Ghana

Question 1

Name the three main climates in Ghana

Answer 1

Savanna, Costal Savanna, Tropical Rainforest

Question 2

Describe the Savanna in Ghana

Answer 2

V.hot and dry, droughts are common.

One rainy season a year, tall grass acacia and baobab trees. Desertification a growing concern

Question 3

Describe the Costal Savanna in Ghana

Answer 3

Quite hot and dry all year round, 2 rainy seasons

Vegetation: tall grass,thick leaves shrubs and baobab

Question 4

Describe the Tropical Rainforest in Ghana

Answer 4

Hot and wet all year round, 2m of rain a year

Only1/4 of rainforest left

Question 5

Why is only a 1/4 of Ghana’s tropical rainforest left?

Answer 5

Loggers, cocoa farmers, native’s collecting firewood

Question 6

What is the rough population of Ghana?

Answer 6

26.25 million people

Question 7

What percentage of people in Ghana are the age of 0-14?

Answer 7

30%

Question 8

What percentage of people in the UK are the ages 0-14?

Answer 8

6%

Question 9

What percentage of people in Ghana are the ages 15-64?

Answer 9

65%

Question 10

What percentage of people in he UK are the ages 15-64?

Answer 10

70%

Question 11

What percentage of people in Ghana are the ages 65+?

Answer 11

5%

Question 12

What percentage of people in the UK are the ages 65+?

Answer 12

24%

Question 13

What does the amount of people in different age groups show about Ghana and the UK?

Answer 13

Much more children in Ghana

But shows how the UK is a ageing population

Question 14

What is he most popular type of work in the UK?

Answer 14

The service sector

Question 15

What is the most popular type of work in Ghana and what could this show?

Answer 15

Farming, could show the sign of a LEDC

Question 16

What does the River Volta provide Ghana?

Answer 16

Hydroelectricity ( 2/3 of electricity)

Fishing

Question 17

What does wild life do for Ghana?

Answer 17

Attracts tourists

Question 18

What do they mine Ghana?

Answer 18

Gold, Diamonds, Bauxite, Manganese

Question 19

What is the natural resource of trees used for?

Answer 19

Timber (disappearing)

Question 20

What is Ghana the 2nd biggest producer of?

Answer 20

Cocoa

Question 21

How much natural gas and oil does Ghana have?

Answer 21

A lot of natural gas

Not enough offshore oil, imports a lot

Question 22

What does a TNC stand for?

Answer 22

Trans National Corporation

Question 23

Name why Ghana may be a LEDC

Answer 23

Very little money stays in Ghana ,goes to TNCs
import high cost machines and export low value farming products.
Doesn’t have money to build factories
Rapidly growing population and don’t go to school so lack of skilled workmen

Question 24

When did the 1st Europeans arrive in Ghana?

Answer 24

1471

Question 25

When did slave traders beg exporting slaves from Ghana,how long and how many?

Answer 25

1650, lasted for 150 years, over 100,000 slaves

Question 26

When did Ghana become a British colony?

Answer 26

1901

Question 27

How did the British abuse Ghana from 1901-1957?

Answer 27

Used as a source of raw materials | Did little to develop country

Question 28

What is the formula for the rate of actual population increase?

Answer 28

(Birth rate+immigration)-(Death rate+emigration)

Question 29

What is the formula for gar rate of natural increase?

Answer 29

Birth rate-Death rate

Question 30

Where is Ghana situated?

Answer 30

Southern area of the African 'bulge'. Latitude is 5.5 and longitude 0 Surrounded by Togo, Côté d'Ivoire,and Burkina Faso

Question 31

Since the population is growing rapidly in Ghana what is the government spending its money on?

Answer 31

The rapidly growing population not the development of the country

Question 32

What types of resources does Ghana have?

Answer 32

Natural resources | Human resources

Question 33

What is the greatest potential to earn for Ghana?

Answer 33

Bauxite, but to convert from ore to metal uses a lot of power. So they made the Akosombo dam to produce HEP

Question 34

What does HEP stand for?

Answer 34

Hydro Electric Power

Question 35

On what river was the Akosombo dam created?

Answer 35

River Volta

Question 36

What is the two things needed to make aluminium?

Answer 36

Bauxite and alumina

Question 37

How did Ghana afford to build the Akosombo dam?

Answer 37

Loaned money from world bank UK, USA

Question 38

Since Ghana loaned money to build the Akosombo dam what did the company Valco get?

Answer 38

The right to use it to make aluminium

Question 39

Why does Ghana want to sell aluminium rather than Bauxite?

Answer 39

As Bauxite sells for much less, even if you do have to buy Alumina

Question 40

Why is the Akosombo dam good for the people of Ghana?

