THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY

EDUCATION 2009
(Level 1)

SOCIAL STUDIES

TIME: 90 MINUTES
(Students are allowed 15 minutes additional reading time.
You can begin working during this time.)

Student’s Name______________________________

School’s Name ____________________________

School’s ID

Student’s Number
 SOCIAL STUDIES

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SECTION II
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INSTRUCTIONS

Read the following carefully:

1. This paper consists of two (2) sections.

2. In Section I there are forty (40) Multiple - Choice questions. Answer ALL
questions in Section I on the Multiple-Choice answer sheet provided.

3. Complete the following on the cover of this booklet:

- Student’s Name
- School’s Name
- School’s ID
- Student’s Number

4. Fill in the following information on the Multiple-Choice Answer sheet using a

2 HB pencil only(if it has not already been completed):
- School’s Name
- School’s ID
- Student’s Name
- Student’s Number
- Date of Birth
- Subject

5. Record your answers for Section I on the Multiple - Choice answer sheets
provided by shading the selected answer completely.

6. If you must change your answer, erase your first answer completely and then
shade your new answer.

7. Do NOT:

- Write anything on the top or sides of the Multiple – Choice answer sheets.
- Staple
- Punch holes
- Bend the corners
- Tear
- Or make stray marks on the answer sheet

8. There are five (5) questions in Section II. Answer FOUR (4) questions from
this Section in the spaces provided in this booklet.

9. If you are finished before time is called, go back and check your work.

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 SOCIAL STUDIES
SECTION I
MULTIPLE CHOICE

Answer ALL questions in this section

1. Judy spends most of her time listening to 4. A family budget refers to a

music and visiting the mall with her
friends. Judy’s behaviour is typical of A. list of the family’s wants and
needs
A. adulthood B. record of the incomes of family
B. adolescence members
C. childhood C. statement of the family’s
D. senescence monthly expenses
D. plan of how the family’s money is
to be used
2. What family structure is illustrated in the
sketch below?
5. Shaquille and his friend Ali would
like to join their school’s football club.
The BEST reason for joining the club,
is to

A. avoid doing home work

B. travel overseas regularly
C. develop their social skills
D. wear a really nice uniform

A. Extended
B. Nuclear 6. The collection of information about
C. Single Parent a country’s population, size, age and
D. Sibling gender is a
7.
A. census
3. The role of the female is no longer that of a B. poll
home maker. One problem associated with C. study
this is D. survey

A. less jobs for males

B. children do not complete their
homework
C. families spend less time together
D. females earn more income than males

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7. A small village did not receive water 9. Residents of a town are not happy
for two weeks. What should be the because a cell tower is being erected
first step that the villagers take to in their community. What is the BEST
resolve this problem? action the residents should take?

A. Block the road with garbage and
tyres
B. Call radio and television stations
C. Refuse to pay their water bill
D. Report the matter to the water
authority
A. Organise a petition against its
erection
B. Demand payment for use
C. Protest by blocking the roads
D. Ignore the problem completely

Use the grid given below to answer the 10. Which of the following push factors
following question. contribute to rural-urban migration?

A. Losses in agriculture
B. Better job opportunities in cities
C. Higher standard of education
D. More recreational activities

11. Which ONE of the following is a

function of local government?

A. Budgeting of the country’s expenses

B. Maintaining law and order
C. Collection of garbage
D. Providing social services

8. What is the grid reference for the town of

Rio? 12. Larry is a sick, unemployed single
parent of three. What is the BEST
A. 1224 way that government can assist him?
B. 1324
C. 2412 A. Give him advice
D. 2413 B. Maintain law and order
C. Make laws in parliament
D. Provide social services

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Question 13 is based on the picture The table below shows election data for the
below. districts in a small country. Use the data given
in the table to answer Question 15.

Electoral No. of No. of persons

Districts registered who voted
voters

1 3,200 3,010

2 2,500 1,500

3 5,000 5,000

13. These demonstrators are exercising 4 4,000 3,930

freedom of
15. The electorate for the general election in
A. association this country is
B. the press
C. religion A. 13, 900
D. expression B. 13, 440
C. 14, 700
D. 14, 200
14. Obeying the laws of the country is the
duty of all
16. Company A is producing 500 electric fans
A. children per week. The order per week is eight
B. citizens hundred (800) fans. How could this
C. pensioners situation affect the consumer?
D. workers
A. Increased marketing
B. Lower prices of fans
C. Less demand for fans
D. Shortage of fans

17. The fastest and cheapest way to send a

letter is by

A. air-mail
B. facsimile
C. e-mail
D. telegram

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Question 18 is based on changes in 20. Thomas was injured on his job site and
transportation through the ages. wants to be compensated. Which of the
following should he visit to obtain advice?

