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Geography- Answers

3 a )

I ) It creates better accessibility to markets .

Ii ) It creates employment and additional investments .

Iii ) It leads to reduction in economic cost of commodities .

Iv ) Transportation links together the factors of production in a complex web of relationships between producers and

consumers.

v ) It leads to improvement in communication of skills and ideas .

3 b )

i ) It limits diffusion of ideas and technology: Poor transportation limits the diffusion of the new ideas and technology or innovations which contributes to economic growth

ii) It limits industrial growth: Poor transportation does limit industrial growth as raw materials, services and finished goods are not easily transported to the points of their need .

iii ) It discourages investors: Investors are usually discouraged where there are poor development in transportation

iv ) Inadequate exploitation of natural resources : Poor transportation can limit effective exploitation of natural resources in the area which tends to affect the Economic growth of a nations

v ) inefficient transportation

increases the costs of commodities .

4 a )

I ) The absence of the tse – tse fly on the open grassland allows for rearing of animals .

Ii ) Availability of Minerals such as kaolin , gypsum , limestone, laterite, red

mills , phosphate both yellow and green, shade clay, sand allow for situation of cement industry in the area .

Iii ) Large scale farming can also be practiced in the state using irrigation water from dams .

Iv ) Farming activities due to availability of fertile land .

4 b )

i ) inadequate rainfall makes farming difficult

ii) high temperature results to drought

iii ) problem of desert encroachment due to nearness to sahara desert

iv ) inadequate rainfall makes living to be difficult .

4 c )

i ) provision of adequate basic facilities

ii) industrialization of the area

iii ) improving their medical facilities

iv ) improvement of agricultural activities in

the area .

5 a )

drawing coming

5 b )

I ) poor transportation and communication links

Ii ) taste for foreign goods

Iii ) low level of technology

Iv ) Government policies that are not friendly to industrial development .

v ) inadequate capital,

5 c )

I ) Improvement of transportation and communication links

Ii ) Banning of importation of certain goods

Iii ) Improvement in level

of technology

Iv ) Changing Government policies that are not friendly to industrial development .

v ) Provision of adequate capital to entrepreneurs by government in form of loan

1 ai)

Characteristic of Domestic trade

i ) Domestic trade is carried on within the

boundaries of one country .

ii) In Domestic trade goods are carried on from one place to another place through railways and roadways .

iii ) In Domestic trade payment is made or

received in local currency .

iv ) In Domestic trade wide choice of goods are available .

1 aii )

Characteristics of International Trade:

i ) Separation of Buyers and Producers

ii) Foreign trade involves payments in foreign currency .

iii ) Restrictions : Imports and exports involve a number of restrictions by different countries .

iv ) there is Need for Middlemen:

1 b )

I ) By use of improved means of transportation and communication links

Ii ) By the use of fixed currencies

Iii ) Improvement in the level of technology

1 c )

I ) It serves as source foreign revenue for the government

Ii ) It helps to create employment

Iii ) It serves as a source of exchange for foreign goods