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S5 Geography | Agriculture Paper 2 (Intermediate)
S5 Geography | Agriculture Paper 2 (Intermediate)
This paper does one thing: it uses freight and land rent to decide what a plot grows, multiplying freight by weight and deducting it before ranking crops.
Work out rent first, then the use Allow about thirty minutes; list revenue, cost and freight separately, subtract, then compare which crop can bid the higher rent.
01 Paper details (check answers afterwards)
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Questions | 10 items |
| Suggested time | About 30 minutes |
| Difficulty mix | Foundation 4 · Intermediate 3 · Challenge 2 · Error redo 1 |
| Chapter | Chapter: S5 Geography | Agriculture |
| Level | S5 (Secondary 5) Geography |
02 Questions (10 items)
- FoundationAgricultural location factors fall into which two groups? Give two examples of each.
- FoundationFreight costs 2 dollars per tonne-kilometre. What does it cost to move 60 tonnes 40 kilometres and 120 kilometres, and what is the difference?
- FoundationSite A has 50 hectares at 5 tonnes each, site B 70 hectares at 3.6. What are the totals and which is larger?
- FoundationWhy do vegetable farms usually sit closer to the city than rice farms?
- IntermediateSite A earns 900,000 with costs of 600,000; site B earns 700,000 with costs of 550,000. What rent does each support, and which land is more valuable?
- IntermediateThe price falls from $4.00 to $3.40 a tonne with costs unchanged. What happens to revenue on 200 tonnes, in dollars and per cent?
- IntermediateWages are 45 per cent of costs on farm A and 18 per cent on farm B. Which is labour-intensive, and what is the wage gap if both spend $2,000,000?
- ChallengeEach tonne nets $120 and freight costs $3 per tonne-kilometre. How far from market can the farmer still break even?
- ChallengeAt 25 kilometres, vegetables earn $40,000 a hectare at a cost of $22,000 with 10 tonnes and $6 freight per tonne-kilometre; grain earns $26,000 at a cost of $14,000 with 4 tonnes and $3 freight. What rent does each support?
- Error redoA student multiplies distance only and concludes 60 tonnes and 20 tonnes cost about the same over 40 kilometres. What is the real ratio and what went wrong?
03 Answers and one-line notes
| # | Answer | One-line note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physical factors such as climate and soil, and human factors such as market, transport, labour and government policy. | Physical factors set what can grow, while human factors decide whether farmers grow it and can sell it, so site choice weighs both. |
| 2 | 4,800 for 40 kilometres and 14,400 for 120, a difference of 9,600. | Weight times distance times rate: 60 times 40 times 2 is 4,800, and 60 times 120 times 2 is 14,400. |
| 3 | A gives 250 tonnes, B gives 252, so B is slightly larger. | Fifty times five is 250 and seventy times 3.6 is 252, so B leads by 2 tonnes. |
| 4 | Vegetables spoil quickly and are bulky, so proximity to the market cuts losses and freight. | Perishable produce carries a high time cost, so shorter hauls mean less spoilage and vegetables outbid other uses for land near the market. |
| 5 | A supports 300,000 and B 150,000, so A is more valuable. | Rent is revenue less cost: 900,000 minus 600,000 leaves 300,000, and 700,000 minus 550,000 leaves 150,000, a gap of 150,000. |
| 6 | From $800 to $680, a fall of 15 per cent. | Two hundred times 4.00 is 800 and times 3.40 is 680, a fall of 120, which is 15 per cent of the original. |
| 7 | A is labour-intensive; the gap is $540,000. | The 27 percentage-point gap times the same $2,000,000 base gives $540,000, so percentage points must be applied to a common base. |
| 8 | Up to 40 kilometres. | Net return over freight per kilometre, 120 over 3, gives 40 kilometres, beyond which freight swallows the whole margin. |
| 9 | Vegetables 16,500 and grain 11,700, so vegetables take the land. | Vegetables: 40,000 less 22,000 less 10 times 6 times 25 leaves 16,500. Grain: 26,000 less 14,000 less 4 times 3 times 25 leaves 11,700. |
| 10 | Actually 4,800 against 1,600, a factor of 3; the weight was left out. | Freight is weight times distance times rate: 20 times 40 times 2 is 1,600 against 60 times 40 times 2 is 4,800, so triple the weight means triple the freight. |
04 What to do after marking
- After marking, redo only the wrong items and write down which step went wrong (formula, unit, or misread number).
- Repeat the same item two days later; move to the next paper only when both attempts are correct.
- Parents only need the answer and note columns; there is no need to explain every item.
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