Answer 40

More electricity for people, people can fish, constant water source Jobs for making Bauxite, money for Ghana, also tourism and new roads

Question 41

What are the advantages for the company Valco?

Answer 41

Nearby power source to create Bauxite, earn more money, also majority of resources from Ghana

Question 42

What are the disadvantages to Ghana from dam?

Answer 42

Most money made to them+ paying off debt to other countries. Had to move villages and average person not affected by it.

Question 43

What are the problems that still remain in Ghana from the Akosombo dam?

Answer 43

Valco were using none of Ghana's Bauxite, paying half the amount than local businesses, although still uses more than half power made Didn't even pay tax on importing alumina and export aluminium Droughts=less electricity, Valco used less. Ghana had to use Bauxite even if worth much less. Not used for farming but fishing

Question 44

What are the pros of the company Valco for Ghana?

Answer 44

Jobs,some money to pay debt,new roads and routes for Ghana

Question 45

What are the cons of the company Valco for Ghana?

Answer 45

Less electricity for others, Valco takes most of profit, they pay low rates for the electricity

Question 46

What are the pros of Ghana removing the company Valco?

Answer 46

more electricity for others,Ghana makes money themselves, more money from the dam

Question 47

What are the cons of Ghana removing the company Valco?

Answer 47

less profit,Ghana's villages do not make money

Question 48

What are the pros of Ghana removing the company Valco and to carry on producing aluminium?

Answer 48

more profit would be made, Ghana would be self-sufficent

Question 49

What are the cons of Ghana removing the company Valco and to carry on producing aluminium?

Answer 49

Machines are expensive,have to buy alumina, no short-term profit

Question 50

In which part of Ghana is there a big water problem?

Answer 50

Northern Ghana in the savanna

Question 51

Give a few examples of water-borne diseases which are in Ghana

Answer 51

Cholera,typhoid,dysentery, diarrhoea | They can lead to dehydration and bilharzia (worms in the intestine)

Question 52

What is water like in the south of Ghana?

Answer 52

Polluted and mainly comes from shallow wells often too close to effluent (human waste) pits, which contaminates the water

Question 53

What charity is the biggest provider for new wells in Ghana?

Answer 53

Wateraid

Question 54

What do Wateraid do in Ghana?

Answer 54

They teach village people how to build a well, then they supply the required materials. Then they teach the village to repair and maintain the well

Question 55

What does a Wateraid well use to filter the water?

Answer 55

Soil and rock filters

Question 56

Where does a Wateraid well get its water from?

Answer 56

The water table which is produced from rainwater

Question 57

How can a well help people in Ghana?

Answer 57

It can help them economically (more income), socially as they make their lives better generally

Question 58

Name the economic effects a well can have on a village in Ghana

Answer 58

More people cook food to sell, more people selling iced water, clothing and homes kept cleaner

Question 59

How does a well help a village socially in Ghana?

Answer 59

``` Teachers want to stay in village locals have more pride in village no fights about water with other villages, less time to fetch water cooked food looks much better less far walking for water (less tired) ```

Question 60

How does a well affect people socially and economically in Ghana?

Answer 60

less illness so less spent on medicine, potters can produce more pots, more young people have time to go to school, visitors can have fresh clean drinking water

Question 61

In a LEDC and a MEDC what is the birth rate typically?

Answer 61

LEDC:high MEDC:low

Question 62

In a LEDC and a MEDC what is the death rate typically like?

Answer 62

LEDC and MEDC: low

Question 63

In a LEDC and a MEDC what is the rate of natural increase typically like?

Answer 63

LEDC: High MEDC:Low

Question 64

In a LEDC and a MEDC what is the infant mortality typically like?

Answer 64

LEDC:High MEDC:Low

Question 65

In a LEDC and a MEDC what is the adult literacy typically like?

Answer 65

LEDC:Low MEDC:High

Question 66

In a LEDC and a MEDC what is the life expectancy typically like?

Answer 66

LEDC:Low MEDC:High

Question 67

In a LEDC and a MEDC what is the daily calorie intake typically like?

Answer 67

LEDC:Low MEDC:High

Question 68

In a LEDC and a MEDC what is the GDP per capita typically like?

Answer 68

LEDC:Low MEDC:High

Question 69

In a LEDC and a MEDC what is energy consumption typically like?

Answer 69

LEDC:Low MEDC:High

Question 70

In a LEDC and a MEDC what is the employment structure typically like?

Answer 70

LEDC:High primary MEDC:High tertiary

Question 71

What is adult literacy?

Answer 71

No. people +18 per 1000 who can read and write to a given standard

Question 72

What is the energy consumption and what is the formula for it?

Answer 72

The use of power production from a country | divided by the countries population

Question 73

What is a country's employment structure?

Answer 73

Type of jobs people have usually in a %