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A-LEVEL GEOGRAPHY SEMINAR QUESTIONS online


These seminar questions were compiled by the late Kanyonza (RIP), formerly a teacher at Namilyango College. Edited by Kalema Golooba.
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QUESTION 1: TRINITY COLLEGE NABBINGO

(a) Account for the climatic differences between North-Eastern Kenya and the Northern shores of lake Victoria.

(b) Explain how climate affects land use in the two areas.

QUESTION 2: MT. ST. MARY’S NAMAGUNGA

Poor land management and population pressure have led to desertification in a third (1/3) of the world’s land area and the inhabitants are potentially at risk. Despite International efforts to halt it, the problem is worsening. How true is this statement?

QUESTION 3: NAMILYANGO COLLEGE

Examine the view that it is industrial rather than Agricultural development that will lead to Uganda’s economic development.

QUESTION 4: GAYAZA HIGH SCHOOL

(a) Discuss the process of chemical weathering.

(b) Giving specific examples, outline the effects of chemical wathering in the economic geography of either Uganda or Kenya.

QUESTION 5: ST. MARY’S COLLEGE KISUBI

How far is it true to say that people of dry areas in the less developed world can only rely on pastoralism for effective use of their land? Illustrate your answer with examples from either Somalia or Botswana.

QUESTION 6: MAKERERE COLLEGE SCHOOL

(a) To what extent are the problems facing livestock farmers of Uganda of their own making? (b) What solutions should be put in place to alleviate the problems mentioned above?

QUESTION 7: NABISUNSA GIRLS SCHOOL

“It is rainfall, and not temperature, soils and relief which exert the greatest influence on Agriculture in the tropics.” Evaluate the relevance of the above statement with reference to any particular region you have studied.

QUESTION 8 : RUBAGA GIRLS SCHOOL

(a) Justify the fact that true equatorial climate is limited in East Africa.

(b) Explain what is meant by the term relative ‘humidity’ and examine the factors that influence the humidity of a place.

QUESTION 9: NDEJJE S.S.S

(a) Giving specific examples, asses the obstacles which have hindered the development of manufacturing industries in Uganda.

(b) What steps are being taken to reactivate industrial development in Uganda?

QUESTION 10: PROGRESSIVE S.S.S

Examine the processes responsible for the formation of erosional glacial features on any one mountain in East Africa.

QUESTION 11: BUSOGA COLLEGE MWIRI

To what extent is it true to say that “Shortage of suitable land in Kigezi has led people of that area to devise other means of making land available for Agriculture?”

QUESTION 12: KING’S COLLEGE BUDDO

With reference to specific countries:

(a) Distiguish between the Intensive Market Gardening practiced in the developed world and the Intensive Subsistance Farming in the developing world.

(b) Discuss the limitations of transforming subsistance farming to commercially oriented farming in developing countries.

QUESTION 13: KIBULI S.S.S

(a) Distinguish between a cyclone and anti-cyclone.

(b) With reference to specific examples, examine the effects of tropical cyclones in the areas where they occur.


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