CAPE Environmental Science Unit 1 · 2011 · Paper 2 · Question 4(c)(ii)
Explain how population increase can impair a country's ability to achieve sustainable development.
The mark scheme is shown once you've answered.
Practise this questionOther parts of this question
- 4(a)(i)Complete the bar chart by inserting the missing bars for Country B (urban) and Country C (rural), assuming each country's population consists only of rural and…[2 marks]
- 4(a)(ii)Compare the urban and rural population distribution across the three countries.[3 marks]
- 4(a)(iii)Explain how population growth in Country B may have resulted in its observed population distribution.[4 marks]
- 4(b)Outline two environmental impacts associated with the pattern of population distribution seen in Country C.[6 marks]
- 4(c)(i)Define the term sustainable development.[2 marks]
More practice: the rest of this paper · more Resource Consumption, Urbanisation, and Sustainability questions · all CAPE Environmental Science Unit 1 past papers