Part 2: The UK Economy and Society

Question 1

1. What is migration?

Answer 1

a. When people move from one place to another

Question 2

2. What is internal migration?

Answer 2

a. When people move within the UK

Question 3

3. What is international migration?

Answer 3

a. When people move from one country to another

Question 4

4. What is immigration?

Answer 4

a. When people move into the UK

Question 5

5. What is emigration?

Answer 5

a. When people move from the UK

Question 6

6. What has happened to the size of the population of the UK since 1945?

Answer 6

a. It has increased

Question 7

7. What makes a population increase?

Answer 7

a. Immigration

b. Natural increase

Question 8

8. What is natural increase

Answer 8

a. When the birth rate is higher than the death rate

Question 9

9. Do most people in the UK live in urban or rural areas?

Answer 9

a. Urban

Question 10

10. Has the number of people in urban areas decreased or increased?

Answer 10

a. Increased

Question 11

11. What percentage of people in the UK live in urban areas?

Answer 11

a. 80%

Question 12

12. Where do most people live in the UK now?

Answer 12

a. In the south east of England

Question 13

13. Why has the population of the south east of England increased?

Answer 13

a. Immigration from other parts of the UK

b. Immigration from outside the UK

Question 14

14. What has happened to birth rate in the UK?

Answer 14

a. Decreased

Question 15

15. What has happened to the proportion of older people in the UK?

Answer 15

a. Increased?

Question 16

16. What has the proportion of older people increased?

Answer 16

a. People live longer

b. Less babies are being born

Question 17

17. Why has internal migration to the south east of England increased

Answer 17

a. Jobs in the south east especially London

Question 18

18. Why has immigration to the UK from other countries increased?

Answer 18

a. People coming for work

b. Refugees

Question 19

19. How does the European Union affect immigration?

Answer 19

a. People in European Union countries are allowed to live in any country in the European Union

Question 20

20. What is ethnic and cultural diversity?

Answer 20

a. The number of different nationalities and cultures people come from

Question 21

21. What has happened to ethnic and cultural diversity in the UK?

Answer 21

a. It has increased

Question 22

22. Which countries outside the EU have people come from the to the UK?

Answer 22

a. India
b. Pakistan
c. Nigeria

Question 23

23. From which European Union countries have the greatest number of people come from to the UK?

Answer 23

a. Poland

b. Lithuania

Question 24

24. What has happened to the number of primary jobs in the UK?

Answer 24

a. Decreased

Question 25

25. Why have primary jobs decreased?

Answer 25

a. More machines used in farming

Question 26

26. What has happened to the number of secondary jobs in the UK?

Answer 26

a. Decreased

Question 27

27. Why have secondary jobs decreased?

Answer 27

a. Factories have closed | b. Jobs have moved to other countries

Question 28

28. What has happened to the number of tertiary jobs in the UK?

Answer 28

a. Increased

Question 29

29. What has happened to the number of quaternary jobs in the UK?

Answer 29

a. Increased

Question 30

30. Which parts of the UK have lost a lot of secondary jobs?

Answer 30

a. The north of England e.g. Sheffield

Question 31

31. Which parts of the UK have increased the number of tertiary jobs?

Answer 31

a. The south east especially London

Question 32

32. What sort of jobs do most people do in the north of England

Answer 32

a. Tertiary

Question 33

33. Where are most quaternary jobs?

Answer 33

a. In the south east e.g. London, Oxford, Cambridge

Question 34

34. Where is unemployment highest?

Answer 34

a. The north of England

Question 35

35. What is globalisation?

Answer 35

a. When countries trade with each other all over the world

Question 36

36. What is free trade?

Answer 36

a. When companies do not need to pay tax to sell things in other countries

Question 37

37. What is privatisation?

Answer 37

a. Companies do things instead of governments

Question 38

38. What is foreign direct investment?

Answer 38

a. When a company opens an office or factory in another country

Question 39

39. What is a transnational company (TNC)?

Answer 39

a. A company which makes or sells things in more than one country

Question 40

40. Why have globalisation and free trade increased foreign direct investment and the number of TNCs in the UK?

Answer 40

a. Because it is easier for foreign companies to open in the UK

Question 41

41. Give an example of a TNC in the UK

Answer 41

a. Virgin

Question 42

42. What do Virgin do?

Answer 42

a. Airlines b. Trains c. Gyms