Question 1
State five ways in which the Kenya government assists dairy farmers
Answer
- Setting up demonstration centers to create awareness on livestock management.
- Improve transport
- Improve pasture
- Building watering points by constructing dams and sinking boreholes.
- Opening Ranches
- Improve transport
- Improve pasture
- Building watering points by constructing dams and sinking boreholes.
- Opening Ranches
Question 2
- What is polder
- State three benefits of the Zuyder Zee project in the Netherland
Answer
- - Polder is the land reclaimed from the sea
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- Increased the land for Agriculture
- It has controlled the floods.
- Has created land for settlement/urbanization
Question 3
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Identify the fishing method represented by the diagram below
- State three ways through which fish farming contributes to the economy of Kenya.
Answer
- Trawling
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- provide an alternative source of protein
- it saves foreign exchange
- Encourages development of infrastructure.
Question 4
- State three ways of promoting Eco-tourism in Kenya
- State two reasons why domestic tourism should be encouraged in Kenya
Answer
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- It is encouraged by staring economic benefits accrued from tourism with local community
- Local community takes free ride in wildlife buses into and out of game parks thereby becoming custodians of wildlife.
- By telescopic viewing animals and their habitats are not interfered with.
- Advice tourists in tourist’s sites to following marked trails thereby not damaging environment. -
- To utilize facilities like hotels during low tourist season.
- In order for Kenyans’ to learn more about their own country
- To create employment opportunities
Question 5
- Define energy crisis
- State three advantages of using Hydro-Electric power
Answer
- Energy crisis is a situation whereby the demand for oils is higher than the amount that is being supplied leading to high oil prices.
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- It is non-exhaustible / renewable
- Non pollutant/ clean to use
- Relatively cheap