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O-LevelGeographyThe natural environmentOct/Nov 2012Paper 2 Q730 Marks

A geography student was studying local weather conditions. He decided to do an investigation of rainfall and wind direction at his school and at a coastguard station about 60km away. The locations of the school and coastguard station are shown on Fig. 8 (Insert). He tested the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: There is more daily rainfall at school than at the coastguard station. Hypothesis 2: There is more rainfall on days when the wind is blowing from the south and south west.

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About This O-Level Geography Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge O-Level Geography (2217) Oct/Nov 2012 examination, Paper 2 Variant 3. It tests the topic of The natural environment and is worth 30 marks.

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