Geography Exam S1

Question 1

What are some differences between the UK and Kenya?

Answer 1

The UK has fewer people.
The death rates in the UK are less.
99% of people go to school while only 75% do in Kenya.

Question 2

Where do most people in Kenya live?

Answer 2

They live in the southwest.

Question 3

What are the three main cities in Kenya, which have high population density?

Answer 3

Nairobi, Mombasa and Kericho.

Question 4

Why do Kenyans have more children than people in the UK?

Answer 4

Because of a higher infant mortality rate, babies are more likely to die when they are young. This means that Kenyans have more children to make sure that they have children at all. The birth rates are higher for these families. This is not the case in the UK, where we have a low infant mortality rate.

Question 5

Why is the population in Kenya so spread out?

Answer 5

The rural areas like the northeast are sparsely populated because there is little rain ad difficult to grow crops, while the urban areas, like the cities Nairobi and Kericho, are cooler and on higher land.

Question 6

What are the four “push” factors that send people out of the countryside?

Answer 6

Lack of jobs
Jobs are poorly paid
Farming the land is very difficult
Few schools and doctors

Question 7

What are the four “pull” factors that pull people to Nairobi?

Answer 7

Prospect of jobs
Entertainment and night-life
Better services
Better living standards?

Question 8

What happens when they arrive in Nairobi?

Answer 8

There are few jobs and houses, and they are forced to build their own houses in poor areas called shanty towns. The largest shanty town in Nairobi is Kibera.

Question 9

Why don’t the poice go into Kibera after 8pm.

Answer 9

There is too much gang violence and drug abuse fo theme to handle.

Question 10

What are the diseases in the Kibera slums?

Answer 10

Diseases such as cholera and typhoid.

Question 11

What is unusual about a lot of people in Kibera?

Answer 11

Despite their hardship, they are resilient, hard-working and smile t give their children hope, although some have lost all hope.

Question 12

How many people live in Kibera per square mile?

Answer 12

1 million!

Question 13

What kind of people are the Maasai?

Answer 13

The Maasai are semi-nomadic people, which means they have no fixed home, but move around from place to place.

Question 13

What are the problems of the Maasai huts?

Answer 13

They have no chimneys for smoke to escape, are less than 2m tall, and only have a small hole for light and air.

Question 14

What do Maasai men wear?

Answer 14

Brightly coloured blankets.

Question 14

What do Maasai women wear?

Answer 14

Women shave their heads and wear beads around their necks, wrists and ankles.

Question 15

Why are cows important to the Maasai?

Answer 15

They are used for trading and food, as they eat cows blood mixed with milk.

Question 16

What are the gender roles in the Maasai tribe?

Answer 16

Women collect sticks for firewood and water for cooking.

Men spend all day guarding the animals.

Question 17

What do the Maasai believe about the ground?

Answer 17

They believe the ground is sacred. This is why they don’t grow crops or dig wells.
It also means that dead animals and people are not buried but left for wild animals to eat.

Question 18

What is Kenya’s top industry and export?

Answer 18

Tea

Question 19

What types of industry do Kenya employ?

Answer 19

Primary and secondary, this means they extract raw materials and process and manufacture things using the raw materials.

Question 20

What is the first step of the tea making process?

Answer 20

Withering

Question 21

What is the second step of the tea-making process?

Answer 21

Rolling and shredding

Question 22

What is the third step of the tea-making process?

Answer 22

Fermentation .

Question 23

What is the fourth step of the tea-making process?

Answer 23

Firing

Question 24

What is the fifth step of the tea-making process?

Answer 24

Sieving and Grading

Question 25

What is the sixth and final step of the tea-making process?

Answer 25

Bagging

Question 26

What is the climate on tea farms?

Answer 26

The climate is cooler, damper and healthier than other parts of Kenya.

Question 27

What must happen before the tea is planted?

Answer 27

Before tea is planted the land must be cleared of vegetation

Question 28

How much of Kenya’s income are flower sales worth?

Answer 28

8%

Question 29

What type of workers are most flower workers?

Answer 29

Most are ‘casual’ so they do not get benefits and can be fired at any time.

Question 30

What happens when female workers become pregnant?

Answer 30

They get sacked on the spot.

Question 31

What is the pay of a Kenyan flower worker?

Answer 31

£1 per day.

Question 32

What is it like for the flower workers?

Answer 32

Workers start at 7am and cut 1,000 roses per hour.

Question 33

How much money do the farms earn?

Answer 33

20% of the year’s income is earned in just ten days. However, large foreign companies own almost 90% of all flower farms so most of their money does not stay in Kenya.

Question 34

What are the problems facing the flower industry?

Answer 34

It is blamed for falling water levels in the Rift Valley Lakes. There are also worries that fertilisers and pesticides are leaking into underground water, lakes and springs.

Question 35

What have the farms done to improve the working conditions?

Answer 35

They have signed up to the Kenyan Flower Council, which are enforcing the Fairtrade Code of Practise.

Question 36

Why are most of the flowers sent abroad?

Answer 36

Because Kenya does not celebrate Valentine’s Day.

Question 37

When did the first Fairtrade flowers go on sale?

Answer 37

In Teco in February 2004, for £5 and £8 bouquets.

Question 38

How many tourists visited Kenya in 2017?

Answer 38

More than a million, spending over $1 billion. Over 200,000 of those visitors were from Britain.