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O-LevelGeographyPopulation and settlementMay/June 2014Paper 2 Q830 Marks

Students were studying different residential areas of cities in MEDCs. They decided to do some fieldwork to compare different types of housing area in the 'inner city'. They chose to study three areas: • Area A: an area of houses which were built around 1850 • Area B: an area of terraced houses which were built around 1920 • Area C: an area of houses and apartment blocks which were built when the area was redeveloped around 1990 The students investigated the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: The newer the housing area the better the environment. Hypothesis 2: Parking and traffic are problems for people living in all three inner city areas.

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About This O-Level Geography Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge O-Level Geography (2217) May/June 2014 examination, Paper 2 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Population and settlement and is worth 30 marks.

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