Canoes A. His Credit Union

B. His trade Union
C. The General Hospital
D. The Finance Company
Horse & Buggy
21. Which ONE of the following is a
primary industry?
__________
A. Fishing
B. Manufacturing
C. Transport
D. Tourism
Buses

22. Some villagers throw their bottles, tyres

18. Which form of transportation correctly and cans into the river. This action can
completes the chart? result in

A. Airplane A. emission of waste gases in the

B. Boat atmosphere
C. Maxi-taxi B. flooding and damage to crops
D. Trains C. mercury poisoning in the water
D. smog which decreases visibility

19. The government of Trinidad and

Tobago can contribute to the 23. The “annexation” of Trinidad and
development of aquaculture by Tobago refers to

A. backfilling ponds A. the independence of Trinidad and

B. providing technical assistance Tobago
C. removing duty concession B. the separation of Trinidad from
on artificial fish food Tobago
D. restricting funding to the fisheries C. Trinidad and Tobago becoming a
sector unitary state
D. Trinidad being situated next to
Tobago

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Question 24 is based on the pie chart below. The table below shows the number of
cell phones and landlines bought by
customers in two years.

Year No. of Cell No. of

Tertiary Workers phones Landlines
Secondary
Workers
1999 10,500 20,000
Primary workers

2000 25,000 22,000

26. Which of the following might BEST

24. The pie chart shows the various types of
workers in a country. From the pie chart
we can say that
A. there are more primary workers than
secondary workers
B. primary and secondary workers
together outnumber tertiary workers
C. tertiary workers make up the
largest group of workers
D. primary workers outnumber tertiary
workers
account for the change in the use of
cell phones?
A. Cell phones were cheaper than land line
phones.
B. Cell phones were less fashionable.
C. Cell phones were convenient.
D. Land lines were outdated.
27. Which of the following persons fought for the
rights of workers?

A. Dr. Eric Williams

25. Matthew, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago B. Mr. George Chambers
is moving to Barbados to work as a C. Dr. Rudranath Capildeo
journalist. He can work in Barbados D. Mr. Tubal Uriah Butler
because

A. his father was born in Tobago

B. lots of tourists visit the island
C. Trinidad and Tobago is a member of
the CSME
D. Trinidad and Tobago has too many
journalists

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28. Mr. Roberts has recently been elected Question 32 is based on the slogan below.
as the representative for his constituency.
The BEST way he can provide service to Down with the Union Jack
his constituents is by Up with the Red, White and Black!

A. forming a party group

B. having monthly meetings with his 32. These sentiments were MOST LIKELY
constituents expressed during the years
C. organizing a clean-up campaign
D. providing hampers to constituents A. 1934 -1937
B. 1958 -1962
C. 1963 -1990
29. “May I see your driver’s licence D. 1976 - 2009
and insurance please?” When a policeman
makes this statement he is displaying
33. Students were loitering on the corridor
A. authority during class time. The senior prefect asked
B. care them to go to their classes. What would be
C. leadership the correct thing for these students to do?
D. discretion
A. Follow the prefect’s instructions.
B. Go to the closest empty classroom.
30. The President of the Republic of C. Remain on the corridor quietly.
Trinidad and Tobago is responsible D. Wait to be instructed by the Dean.
for the appointment of the

A. Commissioner of Police
B. Commissioner of Prisons
C. Prime Minister
D. City Mayors

31. Susan belongs to the Rotary Club in her

area. Formal groups like the rotary club
operate through

A. written rules, sanctions, elected leaders

B. written rules , symbols, informal
leaders
C. unwritten rules, sanctions, informal
leaders
D. unwritten rules, symbols, elected
leaders

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Question 34 is based on the picture below. Question 37 is based on the given
photograph.

34. This picture shows damage done to land

and houses. What two factors could be the
cause of the damages shown?

