273/1 GEOGRAPHY Paper 1 Oct./Nov. 2024 2% hours (Pssst tet UGANDA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD Uganda Certificate of Education j GEOGRAPHY Paper 1 2 hours 45 minutes INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDAT This paper consists of two Sections; A and B. It has six examination items. Section A has two compulsory items. Section B has two parts; Land Il. Answer one item from each part. d4nswer four items in all. You may use diagrams, where applicable, to illustrate your answers. {ny additional item(s) answered will not be scored. All answers must be written in the answer booklet(s) provided. © 2024 Uganda National Examinations Board Turn OverSECTION A Answer both items in this section. Item 1: Map Skills For this item use the EAST AFRICA 1:50,000 (UGANDA): NAKASONGOLA, map extract sheet 50/’ 's Y732 Edition 1 — USD to respond to the tasks. Nakasongola lying 1.2° North of equator has several places and features which can attract tourists if they are developed. These include natural landscapes, vegetation, climate and human culture. The climate is characterised by a long dry period and a short period of heavy rainfall. It has scanty shrub vegetation of savannah type. An investor has got a license to carry out agriculture and ecotourism in the area. According to his business plan, he wants to establish a camp site on Kakondi hill and €stablish farms in Kakooge and Wabinyonyi sub-counties. Before construction work ‘an engineering company to lay a water +71) to the proposed camp site at Kakondi effectively the engineers need to get full Proposed pipe line movement. from the water tank (291471) to the hill peak (361450). f the area and the map icultural activities to carryItem 2: Photograph Skills of Energy and Mineral During the recent airbome surveys carried out by Ministry : Development, large deposits of iron ore were discovered in the area shown in the photograph. The local community received the news of the mineral discovery With great happiness and celebration, ‘They expected that they would be given first priority to mine the iron ore using simple artisan methods. They thought that nig ‘would supplement their incomes from peasant agriculture. However, the Ministry has a plan to lease the mineral deposits to two foreign companies which have the experience in commercial mining and mineral processing, This is aimed at ensuring that mining in the area promotes both local and national development. During a consultative meeting with the people from the Ministry in — which you participated, members of your community expressed their worry that large-scale mining and mineral processing by foreign companies might not benefi the area, but instead cause several losses. jTask _ ided. graph provided. the Ministry officials ar to incur and suggest he local communities «) @___ Drawa sketch of the area shown in the photo (ii) Using the photograph provided, explain to evidence of the losses the local community fe measures that should be taken to ensure that # get long-term benefits from the mining. the Ministry’s plan panies. ) Advise the community members on the need to accept of leasing the mineral deposits to the foreign mining com| SECTION B PartI Answer only one item from this part. Item 3 tour of an ancient settlement You were identified as a bers the different ; \ community group to which you belong organised a with remains of old buildings, tools and rock materials. eam leader and your role included explaining to the team mem! things you saw during the tour. In one of the rooms at the ancient settlement was a collection of stones that ancient people used. Two’ of these stones, one was glassy and another sponge-like in appearance attracted the interests of your team members and they requested you to give more information about them. iit Task: a) Name and describe the process of formation of the two types of rocks you saw. (>) Explain how the formation of those rocks can affect human activities. Item 4 | severe rain storm is forecasted to hit East Africa between latitudes 5°N and 5°S. It is expected to cause disasters like severe landslides and flooding. The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) is preparing to sound an early warning to the people living in the area that are most likely to suffer the effects of the disasters. The IFRC has contacted you to provide information that they will use for theea \varning, You are provided with a map of East Africa in Fig. 1 to prepare the required information.Map of East Africa South Si lng Severe ralnstortaTask: From the map: (a) Identify the areas of East Africa that are likely to suffer the most severe effects of the expected floods and landslides: (b) Recommend to the IFRC the most suitable areas for resettlement of the affected persons, Part I Answer one item from this part. Item 5 While celebrating world population day, your cultural leader appealed to his subjects to bear more children and work hard to take care of them. He wamed against the one-sided emphasis-on family planning that married couples should bear fewer children. He gave examples of countries with high total population ‘but also highly developed. Examples are China with 1,418,781,663, Nigeria 236,700,000; and Egypt 116,836,383 people. On the other hand, countries like Uganda with about 50,000,000 and Rwanda with just over 14,000,000 are being overshadowed by those highly populated countries in all areas of development. He continued to say that because of the benefits of large population even countries like China that for long restricted each married couple to produce one child, in 2015 abolished that “one child policy” and by 2021 allowed each married couple to produce up to three children. His argument was not supported by some people, while others welcomed it. One university student gave out a worldometer density population figures of 2024 for the mentioned countries and the results were contradicting. Most of those highly developed countries had lower population densities compared to the less developed countries as shown in table 1. ‘Country Population density China 151 Nigeria 255 v Egypt 117 Uganda 250 S18 Rwanda 578 Ss i Table 1 R : “these conflicting explanations caused some of the people to approach you to _ explain to them the relationship between population and development, y4.00 10000 Been invited to give your opinion to this team. LI 400 = snario and reasons fOr (a) (i) Explain the concepts presented in the ena aral leader and difference in the figures presented by Me © university student ¢ population density ft (i) Use'a suitable statistical graph to represent the pop the selected countries. topitianna s to the developr » (6) Explain the contribution of large population size lc : one country presented in the scenario and the table Item 6 world, they are the youn} can cities are the most rapidly growing cities in the : n Bee wns yay This ‘i onomie, social and politic and are changing very fast. This comes with serious ec effects on both urban and rural areas. The trends in the expansion of African cities is in two ways; the first rei urban areas are expanding much faster than the urban population growth, and in second trend, more people (at least 70% of which are youth) are migrating 1 centres. The African urban population growth trend between 2010 and 2023 presented in table 2 [Urban population F 408,600,000 491,500,000 2020 587,700,000 2023 (652,200,000 ‘Table 2 Adapted: https:/www.woldometer.info Your district headquarters has been declared a City. The leadership of the d expects this to come with both positive and negative effects on not only the « also rural areas and they are gathering information from your community abo likely effects of this city on the population and how best to address them. You hi Task: (a) (i) Calculate the percentage of African Urban Population growth 2010 and 2023. a (ii) _ Using information in the table, draw an appropriate statistical to describe the trend in African Urban Population growth be 2010 and 2023. p (b) Explain to the city leadership the methods that can be used negative effects of this city on both rural and urban areas,