Edexcel GCSE Geography B Paper 3: People and Environment Issues June 2024 question paper 1GB0/03

Use Section A (pages 2, 3 and 4) in the Resource Booklet to answer this question.

Study Figure 1.

Identify the geographical region where capital city Quito is located.

Identify the best estimate of the area of the rainforest region in Figure 1.

Using Figure 1 and your own knowledge, explain one physical reason why rainforest cannot grow in some parts of Ecuador.

Study Figure 2.

Identify the year when the area of tropical forest loss was largest.

Using Figure 2 and your own knowledge, suggest two reasons why the distribution of Earth’s biomes is changing over time.

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

Study Figure 3.

Using information in Figure 3, calculate the total estimated value of the oil located below Ecuador’s rainforest.

Using your own knowledge, identify one climate characteristic of tropical rainforest areas.

Study Figure 4.

Calculate the total percentage (%) of countries who are not REDD members.

Figure 4 mentions CITES.

Identify the main purpose of CITES.

Using Figure 3 and Figure 4, explain one strength and one weakness of global actions to protect rainforests.

Strength

Weakness

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

Study Figure 5.

Identify Ecuador’s most valuable export.

Figure 5 provides information about Ecuador’s population size and population growth rate in 2021.

Calculate the size of Ecuador’s population in millions in 2022.

Study Figure 6.

Identify one physical cause of reduced economic growth in Ecuador.

Using Figures 5 and 6, suggest two reasons why Ecuador’s consumption of energy has grown at a faster rate than its population.

Figure 7 shows how oil production can have a negative impact on the environment.

Using your own knowledge, explain two ways in which renewable energy production can also have a negative impact on the environment.

Using evidence from Figures 7 and 8, assess the threats to Yasuní National Park (YNP) and its communities.

Study Figure 9.

Identify two actions taken by rainforest communities to protect their land.

Study Figure 10.

Figure 10 mentions unconventional fossil fuels.

Using your own knowledge, name two unconventional fossil fuel sources.

Using evidence from Figure 10, assess which countries are most and least responsible for carbon dioxide emissions over time.