February 2025

Fish processing and marketing

By |2025-02-12T09:35:52+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Sun dried Kapenta. Image credit blogspot.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing: Fish processing and marketing

  • Subsistence and commercial fishers employ more or less the same processing methods.
  • The high tropical temperatures mean that fish go bad very quickly after being landed from the lakes rivers and swamps.
  • Small […]
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Problems affecting the world’s fishing industry

By |2025-02-12T09:20:40+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Over fishing is one of the problems facing the fish industry. Image credit MediaWiki

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing:Problems affecting the world’s fishing industry

  • Slight changes in conditions in the continental shelves alter the food chain.
  • This reduces fish production.
  • An example is the decline in anchovy fish […]
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Small scale energy sources: Wood stove

By |2025-02-12T09:45:48+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Wood stove. Image credit quadrafire.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Energy:Small scale energy sources and plants:Wood stove

  • A wood stove is a heating appliance capable of burning wood fuel and wood-derived biomass fuel, such as wood pellets.
  • Wood stove are usually made using a combination of metal(iron) and bricks
  • […]

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Factors that affect the Spheres of influence

By |2025-02-12T09:03:29+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

The city of Harare has the largest sphere of influence. Image credit

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Settlements:Factors that affect  the Spheres of influence

  • The most important factor in determining the sphere of influence of a settlement is it’s size
  • Products and services can also be used to determine a settlement’s […]
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Human Farm Inputs: Farm machinery

By |2025-02-12T09:00:16+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Farm Tractors are widely used equipment.

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Human Farm Inputs: Farm machinery

Farm machinery

  • This is a very crucial human input in that it determines the productive capacity of a farming system.
  • The machinery used depends on the technological advancements of that community.
  • Machinery helps in making work light in […]
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Factors influencing farming: Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:28:57+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Farmers looking for pests on bean crop. Image credit Flicker.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Factors influencing farming: Introduction

  • The output of a farm is affected by :
  • The physical conditions of the environment
  • This includes conditions like climate,
  • soil and biotic factors of insects,
  • pests and diseases.
  • Farming is also influenced […]
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Cotton farming in Zimbabwe

By |2025-02-12T09:34:27+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cotton field. Farmer.co.zw

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:Cotton farming in Zimbabwe

Growing conditions and growing area

  • Zimbabwe is the largest producer of the crop in Africa south of the Sahara.
  • A bush crop grown in summer using dry land farming.
  • Rainfall at least 600 mm in the growing season.
  • […]

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The role of service industries

By |2025-02-12T09:45:06+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Banks provide essential services.

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: The role of service industries

  • A service industry is an industry which provides back-up to other sectors of the economy such as primary and secondary industries as well as to the people or labour force for them to function well.
  • They are […]
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