What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0460 Geography papers and filtered to resource provision. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
Practice is free. You need an account only so your progress and your mistakes are still there next time.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on resource provision, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Giving no named example on a 7 mark question. The mark scheme caps you at 5, and on the desertification question it caps you at 5 for no place and at 6 for only one place.
- Naming a country but giving no detail inside it. Level 3 needs figures, dates or specific locations within the place.
- Answering "human and natural factors" with only one of the two.
- Writing only the disadvantages of a fuel when the question says benefits and disadvantages. Mark schemes reserve marks for each side.
- Confusing inputs with processes. Water is an input; irrigating is a process.
- Confusing food shortage with food insecurity. Insecurity is the wider idea, and it exists in high income countries too.
- Saying that renewable energy is free. The fuel is free; the construction is very expensive, which is exactly why many countries do not use it.
- Treating fuelwood as simply renewable. The syllabus states it can be either, and the reason is the rate of cutting against the rate of regrowth.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Resource provision revision notes.