S.6 Geography Paper 2 Holiday Work: Fishing, Industry, Forestry, Transport and Population

This two-page holiday assignment for Senior Six Geography Paper 2 has 19 essay-style questions on world economic geography. Students look at the factors behind fishing in Africa's inland waters and in major ocean fishing grounds, with case studies such as Norway and Angola. Other questions cover what drives or holds back industrial development, changes in where industries are located in the USA and South Africa, and how forestry develops in temperate and tropical countries, including Gabon, Sweden, Canada and Swaziland. The paper also covers transport in Africa, the Rhine waterway and the St. Lawrence Seaway, and population growth and distribution in developing countries. No marking guide is included.