UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS

International General Certificate of Secondary Education

General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level
*2760179610*

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 0680/04

5014/02
Alternative to Coursework May/June 2009
1 hour 30 minutes
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SP (CM/CGW) T74841/1
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Equator
Sri
Lanka

Fig. 1 map of the World

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Sri Lanka

fishing village
capital

0 100 km

Fig. 2 map of Sri Lanka

• Area: 64 700 sq km
• Population: 21 000 000
• Children per woman: 2.05
• Life expectancy at birth: 74.8 years
• Currency: Rupee (44 Rs = 1 US Dollar)
• Official languages: Sinhala, Tamil, 14 other languages
• Climate: Tropical
• Terrain: mostly plains with mountains in the south central interior
• Main exports: textiles, tea, spices, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, fish, coconut and rubber
products

Sri Lanka’s main economic activities are in food processing, telecommunication, insurance and banking.
Plantation crops used to be the major export but now only make up 15% of all exports. About 800 000
people work abroad, sending more than a billion dollars back to the Sri Lankan economy.

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1 Fishing is an important activity for people living in coastal villages. Villages often have lagoons For
near them. The lagoons are areas of brackish water separated from the sea by narrow strips Examiner’s
of sand or shingle. Brackish water is not as salty as sea water. The government has set up Use

trial fishponds to grow milkfish and shrimp in brackish water. There is a world-wide demand
for shrimp and the milkfish are for local consumption. Many villagers want to start their own
fishponds.

(a) Suggest why fish is an important part of the diet for village people.

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(b) Suggest why more fishponds would be an advantage to

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(c) Some villagers visited the trial fishponds to find out how to build their own ponds for For
growing either milkfish or shrimp. They returned with a building plan as shown in Fig. 3. Examiner’s
This needs to be altered to fit their lagoon. Use

(i) Complete the outline of the village lagoon by drawing in your building plan on Fig. 4.
[3]

3 2

4 nursery
pond

5 1 earth
wall

main canal
water inlet
100 m
1 – 5 growing ponds

Fig. 3

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sea lagoon land

key
100 m
sand and
shingle bank

Fig. 4

(ii) The building costs have been estimated at Rs 200 000. The shrimp are worth Rs 80
per kilogram.

How many kilograms of shrimp must be produced to pay back the building costs?
(Show your working).

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Before building can start, the villagers were told to check the water was not too acidic For
by measuring its pH. The milkfish and shrimp only survive and grow well with a pH of Examiner’s
between 7 and 8. The results of the tested water samples are shown in Fig. 5. Use

Site in lagoon pH
A 7.5
B 7.4
C 6.8
D 7.4
E 7.5

Fig. 5

sea lagoon land

E C

key
100 m
sand and
shingle bank

pH sample site

Fig. 6
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The villagers showed their results to some older people in the village who remembered For
that a large quantity of coconut husks had been buried in part of the lagoon. Examiner’s
Use

This is what three villagers said

‘we must go
and dig up the coconut
husks’.

‘we must
take more pH
samples’.

‘we
should not build
any fishponds’.

(iii) What would you advise the villagers to do? Explain as fully as you can.

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There are mangrove swamps near the village where small mangrove trees grow close For
together in shallow sea water. They are a good habitat for fish to spawn and grow. Some Examiner’s
villagers want to build more fishponds by clearing the mangrove swamp to make another Use

brackish lagoon. Other villagers think this will not be a sustainable development.

Arguments FOR Arguments AGAINST

• more money from exports • mangroves protect the coast
• more jobs • loss of spawning grounds
• less reliant on fishing • reduced fishing catches
• mangroves are of no value • more labour needed to maintain fishponds

(d) (i) Explain why this further development might not be sustainable.

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Milkfish breed in the sea; the fertile eggs hatch into fry. Some fishermen specialise in
catching the fry and keeping them alive in special containers. Sometimes not enough fry
can be caught to stock all the fishponds.

(ii) What research do you think should be carried out to support the continued
development of fishponds?

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2 Sri Lanka has plenty of surface rivers but few natural lakes. To help store water in the drier For
months water tanks have been built all over the island. Due to an increasing population there Examiner’s
is often a shortage of water suitable for drinking. The government is encouraging rainwater Use

harvesting as shown in Fig. 7.

