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VERIFIED GEOGRAPHY OBJ
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(2a)
i. Industrialisation- highly industrialisation as many different types of industries are present, these attract people to the area.
ii. Immigration: many people from different part of the world migrate for employment oppurtunities which abound as a result of the concentration of industries
iii. Improved medical facilities: coupling with well trained medical personnel favours the increase in population
iv. Presence of mineral resource: when a particular country is blessed with many resources which make mining activities possible
(2b)
i. Pressure on Natural resources
ii. Unemployment
iii. Pressure on social amenties
iv. Inadquate health services
(2c)
i. Provision of gainful employment for women: This will enable them to be occupied with something else rather breeding children day and night
ii. Encouragement of emigration: This will also ensure the movement of people from thickly populated to low populated areas.
(3a)
-manufactured goods such as clothes,
machinery, cars, computers etc
-agricultural products such as wheat
rubber, oil palm, cotton, etc


(3b)
-diffrences in climate:this reason favours
the growing of different crops for
export.
-differences in import duties and price:
the higher, the import duties imposed
on imported determines world trade
-differences in taste:goods produced in
one country may be the favourite of the
other people elsewhere.
-differences in technology: there are
differences in skill and technical
knowledge which are used for the
production of different goods and
services. thus each country want to
specialise in the production of goods
and services for which it has the
techincal know how.
Q3c
-productivity
- Relative inflation
- exchange rate – Cost of Doing Business


(4b)
i. It is faster than any other means of transportation
ii. It uses direct routes and Air routes do not require
maintenance
iii. It can carry valuables and perishable cargo
iv. It can reach inaccessible areas provided there are
landing factilities
(4c)
i. Low level of technology
ii. Poor management
iii. There is the problem of inadequate spare part
iv. Weather hazards e.g harmattan, linesqualls may limit
air transportation
(5b)
i. improvement of standard of benefit
ii. infrastructural development
iii. Provision for essential goods


(5c)
i. Inadqeuate capital to exploit the mineral
ii. poor transport Network
iii. Difficult terrain increases operation cost