Geography Paper 1, May/June 2007

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Geography Paper 1 ,May/June 2007

Questions:		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8		Main

General Comments
Weakness/Remedies
Strength

Question 2

The Table 1 below shows the volume of air passenger traffic between Lagos and four other cities in Nigeria in1985. Study the table and use the data in it to answer the questions that follow:

S/N	Route	No. Of Passengers
1	Lagos – Abuja	500,000
2	Lagos – Enugu	200,000
3	Lagos – Port Harcourt	400,000
4	Lagos – Sokoto	300,000

Table 1 - Volume of air passenger traffic between Lagos and four other cities in Nigeria in 1985.
(a) Using the attached map of Nigeria - Map B; construct a flow map/chart to represent the data in
Table 1.

(b) State two advantages of representing data with flow maps.

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Observation

This question was very unpopular among the candidates and the performance of the few that attempted it was poor.

In part (a) most of the candidates were not able to choose suitable scales with which to draw the flow map/chart. Some did not know what flow map means yet they went ahead to answer the question. Some candidates drew pie charts, bar graphs and scored zero.

In part (b) some candidates could not also state the advantages of flow maps. They were expected to state the advantages of flow map/chart as follows:

- They give vivid impression of the traffic flow between two stations.
- The size of the builds or number of lines gives impression of the volume of traffic.
- Factual information may also be written on the flow line or alongside it.
- It is the most commonly used method of representing movement.
- Easy to compare from the thickness of the bands.