Geography Statistics

Question 1

Proof of deforestation

Answer 1

17% of the Amazon has been deforested in the last 50 years

Question 2

Why is the Amazon important?

Answer 2

• Provides 1/5 of the world’s freshwater
• Provides 1/5 of the oxygen we breathe

Question 3

Effects of Deforestation:

Answer 3

Effects of Deforestation:
- Cultivated land loses 90 million tonnes of soil per hectare (due to surface runoff)
- £123 billion have been made from cattle ranching in the Amazon as a result of deforestation
- 5% of Brazil’s GDP comes from soya bean farming
- Brazil is now the world’s largest exporter of beef

Question 4

Why the Thar Desert is important:

Answer 4

• 9th largest subtropical desert
• Largest population density of a desert 83 per km²

Question 5

Opportunities in the Thar Desert:

Answer 5

• Tourism (festivals in Jaisalmer and Jodhpur attract 500 000 a year)
• Mineral Extraction (3 million tonnes of selenite and gypsum produced a year)
• Farming (Indira Ghandi Canal made in 1958 revolutionised irrigation for farming)
• Energy (any 75 wind turbines have the capacity to produce 60 megawatts of electricity)

Question 6

Why is tourism important in Kenya?

Answer 6

Tourism brings in US$5.3billion to Kenya’s economy

11% of the total wage employment is accounted for by tourism and earnings from tourism allow the government to reduce their level of debt

Travel & Tourism generated 226,500 jobs directly in
2013, indirectly 11.6% of Kenyan’s jobs rely on tourism

Money spent by tourists in 2014 within Kenya was
17% of Kenya’s exports.

7.6% of Kenya’s capital investment comes from tourism

Question 7

Shell in Nigeria:

Answer 7

-96% of workers are nigerian
- Employees often work long hours (12+) in poor conditions in factories known as ‘sweat shops’

Question 8

Life expectancy in the north and south

Answer 8

Life expectancy is higher in Cambridge at 79.5 years than in Liverpool at 75.7 years - evidence of the North-South divide