2013 HKDSE Geography exam analysis Paper 1 (Compulsory part) Section A Multiple-choice questions (40 questions‚ total 22 marks) Topics HKDSE Q. no. 2012 2013 Opportunities and risks Earth’s structure and plates 6 9 Internal forces and processes Compressional‚ tensional and lateral forces Folding‚ faulting and vulcanicity Plate boundaries Constructive‚ destructive‚ conservative Plate movement and resultant landforms Along constructive plate boundaries 7‚ 8‚ 9 11‚ 12 Along
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was a victim‚ too‚ of his own ambition and enthusiasm. “He is exceptionally smart and optimistic to a fault. He drank too much digital Kool-Aid‚” says Michael Norris‚ a senior analyst at Simba Information. Many people at Barnes & Noble worried about Amazon killing the bookstore; it sometimes seemed as if Lynch wanted to do it himself. He was a Silicon Valley dreamer in charge of a bookstore chain. As he said on Bloomberg TV in late 2012‚ “I don’t really read physical books that much anymore.” Barnes
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expedition-style voyages mainly to Polar Regions. EAI also offered voyages between season to the islands of the South Pacific and the Atlantic also covering the Amazon River. The company decided to offer these additional excursions to assist in defraying fixed business cost (Shaw & Hulland‚ 1999). EAI first began excursions through the Amazon River Basin during the high water season of March 1997. There were two options; option one was the upriver voyage from Belem‚ Brazil to the town of Iquitos‚ option
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Rainforests A rainforest (or rain forest) is a tropical forest that gets a lot of rain. It usually has a lot of plants and animals. A very well known rainforest is the Amazon Rainforest. Most of it is in Brazil‚ though Ecuador‚ Colombia‚ Chile and other countries have parts of it.Scientists say over half of all plant and animal species live in the rainforest. Also more than 1/4 of all medicines come from here. Covering only 2% of the Earth’s land area they still provide 40% of the oxygen.. It
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The first is Amazon with the Kindle. The second is Barnes and Noble with the Nook. Deciding between a Kindle and a Nook can be difficult‚ but factors like price‚ features‚ and specifications can help a person pick which would be best for them. One determining factor when deciding what to buy will almost always be price. Both the Kindle and Nook have various price points. On the low end‚ the Kindle offers a basic model for $79 (Amazon‚ n.d.) A unique thing about the Kindle is that Amazon offers a lower
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The UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 defined biodiversity as being the variability between all living organisms‚ terrestrial‚ marine and aquatic. This includes the diversity within species‚ between species and of ecosystems. A reasonable standard of living does not mean that a person should live at a luxury level‚ but neither does it mean that a person should only live at a subsistence level. It should be somewhere in between where the person can afford to eat nutritious food‚ buy clothes
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technology as well as sales. I will focus on the most popular tablets that could not find an industry in the early 1990’s‚ and I will focus on analyzing Apple’s most obvious competitors that have success with tablet computers‚ such as Samsung and Amazon. I will search the internet for as many sources necessary to summarize specific tablets. Presented will be failures and successes of different models and the reasons for each. Success will be evident from the sales numbers of certain tablets.
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became a resource of high demand back in Europe whose industrialists sought fortune in collecting and selling the rubber. This period of time was known as the "Rubber Boom;" similar to the gold rush in that entrepreneurs hurried to areas such as the Amazon basin and quickly gathered latex from the rubber trees to meet the abrupt demand. Providing such a useful raw material to different parts of the globe that were incapable of producing rubber was a sure way for business capitalists to make fortune
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1) Who is harmed by the Library Project? Make a list of harmed groups‚ and for each group‚ try to devise a solution that would eliminate or less the harm. Publishing companies and authors are harmed by the Library Project because of the copyright infringements and royalties. Book stores and distributors would also be harmed as their profits would spiral down. The Publishing companies and authors should be compensated in some manor for the books that Google is displaying for free. Google will
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Many different plant and animal species thrive in the rainforest environment‚ but it is the trees that define the way we see the rainforest. From the air‚ a rainforest looks like an enormous‚ green carpet. The canopy very rarely breaks‚ with no gaps between the trees. Beneath these trees‚ there are thousands of different types of plants. Living amongst the trees‚ vines‚ shrubs‚ ferns‚ and mosses are many different types of animals. These range from the smallest ant to the carnivorous (meat-eating)
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