The cards Question What is quality of life? Tap to flip Answer A measure of the social and economic well-being of individuals or a community. Question What is the built environment? Tap to flip Answer The parts of the places where we live that have been built by people, rather than existing in nature. Question What is life satisfaction? Tap to flip Answer A subjective measure of happiness used to compare countries. Question In geography, what is development? Tap to flip Answer The progress of a country in terms of wealth, use of technology and human welfare. Question Give one thing the definition of development has broadened to include over time. Tap to flip Answer Any one of: human welfare, social justice or environmental justice. Question Why can a single image not show how quality of life differs in a distant country? Tap to flip Answer It shows only one place or group and cannot show every aspect of life; lived experience within a country is diverse. Question What does gross national income (GNI) measure? Tap to flip Answer The goods and services produced by a country, including income earned abroad. Question How is GNI per head worked out? Tap to flip Answer GNI divided by the country's total population. Question What is life expectancy? Tap to flip Answer The average number of years an individual can expect to live, measured at birth. Question Which three kinds of data are used to calculate the Human Development Index (HDI)? Tap to flip Answer Education, life expectancy and income. Question Between which two values does the Human Development Index range? Tap to flip Answer Between 0 and 1. Question Does a high GNI mean everyone in that country is well off? Tap to flip Answer No. A country's income is not shared equally, so GNI per head should be used alongside other measures. Question What is demography? Tap to flip Answer The study of population: its size, composition and change over time. Question How is birth rate measured? Tap to flip Answer The number of births for every 1,000 people in a population per year. Question What is a population pyramid? Tap to flip Answer An age-sex graph used to show the structure of a population. Question What does the demographic transition model show? Tap to flip Answer How birth rate, death rate and total population may change over time (a theoretical model). Question Which calculation helps show the economic impact of a population structure? Tap to flip Answer The dependency ratio. Question In LICs and NEEs, is it the number or the proportion of people aged 65+ that is small? Tap to flip Answer The proportion. Some have large populations, so millions of people there reach 65 and over. Question What is topography? Tap to flip Answer The shape and height of the land. Question What does landlocked mean? Tap to flip Answer Surrounded by the land of other countries, with no coast. Question What is colonialism? Tap to flip Answer The occupation, management and control of one country by another, often exploiting its people and resources. Question What is neo-colonialism? Tap to flip Answer The indirect control of one country by another through economic power or cultural influence. Question Is the physical environment the key cause of global inequality? Tap to flip Answer No. It is one cause, but human factors past and present are as influential on trade and development. Question Besides lack of income, give one thing poverty includes. Tap to flip Answer For example: hunger and malnutrition, or limited access to education and other basic services. Question What is an economic migrant? Tap to flip Answer A person who moves to another country with better working or living conditions. Question What is a refugee? Tap to flip Answer A person forced to flee their home and seek safety in another country. Question What are remittances? Tap to flip Answer Payments sent home by migrants to their family or community. Question Does only the country of origin benefit from international migration? Tap to flip Answer No. Destination countries also gain a wide range of social and economic benefits from immigration. Question Who proposed modernisation theory? Tap to flip Answer Rostow. Question How many stages of economic development does Rostow's modernisation theory describe? Tap to flip Answer Five. Question According to Rostow, what causes countries to develop? Tap to flip Answer The introduction of manufacturing. Question Who proposed dependency theory? Tap to flip Answer Frank. Question In dependency theory, who exploits whom? Tap to flip Answer The core (developed countries) exploits the periphery. Question Over the past decades, has the share of the world's population in extreme poverty risen or fallen? Tap to flip Answer It has fallen dramatically. Question What is a transnational corporation (TNC)? Tap to flip Answer A firm that owns or controls productive operations in more than one country. Question How is an intergovernmental organisation (IGO) set up? Tap to flip Answer By a treaty or agreement between countries pursuing a common goal, e.g. the World Bank. Question What is globalisation? Tap to flip Answer The increased interconnectedness of the world, economically, politically and culturally. Question Give one drawback of foreign direct investment by TNCs. Tap to flip Answer Profits leak, or jobs may be short-term. Question What risk comes with IGO loans for large infrastructure projects? Tap to flip Answer Debt problems. Question Was the 'global shift' of manufacturing a one-off movement of jobs? Tap to flip Answer No. TNCs keep seeking the lowest wages, so emerging countries can lose manufacturing jobs too. Question What is a non-governmental organisation (NGO)? Tap to flip Answer An organisation working for social or political aims that is not controlled by a government, e.g. Practical Action. Question What is intermediate technology? Tap to flip Answer Technology suited to the needs, skills, knowledge and wealth of local people where they live. Question In which country did Practical Action's gravity ropeway improve life for a remote rural community? Tap to flip Answer Nepal. Question Is aid only given in emergencies? Tap to flip Answer No. It can also support a community's sustainable development, e.g. better health or education services. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Geography Unit Global inequalities Exam boards Edexcel B England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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