured Answers
Tensions from Globalisation : Belt and ____ Inititative
1. What is it? How much did it cost?
2. What negative consequences can it have for African countries?
3. How can this lead to censorship?
4. How does this create tension with the West? - ANSTensions from Globalisation : Belt and Road
Initiative
1. Initiative to connect China to African countries for trade. They pay for roads, train tracks in
developing nations. Cost $1 trillion
2. Can lead to debt-trap diplomacy and domestic tensions as people don't trust china. (e.g. in
Ghana).
3. Chinese companies like Startimes pay for satellite TV and can choose what to broadcast.
4. China may take trading partners from the west, increases China's geopolitical influence.
Nation states are highly varied and have very different histories. (Rwanda)
1. Who drew up Rwanda's borders?
2. Which two ethnic groups did this group together?
3. Which group did the colonisers favour?
4. Which document was handed out that furthered the divide?
5. What did this lead too and how many were killed? What did this lead to?
6. Which IGO was ineffective? - ANSNation states are highly varied and have very different histories.
(Rwanda)
1. Belgian Colonisers
2. The Hutu and Tutsis
3. Colonisers favoured Tutsis due to them looking more 'European'
,4. Identity Cards eventually handed out which included race.
5. Lead to the Rwandan Genocide, with 800,000 Tutsis killed. Lead to the economy collapsing,
deforestation as refugees fled.
6. The UN was ineffective.
Political and economic decision making are important factors in the acceleration of globalisation.
(China's Open Door Policy).
1. What year was it established?
2. What did it let in to China?
3. What infrastructure was then built?
4. What effect did this have on poverty? - ANSPolitical and economic decision making are important
factors in the acceleration of globalisation. (China's Open Door Policy).
1. 1978
2. Let FDI and TNCs into China
3. Factories, ports and transport infrastructure was built
4. 600 million rose from poverty between 1992 and 2015.
Globalisation has affected some places and organisations more than others.
1. What geographical factors can make a country 'switched off'?
2. What political factors can make a country 'Switched off'? - ANSGlobalisation has affected some
places and organisations more than others.
1. Being land-locked means countries are unable to effectively trade and utilise containerisation.
Makes trade expensive and reliant on other countries to access the sea and global markets. E.g.
Burkina Faso
2. Censorship, small flows of people and not allowing FDI and TNCs in causes a country to be
'switched off' from global markets and culture. E.G. North Korea, pre-1978 China.
Political and economic decision making are important factors in the acceleration of globalisation.
(Shenzhen)
, 1. What did the government designate Shenzhen?
2. What notable infrastructure does it have?
3. How many foreign contracts had been signed by 1985?) - ANSPolitical and economic decision
making are important factors in the acceleration of globalisation. (Shenzhen)
1. Special Economic Zone (SEZ)
2. Has an airport, port, massive industry
3. 5100
The global shift has created winners and losers for people and the physical environment. (China)
1. What percentage of lakes are polluted? What has this led to?
2. What percentage of water is now unusable, even for industrial purposes?
3. What percentage of terrestrial vertebrates have died? What is this? - ANSThe global shift has
created winners and losers for people and the physical environment. (China)
1. 70% of lakes are polluted, led to water shortages
2. 25% of all water is even unsuitable for industrial purposes
3. 50% have died off, caused a loss of biodiversity.
The scale and pace of economic migration has increased as the world has become more
interconnected, creating consequences for people and the physical environment. (Karachi)
1. What is the population?
2. What percentage of the population lives in slums?
3. Infrastructure for what is lacking?
4. What % of Pakistan's GDP does it generate?
5. What is the largest slum called? - ANSThe scale and pace of economic migration has increased as
the world has become more interconnected, creating consequences for people and the physical
environment. (Karachi)
1. 24 Million
2. 50% live in slums
Questions With Assured Answers
Tensions from Globalisation : Belt and ____ Inititative
1. What is it? How much did it cost?
2. What negative consequences can it have for African countries?
3. How can this lead to censorship?
4. How does this create tension with the West? - ANSTensions from Globalisation : Belt and Road
Initiative
1. Initiative to connect China to African countries for trade. They pay for roads, train tracks in
developing nations. Cost $1 trillion
2. Can lead to debt-trap diplomacy and domestic tensions as people don't trust china. (e.g. in
Ghana).
3. Chinese companies like Startimes pay for satellite TV and can choose what to broadcast.
4. China may take trading partners from the west, increases China's geopolitical influence.
Nation states are highly varied and have very different histories. (Rwanda)
1. Who drew up Rwanda's borders?
2. Which two ethnic groups did this group together?
3. Which group did the colonisers favour?
4. Which document was handed out that furthered the divide?
5. What did this lead too and how many were killed? What did this lead to?
6. Which IGO was ineffective? - ANSNation states are highly varied and have very different histories.
(Rwanda)
1. Belgian Colonisers
2. The Hutu and Tutsis
3. Colonisers favoured Tutsis due to them looking more 'European'
,4. Identity Cards eventually handed out which included race.
5. Lead to the Rwandan Genocide, with 800,000 Tutsis killed. Lead to the economy collapsing,
deforestation as refugees fled.
6. The UN was ineffective.
Political and economic decision making are important factors in the acceleration of globalisation.
(China's Open Door Policy).
1. What year was it established?
2. What did it let in to China?
3. What infrastructure was then built?
4. What effect did this have on poverty? - ANSPolitical and economic decision making are important
factors in the acceleration of globalisation. (China's Open Door Policy).
1. 1978
2. Let FDI and TNCs into China
3. Factories, ports and transport infrastructure was built
4. 600 million rose from poverty between 1992 and 2015.
Globalisation has affected some places and organisations more than others.
1. What geographical factors can make a country 'switched off'?
2. What political factors can make a country 'Switched off'? - ANSGlobalisation has affected some
places and organisations more than others.
1. Being land-locked means countries are unable to effectively trade and utilise containerisation.
Makes trade expensive and reliant on other countries to access the sea and global markets. E.g.
Burkina Faso
2. Censorship, small flows of people and not allowing FDI and TNCs in causes a country to be
'switched off' from global markets and culture. E.G. North Korea, pre-1978 China.
Political and economic decision making are important factors in the acceleration of globalisation.
(Shenzhen)
, 1. What did the government designate Shenzhen?
2. What notable infrastructure does it have?
3. How many foreign contracts had been signed by 1985?) - ANSPolitical and economic decision
making are important factors in the acceleration of globalisation. (Shenzhen)
1. Special Economic Zone (SEZ)
2. Has an airport, port, massive industry
3. 5100
The global shift has created winners and losers for people and the physical environment. (China)
1. What percentage of lakes are polluted? What has this led to?
2. What percentage of water is now unusable, even for industrial purposes?
3. What percentage of terrestrial vertebrates have died? What is this? - ANSThe global shift has
created winners and losers for people and the physical environment. (China)
1. 70% of lakes are polluted, led to water shortages
2. 25% of all water is even unsuitable for industrial purposes
3. 50% have died off, caused a loss of biodiversity.
The scale and pace of economic migration has increased as the world has become more
interconnected, creating consequences for people and the physical environment. (Karachi)
1. What is the population?
2. What percentage of the population lives in slums?
3. Infrastructure for what is lacking?
4. What % of Pakistan's GDP does it generate?
5. What is the largest slum called? - ANSThe scale and pace of economic migration has increased as
the world has become more interconnected, creating consequences for people and the physical
environment. (Karachi)
1. 24 Million
2. 50% live in slums
