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BWAILA CLUSTER
2022/23 JCE END OF TERM ONE EXAMINATIONS

GEOGRAPHY
(100 Marks)
Subject number: J073
Tuesday, 6th December 2022 Time Allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
11:00AM – 01:30PM
Instructions
1. This paper contains 13 printed pages. Question Tick if Do not write
Please check. number answered in this column
2. This paper contains three sections: A, B 1 - 20
and C. 21

3. The maximum number of marks for the 22

answers is indicated against each 23

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question.
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4. Answer all questions. Some can be
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answered quickly, but others require
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considerable thought and may take
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longer.
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5. At the end of the examination, hand in
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your paper to the invigilator. 31
6. Write your name on top of the page. 32
7. In the table provided on this page, tick 33
against the question number you have
answered.

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SECTION A (20 marks)

Answer all questions in this section. Encircle the letter corresponding to the correct answer.

1. Which of the following is not a result of the 5. What is the mean daily temperature per
rotation of the earth? Mbinzi on that day?
A. Four seasons A. 200C
B. Rising and falling of tides in oceans B. 220C
C. Day and night C. 190C
D. Deflection of winds and ocean currents D. 210C
2. Which of the planets has only one satellite? 6. At what time did Mbinzi experience the
A. Earth lowest temperature on the day?
B. Jupiter A. 8 am
C. Neptune B. 12 pm
D. Saturn C. 15 pm
3. _____________is the path along which a D. 13 pm
planet revolves around the sun. 7. In which two countries does the Prime
A. Geoid Meridian pass through?
B. Contour A. Malawi and Tanzania
C. Orbit B. Britain and China
D. Galaxy C. Ghana and Britain
4. Which of the following is not the modern D. Malawi and Ghana
method of measuring weather elements? 8. The following are characteristics of
A. Thermometer longitudes except
B. Wind rose A. They are not parallels
C. Covaking frogs B. They are parallels
D. Barometer C. They are equal in length
D. They meet at the poles
Study the table below showing the temperature
9. Which of the following does not cause
of Mbinzi area on a certain day and answer the
questions that follow: climate change?

Tim 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 A. Increased agricultural activities

e am am am am pm pm pm pm pm
Te B. Deforestation
18 24 22 19 17 16 23 26 24
mp

C. Volcanic eruption
D. Drought
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10. Which of the following are the components A. i and ii

of the biosphere? B. i and iii
i. Lithosphere
C. ii and iii
ii. Hydrosphere
D. ii and iv
iii. Atmosphere
15. What does the following symbol mean
iv. People
when interpreting cloud cover
A. i ,ii , and iii
B. i ,iii ,and iv
C. ii ,iii ,and iv
D. i ,ii , and iv
11. The following are the importance of the A. Three –eighth cover
biosphere except B. Clear sky
A. Provides shelter to animals C. Sky hindered or obscured by fog
B. Purifies air D. Complete cloud cover
C. It is a source of medicine 16. Maps are different from Aerial
D. Reforestation and afforestation Photographs. Which of the following
12. How many days make a leap year? statements is true about how they differ,
A. 365 days A. Both are determined by scale
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B. 3654 days B. Maps do not show real features while
Aerial photographs show real features
C. 366 days
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C. Maps show every detail of an area
D. 3664 days
while Aerial photographs show
13. Population refers to selected details
A. Average number of people living in a D. Maps are drawn in a short period of
unit area time while Aerial photographs take
B. Total number of people living in a long time
given area at a given time 17. Maps are useful in the following ways
C. The maximum number of land users except,
D. The way population is spread out in an A. They are used to calculate time using
area longitudes
14. The following are factors that influence B. They are used to measure distance
population growth except, using latitudes
i. Immigration C. They are used to find directions using
ii. Disaster compass direction
iii. Natural increase D. They are used to show people’s race
iv. Emigration
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18. Which of the following are examples of C. Trigonometrical station and Bench
great circles? mark
A. Equator and Prime Meridian D. Valleys and Conical hill
B. Greenwich Meridian and Tropic of 20. Which one of the following is correctly
Cancer matched?
C. Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of 1
A. 2320N-Tropic of Capricorn
Capricorn
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D. Arctic circle and Equator B. 662 0S Anterctic circle
19. Which of the following are not ways of 10
C. 23 S-Tropic of Cancer
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showing relief on a map?
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D. 662 0S Arctic circle
A. Hill shading and layer tinting
B. Sport heights and Hachures

Section B (50 marks)

Answer all questions in this section in the spaces provided.

21. Figure below is a map of Nkhotakota.Use it to answer questions that follow:

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a. (i) What feature is found in four-figure grid reference 3266?

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(ii) Find the six-figure grid reference of the Post Office?
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b. Measure the distance of D204. Give your answer to the nearest kilometre.
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c. State any three ways in which land has been put to use on the map?
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d. Calculate the area of Nkhotakota map. Present your answer to the nearest square kilometre.
Show your work.

(3 marks)
e. If you were to reduce the map of Nkhotakota by half its original size, what would be the new
scale for the reduced map?
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f. State any three settlement patterns shown on the map?
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22. a. Define the term map?

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b. Name any one type of maps?
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c. Mention any two ways in which scale is expressed?
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d. Explain any two movements of the earth?
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e. (i) List any four inner planets in their order from the sun?
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(ii) Why are inner planets also known as terrestrial planets?
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f. (i) What are the natural disasters that mostly occur in Malawi? Give any two.
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(ii) Discuss any two effects of natural disasters?

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g. What is the tallest mountain in Malawi?
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23. a. Figure 1 below shows the hydrological cycle. Use it to answer the questions that follow:

Condensation

A
B

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(i) Name parts labelled

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B: ______________________________________________________________
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(ii) List any two examples on each of the following:
Hydrological cycle features
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Processes of Hydrological cycle

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(iii) Explain any two factors that can disturb the hydrological cycle?
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b. Define the word Ecosystem?
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c. Explain any two ways in which you can manage ecosystem in your communities?
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d. Give any one importance of Great Circles?
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e. What is a Contour line?
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24. a. Define a time zone?
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b. Time in Malawi (300E) will be 7pm when people will be watching a game between
Manchester United and Arsenal in London (0). What time will the match start? Show your
work?

(2 marks)
c. Name any two main gases in the atmosphere?
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(2 marks)
d. The diagram below shows layers of the atmosphere. Name the layer of atmosphere labelled
A?
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Section C (30 marks)

Answer all questions in an essay form in the spaces provided overleaf. Failure to answer the questions

in an essay form will lead to automatic loss of four marks.

25. a. Explain any three importance of the environment? (7 marks)

b. Describe any four ways of maintaining the biosphere? (8 marks)

26. a. Describe any three factors that affect the amount of sunshine? (6 marks)

b. Explain any four importance of Shire River? (9 marks)

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