ST. JOHN PLESSINGTON HIGH SCHOOL MANCHESTER

GEOGRAPHY UPPER SIXTH LENT TERM 1978 TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS

Answer 2 questions from Section A and 2 from Section B.

1. What are the major factors which have influenced the location of industrial activity In the North German Plain?

2. Discuss the role of navigable waterways in the West German economy.

3. Compare Stockholm and Goteborg as industrial cities and ports.

4. Describe and. suggest reasons for the location and nature of manufacturing industry in Norway.

5. Assess the importance of forestry in the regional. geography of Sweden

6. To what extent do the resources of Denmark influence the pattern of her trade?

SECTION B

7. Discuss the distribution and utilization of the fuel and power resources of New Zealand, with special reference to developments during the last two decades.

8. Assess the importance of irrigation to agriculture in S.E. Agriculture color="#808080" size="2" face="Courier New">(Sic) size="2" face="Courier New">
(S. Australia, Victoria and New South Wales).

9. Discuss the contribution of mining to the development of Australia north of the Tropic of Capricorn.

10. Compare Australia and New Zealand as producers as exporters of dairy produce.

11. ‘Western Australia has one of the fastest rates of economic growth in Australia’. Discuss the character of recent developments and the factors responsible for them.

12. Describe and account for the contrasts in agricultural land use in Indonesia.