WASSCE Geography · Paper 1 style

Mining

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Obuasi in Ghana is famous for mining

Adiamonds
Bgold
Cbauxite
Dcrude oil

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Answer: B

Obuasi: gold.

Trap A Mining and resources location errors: Nigeria: crude oil (Niger Delta), tin (Jos Plateau), coal (Enugu), limestone (Ewekoro, Nkalagu). Ghana: gold (Obuasi, Tarkwa), bauxite (Awaso), manganese (Nsuta), diamonds (Akwatia). Sierra Leone: diamonds (Kono), iron ore (Marampa).

Trap C Picks the wrong place or location: Learn each resource or feature with its location on a map, and the reason it occurs there.

Trap D Picks a closely related feature or term: Learn related features as contrasting pairs: how each forms and what it looks like.

Traps in Mining

Mining and resources location errors
Nigeria: crude oil (Niger Delta), tin (Jos Plateau), coal (Enugu), limestone (Ewekoro, Nkalagu). Ghana: gold (Obuasi, Tarkwa), bauxite (Awaso), manganese (Nsuta), diamonds (Akwatia). Sierra Leone: diamonds (Kono), iron ore (Marampa).
Picks the wrong place or location
Learn each resource or feature with its location on a map, and the reason it occurs there.
Picks a closely related feature or term
Learn related features as contrasting pairs: how each forms and what it looks like.

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