November 2020 (v3) MS - Paper 2 CIE Geography IGCSE
November 2020 (v3) MS - Paper 2 CIE Geography IGCSE
November 2020 (v3) MS - Paper 2 CIE Geography IGCSE
Cambridge IGCSE™
GEOGRAPHY 0460/23
Paper 2 October/November 2020
MARK SCHEME
Maximum Mark: 60
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1(a)(i) motorway, 1
1(a)(ii) railway, 1
1(a)(iii) funicular, 1
1(c)(i) railway, 1
1(c)(ii) position of Gaggi shown with an arrow between 25 mm and 35 mm from the 1
left hand margin,
1(c)(iii) section completed with land rising in the east but not dropping below 200 m, 1
1(d)(ii) 221° 1
1(e) 5
Neither of
Both these
Area P Area Q these
areas
areas
flat land
plateau
1(f) high/hills/hilly/mountain, 4
valley,
V shaped,
narrow (valley),
ridge/spur,
888 m/886 m/over 800 m/900 m,
steep slopes,
tributaries/dissected,
lowest 150–200 m,
higher in N/NW/NE/lower in S,
2(a)(ii) Asia/Russia/Eurasia, 2
Eastern Europe,
in the north/north east,
2(c)(i) 44, 1
or
22 – 6 – 1, (allow 22 – (6 + 1))
15,
suspension,
mud/silt/clay/(fine) sediment,
4(a)(ii) SE/ESE, 1
4(c) conical, 3
layers,
lava and ash,
steep(er),
concave,
parasitic cones/secondary cones,
crater,
acid/intermediate/andesitic,
5(a) 4
Both Neither
Fig. 5.1 Fig. 5.2
photographs photograph
subsistence
commercial
arable
pastoral
5(c) relief, 2
soil,
land,
light/climate,
machinery/tractor/named machine,
council support,