Edexcel GCSE Geography B Paper 3: People and Environment Issues June 2022 question paper 1GB0/03

Use Section A (pages 3 and 4) of the Resource Booklet before answering this question.

Study Figure 1.

Identify the year when Ghana’s population reached 20 million.

More resources are needed when a country’s population increases in size.

Using your own knowledge, state one other reason why the demand for resources may grow over time.

Ghana’s population is predicted to double in size between 2020 and 2050.

Explain one way in which the graph in Figure 1 supports this prediction.

Use data from Figure 1 in your answer.

Study Figure 2 in the Resource Booklet.

Using Figure 2, identify two ways in which mining leads to vegetation loss.

Using your own knowledge, explain one way in which soil can be damaged by the loss of vegetation.

Use Section B (pages 5 and 6) in the Resource Booklet to answer this question.

Study Figure 3.

Identify when the greatest increase in precipitation occurs.

Identify the modal amount of monthly precipitation.

Using your own knowledge, identify two ways in which plants in tropical rainforests are adapted to the climate.

Study Figure 4 in the Resource Booklet.

Explain two ways in which the changes shown in Figure 4 may lead to the loss of tropical rainforest animals.

Use Section C (pages 7 to 12) in the Resource Booklet to answer this question.

Study Figure 5.

Identify Ghana’s most valuable export in 2019.

Identify how you would work out the percentage increase in GDP per capita from 2010 to 2019.

Study Figure 6 in the Resource Booklet.

Identify which country started oil production first.

Study Figures 5 and 6 in the Resource Booklet.

Using evidence from Figures 5 and 6, explain two ways in which Ghana’s economy might be affected by the development of new oil resources.

Study Figure 7 in the Resource Booklet.

Identify the distance between Axim and the centre of the Jubilee Field.

Using your own knowledge, explain one physical and one economic reason why oil resources can only be developed in certain places.

Physical reason

Economic reason

Study Figure 8 in the Resource Booklet.

Assess the similarities and differences between the two views.

Study Figure 9 in the Resource Booklet.

Using evidence from Figure 9 and your own knowledge, explain two reasons for the rise in global CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel use since the year 2000.

Study Figure 10 in the Resource Booklet.

Using evidence from Figure 10, assess the environmental challenges which climate change may bring to Ghana.