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Paper 01
90 minutes
( )6 MAY 2010
3. Each item in this test has four suggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C), (D). Read each item you
are about to answer and decide which choice is best.
4. On your answer sheet, find the number which corresponds to your item and shade the space having
the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample item below.
Sample Item
The best answer to this item is "an ecosystem", so you should shade answer space (C).
5. If you want to change your answer, erase it completely before you fill in your new choice.
6. When you are told to begin, turn the page and work as quickly and as carefully as you can. If you
cannot answer an item, go on to the next one. You can come back to that item later. Your score
will be the total number of correct answers.
Which of the following is NOT a limiting The organisms found at Level II can BEST
factor in the process of photosynthesis? be described as
Which bacteria is responsible for the Egrets feeding on the parasites found on the
following conversion in the nitrogen cycle? backs of large animals such as cows
represent a symbiotic relationship called
Ammonium in soil > Nitrates in soil
(A) commensalism
(A) Nitrogen-fixing bacteria (B) competition
(B) Denitrifying bacteria (C) mutualism
(C) Nitrifying bacteria (D) parasitism
(D) Rhizobium bacteria
Population
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Time
8. Which of the following CORRECTLY represents the growth phases in the graph?
PQ QR RS
10. Which of the following combinations BEST 11. Decaying plant materials are converted to
describe a natural ecosystem? carbon dioxide by
I
Item 13 refers to the graph below, which 'o
shows how an ecosystem changes over time. u 2-
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0
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Time (days)
(A) 5.5
(B) 7.0
Time (months) (C) 7.5
(D) 8.0
13. The carrying capacity of the ecosystem is
LIKELY to occur when the population size
is 15. The growth rate over the first four days is
(A) 100 7_
(B) 250 (A)
4
(C) 330
(D) 400 1_
(B)
7
8_
(C) 4~
(D)
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16. The LOWEST total fertility rates are 19. Which factor is MOST likely to influence
associated with populations where women population dynamics?
have
(A) Age
(A) no access to birth control (B) Culture
(B) some education and economic (C) Education
control (D) Religion
(C) no education and economic
control
(D) the most access to birth control 20. The diagram below represents a human
population.
17. The 'total fertility rate' refers to the Births (B) TOTAL Deaths CD)
Immigration (I) POPULATION Emigration CE)
(A) average number of children that
would be born to a woman over
her lifetime The equation which represents an unchanged
(B) number of children a couple must population over a period of time is
bear to replace themselves
(C) number of live births per one (A)
thousand people in the population (B) B+E=D+I
(D) number of children that a woman (C) B=D+E+I
will bear in one year. (D)
Item 18 refers to the graph below. 21. The TOTAL annual production of goods and
services within an economy is referred to as
the
23. If the annual growth rate of Country X is 2%, Item 25 refers to the diagram below.
then the doubling time, in years, for Country
Xis
Water extraction
(A) 35 years
(B) 70 years
(C) 105 years
(D) 140 years
Total
fertility
rate
25. The diagram above illustrates the process
of
(A) desalination
(B) salt water intrusion
0 20 40 60 80 100 (C) salt water extrusion
Educated women (D) fresh "water intrusion
in population (%)
24. The change in fertility rate is NOT likely to I. in order to access electricity and
be attributed to piped water
II. in order to access better educational
(A) educated women marrying when they opportunities
are older III. to find more available agricultural
(B) educated women having their first land
child when they are older IV. due to increased mechanisation in
(C) education increasing a woman's agriculture
independence
(D) education resulting in increased (A) I and II only
access to contraceptives (B) I and III only
(C) I, II and III only
(D) I, II and IV only
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(A) Culture
(B) Migration
(C) Family planning programmes
(D) Social and economic status of women
Male U Females
10 8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 8 10
Percentage of Population
(A) 12
(B) 16
(C) 24
(D) 30
Items 29 - 30 refer to the graph below which shows the projected population
total up to 2100.
-H Developing countries
29. In 2025, the population in developing countries 30. The world's total population, in billions, for
is projected to surpass that of the developed the year 2000 was
countries by a factor of APPROXIMATELY
(A) 1.6
(A) 1.8 (B) 5.0
(B) 3.6 (Q 6.6
(C) 6.4 (D) 8.2
(D) 8.0
(A) agroforestry
(B) bioprospecting
(C) ecotourism
(D) logging
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34. Which of the following BEST describes the 37. Which of the following is a traditional
change in water quality due to contamination indigenous agricultural practice?
or pollution so that it is unsuitable for other
desirable services? (A) Contour farming
(B) Crop rotation
(A) Degeneration (C) Multiple cropping
(B) Degradation (D) Slash and bum
(C) Withdrawal
(D) Regeneration
38. Which of the following BEST defines the
term 'bioprospecting'?
35. Which of the following is NOT an example
of a designated conservation area? I. The collection of small quantities of
plant species for medicinal
(A) Lake purposes
(B) National park II. The collection of quantities of plant
(C) Nature reserve and animal species for economic
(D) Rivers purposes
III. The collection of small quantities of
plant and animal species for
36. Generally, the BEST long term method of genetic research
preventing extinction is by
(A) I only
(A) breeding endangered species in (B) I and III only
captivity (C) II and III only
(B) protecting the habitats of endangered (D) I, II, III
species
(C) providing food to endangered species
in the wild
(D) removing predators from areas that
contain endangered species
Item 39 refers to the table below which shows a management function for each of four categories of
protected areas.
(A) I
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
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40. Which of the following is NOT an 41. Measures used in the conservation of natural
environmental impact of mining for gold in resources include
the interior of Guyana?
I. sustainable yield management
(A) Airpollution II. use of appropriate technology
(B) Enrichment of waterways III. reduction and minimization of wastes
(C) Ground water contamination IV. physical conversion of vegetation and
(D) Soil erosion land
(A) I only
(B) III only
(Q I and II only
(D) I, II and III
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Items 43 - 45 refer to the graph below which shows the production of marine fish in a Caribbean
country over the period 1950 to 2000.
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9000
8000
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