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Resource Exploitation:Mining in Zimbabwe

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:28:24+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Chiadzwa Diamond Mine. Image credit mining.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources:Resource Exploitation, Mining in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has a wide mineral resource base which is exploited commercially.
Large scale mining is dominated by foreign transnational companies such as Anglo-American, Rio Tinto and Ashanti Gold Fields.
The majority of the local […]

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Zimbabwean forests: Mopani Savanna woodland

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:20:07+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Mopane trees in Matebeland Zimbabwe. Image credit flickr.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Forestry: Zimbabwean forests: Mopani Savanna woodland

Also known as mopane
This type of woodland is mainly confined to parts of the middle and Lowveld, between 400 and 900 metres above sea level.
Rainfall decreases as one […]

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Types of Forests: Deciduous temperate forests

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:00:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Deciduous temperate forest. Image credit thinglink.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources : Deciduous temperate forests

These are also known as temperate deciduous forests or temperate broad-leaf forests.
They are dominated by trees that lose their leaves each year.
They are found in areas with warm, moist summers and mild winters

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Fresh water fishing outside Malawi

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:36:55+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

A boy fishing in a Lake. Image credit irinnews.org

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing:Lake fishing outside Malawi

Fresh water lake fishing also takes place in the rift valley lakes of East Africa for example Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, Lake Victoria between Tanzania and Uganda, as well as Lakes […]

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Solutions for sustaining the world’s fisheries

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:20:59+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Swimming fish. Image credit National Geographic

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing:Solutions for sustaining the world’s fisheries

Increasing fishing disputes have pressured the United Nations into action.
Through the Third United Nations Conference on the law of the Sea of 1974, the UN established a 200 nautical mile zone […]

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Energy resources in Zimbabwe

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T08:56:47+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Wood is a popular fuel source in Zimbabwe. Image credit Flickr.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Energy:Energy resources in Zimbabwe

The major sources of Zimbabwe’s electrical energy are coal from Hwange and water at Kariba HEP station.
Wood makes small but significant contributions.
All the oil products used in […]

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Depressions

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:22:22+02:00February 12th, 2025|O Level Geography, Weather and Climate|

The characteristics and weather pattern associated with a depression. Image by the BBC. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes.

Characteristics

This is an area of low pressure whose shape on a map is oval or circular.
It is represented […]

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Frost/Snow and Hail

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:05:00+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes, Weather and Climate|

A house and vehicle covered in snow. Image by Novinite. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Frost/Snow and Hail.

Snow/Frost

Caused by a sudden fall or drop in temperature.
With snow ice crystals are formed in the atmosphere.
When these small ice crystals collide with […]

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Calderas

By garikaib|2025-02-12T08:57:46+02:00February 12th, 2025|Landform Studies, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

El Boqueron caldera in El Salvador. Image credit Wikispaces.com ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Calderas

Calderas are very large craters often two or more kilometers in diameter that form at the top of volcanoes.
They are often deep extending downwards for a few hundred […]

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