Edexcel -A-Level Geography Study Bundle All Exams Compiled With Correct And Complete Answers Graded A 2024.

Economic Migrant - Answer A person who moves for employment opportunities or to be in a better financial situation Refugee - Answer A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster Asylum Seekers - Answer People who are seeki...

Globalisation - Answer Increasing inter-connectiveness of the world economically, culturally and politically TNC - Answer Trans-national corporation MNC - Answer Multi-national corporation FDI - Answer Foreign direct investment Economic Causes for Accelerated Globalisation (4) - ...

what are the economic measures of development? Answer - income per capita/GDP (widely used but isn't easy to measure as earnings of informal businesses need to be accounted for) - economic sector balance (estimate so isn't accurate) (cost of living varies significantly between countries but ...

Mantle - Answer A layer of rock that due to high temperatures is deformable (plastic) and flows very slowly Mantle Plumes - Answer Concentrated areas of heat convection. At plate boundaries they are sheet like, whereas at hotspots they are columns Subduction - Answer Process of one...

Nepalese Earthquake - Answer magnitude 7.8 year 2015 deaths approx 9000 cost 25% of GDP (5 billion) Rely on foreign aid 50% live in poverty 100 aftershocks Khatmandu building poor mountainous= landslides unprepared emergency services Loma Prieta Earthquake - Answer year 1989 San...

what changes has globalisation caused in the global economic system? - Answer disparities of wealth between different areas of the world - people want to better their lives and find work rise in internal and international migration modern transport networks - global labour flows changes ...

What first challenged Britains uni-polar world in the 1860s? - Answer Rapid American industrialisation giving the USA an economic power base to overtake the UK. When was the USSR federal state created? - Answer 1917 by the Russian revolution By what date had a bi-polar world formed and w...

Quality of Life Indices - Answer Education, health, sanitation and environment Reason for failing regeneration - Answer Lack of local support - political apathy Lack of funding Index of Multiple Deprivation - Answer Measures deprivation of local neighbourhoods 1 = Most deprived (Ja...

Why might the level of wealth and development affect the impacts of tectonic hazards? - Answer - High levels of wealth can lead to more investment in preparedness, e.g. Japan's aseismic building architecture - Increasing poverty often leads to more shanty towns, which don't have proper buildin...

Conservative plate boundary - Answer where two tectonic plates slide past each other convergent plate boundary - Answer plates move towards each other and collide Divergent plate boundary - Answer Plates move away from each other Alfred Wegener 1912 - Answer All continents were once joi...

Quarternary Ice Age Answer - Most recent ice age that started 2.6 million years ago with two epochs (Pleistocene and Holocene) Loch Lomond Stadial Answer - Last glacial advance in the UK 12,000-10,000 years ago in Scottish Highlands caused by Gulf Stream cut off by Lake Agassiz Little Ice ...

uk population - Answer 65 million 1960s uk population - Answer baby boom that started in the 40s continued, economy was growing continuously which encouraged family growth, immigration also added to population growth 1970s and 1980s uk population - Answer population growth slowed down...

(carbon) Flux - Answer Transfer of carbon from one 'pool' to another (carbon) store - Answer An accumulation of carbon Biosphere - Answer The regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms Photosynthesis - Answer The process by which carbon atoms i...

Contrasting Regional Trend in Land Use - Answer Growing demand for food, fuel and other resources Affects terrestrial carbon stores with wider implications for the water cycle and soil health Anthropogenic Threats - Answer Deforestation Afforestation Grassland Conversion Ocean Acidificati...

Transnational corporations - Answer Businesses who operate in multiple nations, for both selling and making products or giving their services. Remittances - Answer Money sent from migrants back to their families. Interdependency - Answer Two or more parties that are reliant on one ano...

Define Global Shift - Answer West ---> East Movement of global economic centre of gravity, mainly due to low labour costs. The economic fortunes of different world regions has changed over time. Effects of Global Shift on People in the developing world - Answer More value + higher...

What is a place? - Answer A geographical space shaped by individuals and communities over time What is regeneration? - Answer Long term upgrading of existing places or more drastic renewal schemes for urban, residential, industrial and commercial areas as well as rural areas. What is a p...

What is the hydrological cycle? - Answer Closed system driven by solar energy and gravitational potential. The 4 main erosion processes? - Answer Hydrolic action, Air trapped in rocks forces cracks open. Abrasion, rocks wearing down cliff. Attrition, rocks wearing down other rocks. Corro...

What is GDP? - Answer The sum of the market values, or prices, of all final goods and services produced in an economy during a period of time. 1st - Qatar 2nd - Luxembourg 3rd - Singapore What is HDI? - Answer Life expectancy, level of education, GNI per capita. 1st - Norway 2nd - ...

Deforestation: Amazonia - Answer - Humans disrupt the drainage basin cycle by deforestation - 20% of the forest has been destroyed - Removing sinks and stores - Less EVT - Increased soil erosion Water budgets - Answer Tropical - Medium to high precipitation - medium to high evapotran...

Human Development Index 'Social' (HDI) 3.7a -Answer It includes economic and social factors like life expectancy and years of schooling UNDP also report on other aspects Gender Inequality Index 'Social' (GII) 3.7a -Answer Examines disparity between men and omen by considering maternal ...

Globalisation and the Development Gap - Answer -Between countries: Luxembourg GDP per Capita $105,000/ year compared to $220 in South Sudan - Within countries: China's coastal cities over $10,000 per capita incomes, in the rural west they're under $2000 Measuring the Development Gap - Answe...