A. Cutting down of trees and drought

B. Cutting down of trees and heavy
rainfall
C. Planting of trees and heavy rainfall 37. The boy in the photograph stands in a
D. Planting of trees and drought doorway and braces himself. To which
natural phenomenon is the boy MOST
LIKELY responding?
35. Gomez has been cultivating the same crop
on his plot of land for the past five years. A. Earthquake
He recently noticed that the yield from his B. Hurricane
crop has been decreasing. What can you C. Land slide
suggest to Mr. Gomez to address this D. Volcano
problem?

A. Clear more land to plant his crop 38. Which of the following is a natural
B. Plant his crop closer together occurrence?
C. Plough the land and replant
D. Plant a different crop A. Deforestation
B. Land slide
C. Land fill
36. Citizens can help to preserve the coral D. Oil spill
reefs in Tobago by

A. informing persons about the proper use

of the reefs
B. photographing the corals
C. paying lifeguards to patrol the beaches
D. introducing new varieties of corals to
the reef

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Question 39 is based on the given picture. 40. An area of low land which is found
between hills or mountains is known as a

A. beach
B. peninsula
C. swamp
D. valley

39. Many residents of the village shown in

the photo above are likely to be making
a living by

A. aquaculture
B. farming
C. fishing
D. lumbering

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 SECTION II

There are five (5) questions in this Section. Answer any FOUR (4) questions in the spaces
provided.

Economic Resources

1.(a) Name THREE (3) types of pollution.

(i) __________________________________________________________________________

(ii) ___________________________________________________________________________

(iii)__________________________________________________________________________

(3 marks)

(b) Select ONE (1) type of pollution named above and describe THREE (3) effects on man
and / or the environment.

Type of pollution____________________________________________________________

Effects

(i) __________________________________________________________________________

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(ii) __________________________________________________________________________

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(iii) __________________________________________________________________________

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1.(c) Suggest THREE (3) ways that the government can deal with the problem of pollution in the
country.

(i) ___________________________________________________________________________

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(ii) __________________________________________________________________________

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(iii)__________________________________________________________________________

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Economic Development

2.(a)

(i) Define the term “monoculture”.

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(2 mark)

(ii) Name the monoculture crop that was cultivated in the 18th century.

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(1 mark)

(b) Identify THREE (3) problems which can result from the practice of monoculture and briefly
explain how they arise?

(i) __________________________________________________________________________

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(ii) __________________________________________________________________________

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(iii)__________________________________________________________________________

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2.(c) Suggest THREE (3) ways that government can discourage the practice of monoculture.

(i) __________________________________________________________________________

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(ii) __________________________________________________________________________

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(iii)__________________________________________________________________________

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Evolution and Change

3.(a) Define the terms:

(i) Archaeology

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(ii) Artifact

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(iii)Technology

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(3 marks)

(b) Amerindian women led very active lives and carried out many important functions. Compare
and contrast the roles of the Amerindian women with that of women today.

(i) _________________________________________________________________________

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(ii)

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3.(b)

(iii)__________________________________________________________________________

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(6 marks)

(c) The life expectancy of people today is much longer than people who lived a century ago.
List THREE (3) advances in technology which have taken place since that time and explain
how these have contributed to an increase in life expectancy of people today.

(i)
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(ii)
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(iii)
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The Physical Environment

4.(a)
(i) Name ONE (1) natural disaster that can affect Trinidad and Tobago.
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(1 mark)
(ii) You are asked to prepare a “disaster preparedness plan” for the disaster named in (a) (i)
above. What are TWO (2) components that must be included in such a plan?

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(2 marks)

(b) Countries which depend on tourism can be negatively affected when a natural disaster occurs.
Identify THREE (3) effects of a named natural disaster and explain how they can affect the
tourist industry.

(i)
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(ii)
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(iii)

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(c) “Global warming” has resulted in changes in the weather patterns which could have negative
effects on the environment.

As president of your school’s environmental club you are preparing a speech for students
about ways to reduce global warming. What are THREE (3) recommendations you would
include in your speech and briefly explain how these would reduce global warming?

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The Social Environment

5.(a) Using Trinidad and Tobago as an example, explain the term “bi-cameral
legislature”.

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(3 marks )

(b) Describe the steps that a bill should go through before becoming a law.

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5.(c )What are THREE (3) things that your community can do to reduce the level of crime in your
area ?

(i)

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(ii)

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(iii)

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(6 marks)

STOP!

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