February 2025

Resource Exploitation:Mining

By |2025-02-12T09:27:35+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Open cast mining. Image credit mutapamining.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Resource Exploitation:Mining: Types of Mining

OPEN CAST AND STRIPPING (SURFACE METHODS)

  • The open cast method is used when mineral deposits occur in horizontal seams which are near the surface not more than 50 meters deep.
  • This method involves blasting which is carried […]
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Forests in Zimbabwe: Brachystegia Savanna Woodland

By |2025-02-12T09:19:45+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

A group of Musasa trees on a low hill. Image credit flickr.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Renewable Resources: Forests in Zimbabwe: Brachystegia Savanna Woodland

  • This type of woodland generally covers much of the country’s Highveld, generally lying between 900 and 1 200 metres above sea level.
  • Brachystegia is […]
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Conservation of coniferous forests

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

National Park Bashkiriya / Ural Mountains / Russia. Image credit framepool.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Conservation of coniferous forests

  • National Parks and protected forest areas have been established both in North America, Europe and the former Soviet Union (now Russia).
  • Good management approaches are employed to ensure that […]
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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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Solutions for sustaining the world’s fisheries

By |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 |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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Resource Exploitation:Mining in Zimbabwe

By |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 |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 |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 |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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