Food Production (Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Geography): Exam Questions

Study Fig. 6.3, which shows recommendations which agricultural experts have given to subsistence farmers in areas such as the one shown in Fig. 6.1.

Fig. 6.3

(i)

Explain how each of the three recommendations in Fig. 6.3 may increase the farmers’ food supply.

   -Build a covered, concrete-lined well close to the farm

   -Put electric fences around the fields of maize and millet

   -Use some land to graze a small herd of goats

[3]

Study Fig. 5.1, which shows information about agriculture in Pakistan, an LEDC in Asia.

(i)

Calculate the area by which arable land increased in Pakistan between 1950 and 2010
. ..................................................... million hectares

[1]

(ii)

Describe how the percentage of the workforce employed in agriculture in Pakistan changed between 1950 and 2010. Use statistics in your answer.

[2]

(iii)

Suggest three ways that farmers in Pakistan were able to increase the area of arable land in the country between 1950 and 2010.
1............................................................................................................
2.............................................................................................................
3.............................................................................................................

 [3]

Study Figs. 6.1 and 6.2, which are photographs of a commercial farm.

Fig 6.1

Fig 6.2

(i)

What is meant by a commercial farm?

[1]

(ii)

What evidence in Figs. 6.1 and 6.2 suggests that the farm shown is a mixed farm?

[2]

(iii)

Insert the following words into the table below to show examples of inputs, processes and outputs of the farm shown in Figs. 6.1 and 6.2.

Choose from the words below.

milk                                wheat                            harvesting
ploughing                            water                           pesticides      

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Study Fig. 6.3, which shows information about grain production in Brazil between 1990 and 2014.

Compare the change in grain production in Brazil with the change in the area of land planted with grain and harvested between 1990 and 2014.

You should refer to years and use statistics in your answer.

Study Fig. 5.1, which is a photograph of an area where subsistence farming takes place.

Fig 5.1 

(i)

What is meant by subsistence farming?

[1]

(ii)

Using evidence from Fig. 5.1 only, describe two features of farming in the area shown.
1 ..........................................................................................
2 ...........................................................................................

[2]

(iii)

Insert the following words into the table below to show examples of inputs, processes and outputs of the subsistence farmers who work in the area shown in Fig. 5.1.
Choose from the words below.

harvesting    milk    water
maize           seeds    weeding

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Study Fig. 5.2, which is a graph showing information about the world production of wheat and rice between 1980 and 2013.

Compare the world production of wheat and rice between 1980 and 2013. You should use statistics in your answer.