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Q5 Deduce from a 2022 world electricity generation chart how far output came from renewable sources.
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Scarcity & resources comes up in 17 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 41 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on International A Level Unit 1.
Tariffs run from 1 to 4 marks. The commonest instructions are Identify (MCQ) (7), Explain (7), Define (3). Specification points covered: 1.3.1.1, 1.3.1.3.
Q5 Deduce from a 2022 world electricity generation chart how far output came from renewable sources.
Q1 Identify which kind of good can be obtained without giving anything up (economic / free / public / capital).
Q12(a) Define capital goods, as the term appears in the extract on Indian rice subsidies.
Q5 Deduce from a table of Denmark's 2010 and 2021 electricity sources how its renewable share changed.
Q5 Deduce from a pie chart of Brazil's 2021 electricity sources whether generation relies mainly on renewable resources.
Q2 Four countries' solar and coal electricity generation shifted between 2019 and 2020, as tabulated; which claim about renewable and non-renewable resources follows?
Q8 Lake Chad lost 90% of its area over 1960-2017; explain how a free good differs from an economic good.
Q12(b) Using Figure 2, explain how renewable resources differ from non-renewable ones.
Q8 Explain how capital goods differ from consumer goods, using China, where investment slipped 47% to 43% of GDP as consumption edged up, 2018–2019.
Q8 Using the table of US sales movements across April and May 2020, explain how capital goods differ from consumer goods.
Q8 With reference to a table of changes in electricity generation by resource (coal, natural gas, hydro, wind, solar), explain the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources.
Q12(a) Give the meaning of a renewable resource, as the phrase is used in Extract B.
Q5 Portugal's electricity generation in 2016 is set out; decide what the data imply about renewable and non-renewable shares.
Q1 Choose the statement that correctly characterises economics as a discipline (social versus physical science; how wants and resources rank; use of controlled experiments).
Q12(a) State what 'free good' means as it appears in Extract A.
Q8 With reference to a chart of Canada's 2015 electricity generation by resource, explain the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources.
Q9 Bolivia's Lake Poopo lost 98% of its water by 2017, ending quinoa irrigation; decide whether it is now an economic good rather than a free good.
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