1. How to answer General ‘Conclusions Questions’

2. Do not try it at the moment.
You might get a question like the next one.
Be calm and think.
Print it out.
Do not try it at the moment.

3. Armed Forces and Defence Spending for selected NATO countries
Study the information below, then answer the question which follows.
Armed Forces and Defence Spending
for selected NATO countries
Country
1990
2005
Armed Forces [000s]
Defence spending per person [$]
Armed Forces [000s
Greece
201
500
209
610 UK
308
770
216
530
USA
2,181
1,400
1,492
925
Turkey
769
110
816
115
Write down two conclusions about Armed Forces and Defence spending.
You should wrote one conclusion with evidence about each of the following. *
The country with the biggest change in the numbers in its armed forces.
What happens to the numbers in the armed forces as defence spending rises.
You must only use the information above.
Enquiry Skills, 4 marks

4. Armed Forces and Defence Spending for selected NATO countries
Study the information below, then answer the question which follows.
Armed Forces and Defence Spending
for selected NATO countries
Country
1990
2005
Armed Forces [000s]
Defence spending per person [$]
Armed Forces [000s
Greece
201
500
209
610 UK
308
770
216
530
USA
2,181
1,400
1,492
925
Turkey
769
110
816
115
Write down two conclusions about Armed Forces and Defence spending.
You should wrote one conclusion with evidence about each of the following. *
The country with the biggest change in the numbers in its armed forces.
What happens to the numbers in the armed forces as defence spending rises.
You must only use the information above.
Enquiry Skills, 4 marks
What do you have to do?

5. Armed Forces and Defence Spending for selected NATO countries
Study the information below, then answer the question which follows.
Armed Forces and Defence Spending
for selected NATO countries
Country
1990
2005
Armed Forces [000s]
Defence spending per person [$]
Armed Forces [000s
Greece
201
500
209
610 UK
308
770
216
530
USA
2,181
1,400
1,492
925
Turkey
769
110
816
115
Write down two conclusions about Armed Forces and Defence spending.
You should wrote one conclusion with evidence about each of the following. *
The country with the biggest change in the numbers in its armed forces.
What happens to the numbers in the armed forces as defence spending rises.
You must only use the information above.
Enquiry Skills, 4 marks
What you must do.
1] You must study the information.
2] You must write down two conclusions.
What is a conclusion?

6. What is a conclusion?
A conclusion is a decision you come to about a topic after studying information about that topic.
To make a conclusion about Mr Smith’s golf you would have to look at his handicap, scorecards and see if he has won any competitions.
Then you could decide if he was good or bad at golf and give reasons why you decided this.
This would be your conclusion.

7. Armed Forces and Defence Spending for selected NATO countries
Study the information below, then answer the question which follows.
Armed Forces and Defence Spending
for selected NATO countries
Country
1990
2005
Armed Forces [000s]
Defence spending per person [$]
Armed Forces [000s
Greece
201
500
209
610 UK
308
770
216
530
USA
2,181
1,400
1,492
925
Turkey
769
110
816
115
Write down two conclusions about Armed Forces and Defence spending.
You should wrote one conclusion with evidence about each of the following. *
The country with the biggest change in the numbers in its armed forces.
What happens to the numbers in the armed forces as defence spending rises.
You must only use the information above.
Enquiry Skills, 4 marks
What you must do.
1] You must study the information.
2] You must write down two conclusions.
3] You must give evidence to support your conclusions.
What is evidence?

8. What is evidence?
Evidence is written information or statistics from the sources that show that your conclusion about a topic is correct.
Pick the correct written information to back up your conclusion.
Do the figures in a table go up or down?
Does a graph go up or down?
You would say what is happening and give written information or figures as your evidence. or

9. Armed Forces and Defence Spending for selected NATO countries
Study the information below, then answer the question which follows.
Armed Forces and Defence Spending
for selected NATO countries
Country
1990
2005
Armed Forces [000s]
Defence spending per person [$]
Armed Forces [000s
Greece
201
500
209
610 UK
308
770
216
530
USA
2,181
1,400
1,492
925
Turkey
769
110
816
115
Write down two conclusions about Armed Forces and Defence spending.
You should wrote one conclusion with evidence about each of the following. *
The country with the biggest change in the numbers in its armed forces.
What happens to the numbers in the armed forces as defence spending rises.
You must only use the information above.
Enquiry Skills, 4 marks
What you must do.
1] You must study the information.
2] You must write down two conclusions.
3] You must give evidence to support each of you conclusions.
4] Your conclusions must be about the two topics given in the bullet points

10. Armed Forces and Defence Spending for selected NATO countries
Writing your answer
Study the information below, then answer the question which follows.
Armed Forces and Defence Spending
for selected NATO countries
Country
1990
2005
Armed Forces [000s]
Defence spending per person [$]
Armed Forces [000s
Greece
201
500
209
610 UK
308
770
216
530
USA
2,181
1,400
1,492
925
Turkey
769
110
816
115
Write down two conclusions about Armed Forces and Defence spending.
You should wrote one conclusion with evidence about each of the following. *
The country with the biggest change in the numbers in its armed forces.
What happens to the numbers in the armed forces as defence spending rises.
You must only use the information above.
Enquiry Skills, 4 marks
My first conclusion is about the country with the biggest change in the numbers in its armed forces.
The USA went from 2,181 in 1990 to 1,492 in This is a drop of 689 by far the biggest.
My conclusion is that the USA had the biggest change.
You must write down one conclusion.
You must give evidence to support each of your conclusions.

11. Armed Forces and Defence Spending for selected NATO countries
Writing your answer
Study the information below, then answer the question which follows.
Armed Forces and Defence Spending
for selected NATO countries
Country
1990
2005
Armed Forces [000s]
Defence spending per person [$]
Armed Forces [000s
Greece
201
500
209
610 UK
308
770
216
530
USA
2,181
1,400
1,492
925
Turkey
769
110
816
115
Write down two conclusions about Armed Forces and Defence spending.
You should wrote one conclusion with evidence about each of the following. *
The country with the biggest change in the numbers in its armed forces.
What happens to the numbers in the armed forces as defence spending rises.
You must only use the information above.
Enquiry Skills, 4 marks
My second conclusion is about what happens to the numbers in the armed forces as defence spending rises .
Greece’s defence spending went up from 500 to Greece’s armed forces went from 201 to 209.
My conclusion is that as defence spending rises so does the number in the armed forces.
You must write down one conclusion.
You must give evidence to support each of your conclusions.