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Free CIE IGCSE Environmental Management
Practice Paper

8 mixed-difficulty practice questions in the style of real CIE IGCSE papers — answers, mark-scheme-style explanations, and the official exam structure all on one page.

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What the real CIE IGCSE Environmental Management paper looks like

Paper 1 (Multiple Choice)
40 multiple-choice questions, 1 mark each. 45 minutes. Tests breadth of knowledge.
Paper 2 (Core) / Paper 4 (Extended)
Structured written paper. 1 hour 30 minutes (Core) or 1 hour 45 minutes (Extended). Tests depth of understanding and application.
Paper 6 (Alternative to Practical)
Written paper assessing practical skills for candidates without lab access. 1 hour. Worth ~20% of the total.
Total exam time: ~3 hours, depending on tier (Core vs Extended).
Grading: Grades: A* (highest) to G (lowest), with U (ungraded). Most universities require C or above.

Mini practice paper: 8 questions

Mixed-difficulty questions from across the Environmental Management syllabus. Tap "Show answer" after each to check yourself.

Q1 · Difficulty 1/3

What is a high-yielding variety of a crop?

  1. A crop that can be grown without any water
  2. A wild relative of a cultivated crop
  3. A crop grown without fertiliser
  4. A variety bred to produce more grain per plant, often with a shorter stem and faster ripening
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✓ Answer: D — A variety bred to produce more grain per plant, often with a shorter stem and faster ripening
Award 1 mark. Such varieties usually deliver their higher yield only when well supplied with fertiliser and water.
Q2 · Difficulty 1/3

Which rock is quarried in enormous quantities as the raw material for cement?

  1. Granite
  2. Slate
  3. Sandstone
  4. Limestone
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✓ Answer: D — Limestone
Award 1 mark. It is heated with clay to make cement, and is also used as aggregate and in steelmaking.
Q3 · Difficulty 1/3

Which soil drains most freely but is least able to retain water and nutrients?

  1. Clay soil
  2. Peat soil
  3. Sandy soil
  4. Loam soil
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✓ Answer: C — Sandy soil
Award 1 mark. Its large particles leave wide pore spaces, so water passes through quickly and carries dissolved nutrients with it.
Q4 · Difficulty 1/3

Water pollution is the addition of harmful substances to:

  1. soil only
  2. rocks
  3. water bodies
  4. the air only
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✓ Answer: C — water bodies
Water pollution contaminates water bodies.
Q5 · Difficulty 1/3

What is gully erosion?

  1. The gradual loss of a uniform layer of soil across a field
  2. The cutting of deep, steep-sided channels where runoff becomes concentrated into fast-flowing streams
  3. The blowing away of loose surface material in a drought
  4. The washing of nutrients down through the soil profile
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✓ Answer: B — The cutting of deep, steep-sided channels where runoff becomes concentrated into fast-flowing streams
Award 1 mark. Once gullies form they are difficult and expensive to repair and they make land unusable for machinery.
Q6 · Difficulty 1/3

The total number of people living in an area is the:

  1. population
  2. climate
  3. economy
  4. census only
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✓ Answer: A — population
Population is the number of people.
Q7 · Difficulty 1/3

What is land restoration after mining?

  1. Selling the exhausted site for building development
  2. Fencing the site off permanently for safety
  3. Returning the site to a usable condition by reshaping the ground, replacing stored topsoil and re-establishing vegetation or water bodies
  4. Leaving the site to recover naturally over several centuries
Show answer & explanation
✓ Answer: C — Returning the site to a usable condition by reshaping the ground, replacing stored topsoil and re-establishing vegetation or water bodies
Award 1 mark. Companies are increasingly required to fund this as a condition of the mining permit.
Q8 · Difficulty 1/3

What is aquaculture?

  1. The farming of fish, shellfish or aquatic plants in controlled conditions
  2. The catching of wild fish from the open sea
  3. The study of freshwater ecosystems
  4. The irrigation of crops using river water
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✓ Answer: A — The farming of fish, shellfish or aquatic plants in controlled conditions
Award 1 mark. It now supplies a large share of the fish people eat and takes some pressure off wild stocks.
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CIE IGCSE Environmental Management FAQ

What does the CIE IGCSE Environmental Management exam look like?
The CIE IGCSE Environmental Management exam is structured across 3 components. Paper 1 (Multiple Choice): 40 multiple-choice questions, 1 mark each. 45 minutes. Tests breadth of knowledge. Paper 2 (Core) / Paper 4 (Extended): Structured written paper. 1 hour 30 minutes (Core) or 1 hour 45 minutes (Extended). Tests depth of understanding and application. Paper 6 (Alternative to Practical): Written paper assessing practical skills for candidates without lab access. 1 hour. Worth ~20% of the total. Total exam time: ~3 hours, depending on tier (Core vs Extended).
Can I download a free CIE IGCSE Environmental Management past paper?
Real CIE past papers are published directly by CIE on their official website. Kramizo doesn't redistribute copyrighted past papers, but we do generate free AI-written practice papers in the exact same style — same command words, same difficulty tier, same mark conventions. Use this practice paper as warm-up, then time yourself on official past papers before exam day.
How is CIE IGCSE Environmental Management graded?
Grades: A* (highest) to G (lowest), with U (ungraded). Most universities require C or above. Kramizo's practice questions are tagged with difficulty 1-3 mapping roughly to the lower, middle, and top grade boundaries you'll encounter in the real exam.