February 2025

Trains and rail transport

By |2025-02-12T09:31:28+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

An NRZ train. Image credit sa-transport.co.za An NRZ train. Image credit sa-transport.co.za ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport: Trains and rail transport

Advantages

  • Is relatively cheap
  • Caries bulk goods such as coal and unprocessed ores
  • Carries large amounts of goods and
  • Carries large amounts of passengers
  • They are comfortable
  • Can be very fast
  • They are less prone to […]
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Effects of urbanization

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

Illegal houses being demolished in Epworth, Harare. Image credit voicesofafrica.co.za Illegal houses being demolished in Epworth, Harare. Image credit voicesofafrica.co.za ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Settlements:The benefits and problems of urbanisation

  • Urbanisation brings about certain effects
  • There negative and positive effects
  • These effects affect both the source (rural areas) and receiving areas (the […]
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Population growth

By |2025-02-12T09:04:16+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Population: Population growth

  • is an increase in the number of people that reside in a country, state, county, or city
  • There are several factors which affect the growth of a population
  • A country’s population grows as a result of natural births taking place within the community/country/region
  • Births increase the population
  • It can also grow […]
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Factors influencing farming: Economic factors

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

Farming requires transport to move the produce to the market. Image credit farmradio.fm

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Factors influencing farming: Economic factors

Transport

  • Types of transport available, time taken, and the cost of moving raw materials is one of the economic factors.
  • For perishable commodities for example milk, an efficient transport network is […]
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Small Scale Mixed farming

By |2025-02-12T09:31:08+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Small scale mixed farming in rural Zimbabwe. Image credit MediaWiki

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa: Mixed Farming

  • This type of farming is undertaken on a small piece of land with the aim of producing crops both for home consumption and sale.
  • It is an intensive type of farming.
  • It […]
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Industrial Studies: Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:03:42+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Zimplats Plant. Image credit mg.co.za

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Industrial Studies: Introduction

  • The word industry refers to the capacity or ability to do work where some form of energy has to be used in the process.
  • Industry is also defined as economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods […]
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Roads in Zimbabwe

By |2025-02-12T09:11:20+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Wide tarred road with a cycle track.

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport: Road transport network in Zimbabwe

  • Roads in Zimbabwe have been divided into groups, namely:<
    1. Wide-tarred roads which are two-way highways with a minimum width of 6 metres, and
    2. Other roads include here are narrow-tarred roads, strip roads and […]
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Exploitation of natural resources

By |2025-02-12T09:24:48+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Exploitation of natural resources, gold panning in Mozambique.Image credit nytimes.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources:Resource Exploitation

  • The exploitation of natural resources is the use of natural resources for economic growth, sometimes with a negative implication of accompanying environmental degradation.
  • It started to emerge on an industrial scale in the […]
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Forestry: Deforestation

By |2025-02-12T09:18:33+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Deforestation in the Amazon rain forest. credit blog.conservation.org

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources:World Deforestation

  • Deforestation is the cutting down of trees without replacing them.
  • The most important role forests play in sustaining people’s lives is being threatened by the rapid disappearance of the world’s forests.
  • In 2009, most of the […]
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Types of Forests: Deciduous temperate forests

By |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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