=========================== The 100% Correct 2014 Waec Gce Geography Answers invite your Students In the Hall Now… Tell them about Gurusreader THANKS FOR COMING TO GURUSREADER.COM ======================================== VERIFIED GEOGRAPHY OBJ 1BABBBACAAC 11CBBDCDDACD 21DDDDCDBACC 31DCACBBCAAB 41DDCDDDACBC (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. (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 4b. 1. air transport is large and labour intensive industry. Thousands of Nigerians are employed in the sector employed of labour in the industry include airlines, airport authorities, civil aviation authorities, travel agencies, freight companies, aircraft handling companies, security agencies (Air force, Fire Fighters) and so on. For example, Nigeria Airways alone at its prime in 1982 had 10,634 employees. 2. Air transport has indirectly helped the business to grow at and around the various airport terminals. Such as hotel and tourism businesses, boutique, road haulage business, car hire services as well as buying and selling of vary dimensions. Those businesses are source of gainful employment to many Nigerians. 3. Another contribution of air transport which is closely related to job creation is that it aids mobility of labour. For example, oil companies are particularly making use of this air advantage transporting their staff to and from Lagos or Port Harcourt to their off shore installation oil on daily basis. 4. Air transport promotes trade and commerce:- The improvement in air transport and communication worldwide has reduced the world to nothing more than a global village and it is bringing about a continuous increase in specialization. A considerable proportion of Nigerian export and import businesses are being transacted by air. Produce like Gum Arabic, Kolanut among others are being exported by air while a lot of finished products from overseas are being imported into Nigeria by air. (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
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