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GEOGRAPHY A LEVEL REVISION - LVI > Space and Place > Flashcards

Space and Place Flashcards

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What is change driven by when considering place?

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  • Local, national, international processes
  • Demographic
  • Culture
  • Information
  • Capital
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2
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What causes inequality between places?

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  • Differences in areas
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3
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What type of population growth has been seen since 1500 globally?

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  • Exponential
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4
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What has contributed to increasing populations?

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  • Increasing birth rates
  • Decreasing death rates
  • Migrants
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5
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Outline the population change in the UK.

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  • Grown unevenly in last 50 years
  • Ageing population
  • London + SE rapid growth
  • NE slower growth
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What is the rural-urban continuum?

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  • Classification of countries
  • Metropolitan counties by population size
  • Nonmetropolitan counties by the degree of urbanisation and closeness to metro areas
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How do population structure and the rural-urban continuum relate to each other?

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  • Population structure and density vary with place on continuum
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What factors have contributed to the rural-urban divide?

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  • Accessibility
  • Physical geography
  • Historical development
  • Planning
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How can social factors affect population structures?

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  • Fertility rates
  • Mortality rates
  • International migration
  • Internal migration
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What can contribute to population characteristics?

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  • Gender
  • Ethnicity
  • Age
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11
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How can cultural diversity be explained?

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  • Social clustering
  • Accessibility of key cities
  • Physical geography
  • Government planning policies
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What effects can government planning policies have on cultural diversity?

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  • Can foster it

- Can suppress it

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Give an example of a highly diverse population in the UK.

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  • London

- British, Indian, African, Chinese, Caribbean

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How have colonies and the British Empire influenced culture and society in the UK today? Give two examples.

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  • International migration flows from former colonies
  • 1950s onwards UK accepted immigrants from India sub-continent/West Indies to fill industry
  • 1990s and 2000s migrants from EU inc 500,000 Poles
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How can governments encourage flows of people?

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  • Investing in integration programmes
  • Producing flyers in multiple languages
  • Facilities eg places of worship, specific foods
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16
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Why may migrants be attracted to live in villages?

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  • History of living in villages

- Employment in agriculture

17
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Give 7 examples of informal place representations.

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  • Television
  • Film
  • Music
  • Art
  • Photography
  • Literature
  • Graffiti
18
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Name two examples of television used to represent places.

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  • EastEnders, inner city London

- Emmerdale, rural north of England

19
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Name one example of film used to represent a place.

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  • Lord of the Rings, New Zealand
20
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What are formal ways of representing places?

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  • Quantities of data

- Allows places to be described numerically

21
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What is the best known type of formal representation of a place?

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  • Census
22
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What areas of the population does the modern census consider? (9)

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  • Date of birth
  • Gender
  • Educational qualifications
  • Ethnicity
  • Religion
  • Healthcare
  • Welfare
  • Housing
  • Employment
23
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What are the conventional characteristics that separate rural places from urban places?

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  • Closely knit community
  • Conservative views
  • Homogeneous ethnically
  • Less mobility
24
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Define quality of life.

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  • Extent to which social, psychological and physical needs and desires are met
25
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Define standard of living.

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  • Ability to access services and goods

- Includes food, water, clothes, housing, personal mobility

26
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What is the main political indicator of quality of life and standard of living?

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  • Opportunities to participate and influence decisions
27
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What are the five economic indicators of standard of living/quality of life?

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  • Access to leisure services
  • Access to employment
  • Income
  • Percentage of single-parent families
  • Percentage of lone pensioners
28
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What are the five physical indicators of quality of life/standard of living?

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  • Vandalism
  • Graffiti
  • Litter
  • Pollution - noise/air
  • Quality of housing
29
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What are the six social indicators of quality of life.standard of living?

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  • Crime rate
  • Fear of crime
  • Percentage on free school meals
  • Standard of health
  • Standard of education
  • Percentage on state benefits
30
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Describe the cycle of deprivation.

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  • Poverty - low wages, unemployment
  • Poor living conditions - overcrowding, run-down
  • Ill-health - stress, strain
  • Poor education, old schools, absences
  • Poor skills - poor occupational skills
31
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What is the Gini coefficient?

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  • Measures income inequality within countries
  • Ratio with values between 0 and 1.0
  • 0 is no inequality, 1.0 is max inequality
32
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What is the World Bank’s definition of absolute poverty?

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  • US$1.25/day
33
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Give one benefit and one draw-back of the informal sector?

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  • Easy access to employment

- No minimum wage - more vulnerable

34
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What is HDI?

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  • Human Development Index, scale from 0-1
35
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What is HDI based on?

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  • Income - adjusted to account for purchasing power in country
  • Life expectancy at birth
  • Literacy rate
  • Average years spent in school
36
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Outline how and why wealth affects spatial patterns of social inequality.

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  • Key to buy goods and services
  • Cost of living
  • Disposable income
  • Low income - ill-health, poor educational attainment, limited access to services
37
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Outline how and why housing affects spatial patterns of social inequality.

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  • Poor housing - ill-health
  • Demand greater than supply + resources
  • Rising costs
  • Second-home ownership raise property price in rural areas

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