Cover each answer, write your working, then open the answer to compare. The questions mix the lessons of population and settlements.
Log your slips in the mistake log and paper-error review. Repeat the set later using the timed original practice session builder.
Part A: population numbers
Question 1. A district has 36 000 residents in 90 km². Find its density.
Answer
36 000 ÷ 90 = 400 per km².
Question 2. A region has crowded settlement on a flat coastal plain with a port, and few people in steep inland forest. Write two linked sentences explaining the pattern.
Answer
“People cluster on the coastal plain because flat land is easy to build on, and the port gives jobs and trade. The inland forest is sparse because steep slopes make building costly and leave little land for homes.”
Question 3. A town has 600 births, 200 deaths, 500 in-migrants and 900 out-migrants. Find the natural increase, the net migration and the total change.
Answer
Natural increase: 600 − 200 = +400. Net migration: 500 − 900 = −400. Total change: 400 + (−400) = 0, so the population stays the same even though both parts changed.
Question 4. A state has a density of 120 per km². Does this show that its capital is crowded? Explain.
Answer
No. The figure is an average over the whole state. The capital could be far denser or far sparser than 120, and district data would be needed to say.
Part B: migration, settlements and growth
Question 5. A family leaves a village after the local school closes and rubber prices fall. They move to a town with factory jobs. Name the two push factors and one pull factor.
Answer
Push factors: the school closure and the fall in rubber prices, because they make the village less attractive. Pull factor: the factory jobs, because they draw people to the town.
Question 6. A town has a jetty, a customs office, warehouses and a container yard. Name its main function and give the evidence.
Answer
Main function: port and trading. Evidence: the jetty and container yard handle cargo, the warehouses store it and the customs office controls its movement.
Question 7. Town P’s population rises from 80 000 to 100 000. Find the percentage increase.
Answer
Increase: 100 000 − 80 000 = 20 000. Then 20 000 ÷ 80 000 × 100 = 25%.
Part C: wording
Question 8. Rewrite for an SPM answer: “Migrants make the city dirty.” The city’s population grew by 30 000 in five years.
Answer
“A rise of 30 000 residents in five years may increase the amount of waste to collect and the demand for housing, if services do not expand at the same pace.”
The sentence names a change in numbers and a pressure, and does not blame a group.
If you got these wrong
- Questions 1, 2 and 4: study population distribution and density and reading population distributions.
- Questions 3, 7 and 8: revisit population growth, structure and migration.
- Question 6: read settlements and urbanisation.
- Question 5: read the lesson on explaining migration push and pull factors.
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