A class of students were studying traffic flow at a busy road junction near their school. A sketch map of the road junction is shown in Fig. 7 (Insert).
The students wanted to investigate the following hypotheses:
Hypothesis 1: Traffic flow changes during the day.
Hypothesis 2: Traffic congestion occurs at all sites going towards and away from the road junction.
The students chose eight sites to do traffic surveys. These are shown on Fig. 7.
They agreed to do four separate counts lasting one hour at the following times:
08.00 to 09.00
11.00 to 12.00
14.00 to 15.00
17.00 to 18.00

Q: What topic does this question test?

This question tests Population and settlement in O-Level Geography (syllabus code 2217). It is worth 30 marks.

Q: Which exam paper is this question from?

This question appeared in the Cambridge O-Level Geography May/June 2013 examination, Paper 2 Variant 3 (2217_s13_qp_23.pdf).

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A class of students were studying traffic flow at a busy road junction near their school. A sketch map of the road junction is shown in Fig. 7 (Insert).
The students wanted to investigate the following hypotheses:
Hypothesis 1: Traffic flow changes during the day.
Hypothesis 2: Traffic congestion occurs at all sites going towards and away from the road junction.
The students chose eight sites to do traffic surveys. These are shown on Fig. 7.
They agreed to do four separate counts lasting one hour at the following times:
08.00 to 09.00
11.00 to 12.00
14.00 to 15.00
17.00 to 18.00

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