These seven questions use an invented federation, so you can practise the four skills from challenges after formation. Try each one before opening the answer.
Questions
Q1. Group each problem as political, social or economic: (a) a dispute over who controls a border, (b) two communities no longer trade with each other, (c) a region has too few clinics.
Answer
(a) Political, as it concerns authority and borders. (b) Social, as it concerns relations between communities. (c) Economic, as it is about services and development. Clinics also serve society, so add a sentence noting the social link.
Q2. Problem 1(b) also hurts incomes. Where do you place it, and how do you show the second effect?
Answer
Keep it under social, where its main cause lies, and add one sentence: “This also reduced trade income for both communities.” One home plus one link.
Q3. A federation builds schools in remote villages because children cannot travel far. Write the challenge, response and reason.
Answer
Challenge: remote children could not reach school. Response: schools were built in the villages. Reason: building where children lived removed the travel barrier.
Q4. Name a piece of documented evidence you could cite for Q3, and say what it would show.
Answer
A school-building report listing the schools opened each year. It would show that the response happened and how many villages it reached.
Q5. Label as short-term or long-term: (a) wages paid to road builders, (b) steadier farm incomes years later.
Answer
(a) Short-term, as it ends with the building work. (b) Long-term, as it appears later and lasts.
Q6. A federation has these events: (a) a festival is cancelled, (b) a border dispute starts, (c) a road opens, (d) talks settle the dispute. Split them into political and other lines, in order.
Answer
Political: (b) the dispute starts, then (d) talks settle it. Social: (a) the festival is cancelled. Economic: (c) the road opens. Note any cross-link, such as tension causing the cancellation.
Q7. Write one sentence linking the political line in Q6 to the social line.
Answer
“The border dispute raised tension between communities, so a festival was cancelled, and the later talks helped restore calm.”
If you got these wrong
Q1 and Q2 belong to grouping challenges. Q3 and Q4 need explaining responses.
Q5 links to short-term and long-term effects. Q6 and Q7 use building a thematic timeline.
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