February 2025

Attitude

By |2025-02-12T09:16:21+02:00February 12th, 2025|English Language Notes, English Register|

Some student's attitude towards Maths. Image by WiseGeek. Some student’s attitude towards Maths. Image by WiseGeek. Register Attitude

Attitude refers to the way one thinks or feels about something. In register it usually used to refer to a position one has taken in the matter at hand. Attitude can be a […]

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Wind direction and speed

By |2025-02-12T09:14:35+02:00February 12th, 2025|O Level Geography, Weather and Climate|

A cup anemometer and windvane. Image by Noaa.gov. A cup anemometer and windvane. Image by Noaa.gov. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Wind direction and speed.

Wind is the movement of air across the earth’s surface due to differences in pressure between two regions. Air moves from high pressure regions to low […]

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Unintentional changes to weather

By |2025-02-12T09:42:04+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes, Weather and Climate|

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: People and Weather: Accidental Changes

Acid Rain

  • The smoke from burning fuels and chemical industries rises into the air and mixes with water vapour.
  • When the rain falls down it becomes acidic.
  • The acid rain is a weak acid made up of sulphuric and nitric acids.
  • Over, a long time (years for example), the rain […]
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Faulting

By |2025-02-12T09:28:52+02:00February 12th, 2025|Landform Studies, Notes, O Level Geography|

Common types of faults. Common types of faults. Image via Noaa.gov ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Faulting.

  • Lateral earth movements often produce very great stresses due to compressional forces (when plates move towards one another) and tensional forces (pulling apart).
  • These forces can cause fractures or breaks in the earth’s crust.
  • When breaks […]
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Landforms resulting from weathering

By |2025-02-12T09:18:17+02:00February 12th, 2025|Landform Studies, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Ruware/Dwala. Image credit WordPress.com Ruware/Dwala. Image credit WordPress.com ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Landforms resulting from weathering.

  • Weathering processes and usually in conjunction with other denudation processes such as water and wind erosion and mass wasting results in the formation of various landscapes.
  • In temperate and tropical latitudes these include:

1.Inselbergs/Monadnocks

  • The […]
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Wadis,Bahadas and the Desert Piedmont zone

By |2025-02-12T09:05:01+02:00February 12th, 2025|Hot Deserts, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Alluvial fan/Bajada/Bahada. Image credit MediaWiki Alluvial fan/Bajada/Bahada. Image credit MediaWiki ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Wadis and Bahadas

Wadis/Canyons

  • As already pointed out freak storms occur in deserts characterised by excessive precipitation over short periods of time.
  • Due to infiltration excess flow and even saturation excess flow there is significant run off in the […]
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Landforms resulting form river processes

By |2025-02-12T09:32:44+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes, River Processes|

Rapids near Niagara Falls. Image credit NiagaraFallsLive.com Rapids near Niagara Falls. Image credit NiagaraFallsLive.com ZIMSEC Geography Notes: Landforms resulting from river processes

  • A river through its processes of erosion, transportation and deposition forms several landforms.
  • These can be broadly divided into those landforms resulting from erosion and deposition.

Landforms […]

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Building Societies

By |2025-02-12T09:34:53+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

FBC Building Society. Image credit businessdaily.co.zw FBC Building Society. Image credit businessdaily.co.zw ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Money and Banking: Building Societies

Building Societies

  • Is a type of a financial institution.
  • A building society is a financial organization which pays interest on investments by its members and lends capital for the purchase or […]
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