Edexcel A Level Geography Paper 2 November 2021 question paper 9GE0/02

Explain one reason why free trade policies are promoted by international economic organisations.

Assess the extent to which global shift has caused more social costs than social benefits.

Calculate the percentage (%) increase in military spending for the USA between 2000 and 2017.

Give your answer to one decimal place.

You must show your working.

Calculate the ratio of USA to China’s military spending in 2017.

Identify the country that had the fastest rate of growth in military spending between 2000 and 2017.

Assess the view that hard power is essential in achieving superpower status.

Study Figure 2 in the Resource Booklet.

Suggest one reason average wages per week differ between urban places.

Study Figure 2 in the Resource Booklet.

Suggest why urban places in less successful regions may suffer from a spiral of decline.

You have studied your local place and a contrasting place.

Explain the changes in the demographic characteristics of one of these places.

Do not answer Question 4 if you have answered Question 3

Diverse Places

You must use the Resource Booklet provided.

Study Figure 3 in the Resource Booklet.

Suggest one reason the percentage of foreign-born people differs between urban places.

Study Figure 3 in the Resource Booklet.

Suggest why urban places have different population growth rates.

You have studied your local place and a contrasting place.

Explain the changes in the cultural characteristics of one of these places.

Explain one reason why life expectancy varies within a country.

Study Figure 4 in the Resource Booklet.

Suggest why some developing and emerging countries have had more success in reducing poverty than others.

Explain why economic development may have negative impacts on minority groups and the environments where they live.

Evaluate the view that global differences in human rights inevitably result in geopolitical interventions.

Do not answer Question 6 if you have answered Question 5.

Migration, Identity and Sovereignty

You must use the Resource Booklet provided.

Explain one reason why many national borders are contested.

Study Figure 5 in the Resource Booklet.

Explain why many governments have mixed attitudes to the emergence of tax-havens.

Explain why globalisation may cause political tensions within nations.

Evaluate the view that increased globalisation inevitably results in international migration.