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Sample CRQs

Sample CRQs. 2011 - #1 Part A. Primate city: cities that are more than 2x the size of the next largest city AND exert social, political, and economic dominance

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Sample CRQs

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  1. Sample CRQs

  2. 2011 - #1Part A • Primate city: cities that are more than 2x the size of the next largest city AND exert social, political, and economic dominance • Rank-size rule: Sizes of cities are in proportion to one another. If x is the largest city, then the second largest will be ½ x and the third largest will be 1/3 x. • According to the statistics for the populations of Mexican cities, Mexico has a primate city since Mexico City is more than twice as large as the next largest city of Guadalajara. Mexico does not follow a rank-size rule in the population distribution of its cities.

  3. 2011 - #1Part B • Large market for goods and services • Can benefit from the advantages of agglomeration • Can offer high end goods and services because of larger threshold population • Creates global trade networks (primate cities can compete on global scale and attract foreign investment plus gravity model shows high degree of interaction among cities with high populations)

  4. 2011 - #1Part B • Unequal distribution of wealth and/or power • Brain drain – migration of educated people to primate city • Unequal distribution of education, entrepreneurship, opportunities • Disproportionate effect of disaster in the primate city on the entire country • Hard for people who are not in the primate city to access essential services such as hospitals.

  5. 2010 - #2Part A • Using contemporary examples, explain how each of the following has contributed to the development of national identity and the strengthening of a state. • Economic development • Relocation of a state’s capital

  6. 493 languages • 3 main languages • Hausa (15%) • Yoruba (15%) • Igbo (15%) • 55% speak one of the other 490 languages Nigeria: A Case Study for Language Conflicts

  7. 2010 - #2Part B • Using contemporary examples, explain how each of the following may detract from the development of national identity and weaken a state. • Ethnicity • Transportation/infrastructure

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