Roof rain water harvesting system–very low cost model

corrugated iron sheet

roof — catchment

galvanised / PVC
guttering

down pipes
filter removable down pipes
for first flush rejection
overflow
storage tank
ladder
overflow tap
clay vessel

Fig. 7

(a) (i) This system has removable down pipes to reject the first flush of rainwater. Explain
why.

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(ii) A fine filter is used. It stops mosquitoes entering the storage tank.
Explain how this helps keep the people healthy.

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(iii) Give another reason why a fine filter is used.

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(iv) Give two reasons why the storage tank is not placed underground. For
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(b) Some students wanted to find out how much rain a roof could collect. They built four
1 m2 rain collectors as shown in Fig. 8 and placed them apart on the ground. They also
placed a rain gauge in the middle of their study area.

same corrugated sheet as house roof

wood
guttering

pot
(not to scale)

Fig. 8

(i) Why did the students use more than one rain collector?

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They collected the following data.

Rain collected (litres)

Day Site A Site B Site C Site D
Day 1 19 17 14 18
Day 2 31 29 25 30
Day 3 10 8 6 9
Average 20 18 15 19

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(ii) Plot the data on a graph. For

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(iii) Which rain collector harvested the least water?

Suggest two possible reasons for this.

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(iv) The roof area of a house is 40 m2. How much water is likely to have been collected
on day one?

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(v) Why did the students use a rain gauge as well as the rain collectors? For
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Look at the climate data in Fig. 9.

Month Temperature °C Average precipitation mm Number of wet days

January 27 173 10
February 28 66 4
March 29 48 4
April 32 58 5
May 33 69 5
June 33 28 2
July 33 51 2
August 33 107 6
September 33 107 6
October 31 221 13
November 29 358 17
December 27 368 16

Fig. 9

(vi) In which months is the harvested water most needed? Give a reason for your
answer.

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The demand for electricity in Sri Lanka is increasing. Several rivers are suitable for HEP For
(hydro-electric power) schemes. Examiner’s
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The Upper Kothmale HEP scheme will bypass 7 waterfalls before reaching the dam. It is
expected to generate 150 MW of power. At least 600 families will be forced to move.

Some scientists think this scheme will help development for many years. Other scientists
think the scheme will fail after a few years.

(c) (i) What makes some rivers suitable for HEP?

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(ii) Why are HEP schemes described as environmentally friendly by some scientists?

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(d) Some scientists predict that this scheme will hold 15% less water each year.

(i) Why can this happen?

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(ii) If the loss of water remained constant at 15% each year, for how many years would
the HEP scheme be able to generate electricity?

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(iii) The government has been given a low interest loan at 1.5% over 40 years to
complete the HEP scheme. Explain why this may reduce development after ten
years.

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(e) One of the villagers who is being forced to move said, For
Examiner’s
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houses are superb; living

in one of these houses will be a
dream come true’.

Another villager said,

‘Where
will you keep your two
cows and grow vegetables
to sell?’

The first villager said,

‘I will fit the cows into my

new home and I will find other means
of earning a living in town’.

Suggest how this new way of life might have advantages and disadvantages for the
villagers.

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Fig. 10

Coconuts are an important export crop and 90% of Sri Lanka’s production comes from small
farms about 2 hectare in size. The coconut trees are planted at 140 trees per hectare. Other
plants can be grown between the trees and livestock are tied to the trees (Fig. 10). The
annual income for one small farm is shown in Fig. 11.

Farm produce Annual income Rs

vegetables 300
coconuts 3 400
pasture plants (peas, beans, some grasses) 1 800
cattle 31 500
chickens 8 000
total 45 000

Fig. 11

(a) (i) What percentage of total annual income comes from cattle?

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(ii) The pasture plants always include leguminous species (peas, beans, some For
grasses). Explain how this increases the productivity of the farm. Examiner’s
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(iii) In 1997 the coconut mite started to infect the trees and the coconuts could not be
sold. Explain why most farmers decided to keep their trees.

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(b) A farmer divides his farm into four equal plots as shown in Fig. 12. The farmer knows the
following:

• tea bushes can be picked all year

• chickens find most of their own food
• cows can feed on pasture plants and coconut wastes
• vegetables can be grown in small plots

plot 1 plot 2

plot 4 plot 3

Fig. 12

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Describe, in detail, how the farmer could maintain income and productivity on the farm. For
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