The cards Question What is quality of life? Tap to flip Answer A measure of social and economic well-being, for individuals or the community. 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 Beyond economic progress, what has the definition of development broadened to include? Tap to flip Answer Human welfare, and social and environmental justice. Question What is gross national income (GNI)? Tap to flip Answer A measure of 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 total population. Question What is life expectancy? Tap to flip Answer The average number of years a person 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 Why should GNI per head be used alongside other measures of development? Tap to flip Answer A country's income is not shared equally by everyone who lives there, so it does not show differences in quality of life. 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 1000 people in a population per year. Question What is natural increase? Tap to flip Answer When a population grows because the birth rate is higher than the death rate. Question What is a population pyramid? Tap to flip Answer An age-sex graph that shows the structure of a population. Question What does the demographic transition model suggest? Tap to flip Answer How birth rate, death rate and total population change over time. Question What calculation helps show the economic impact of different population structures? Tap to flip Answer The dependency ratio. Question In LICs and NEEs, is it the number or the proportion of people aged 65 and over 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 In geography, what does poverty include besides lack of income? Tap to flip Answer e.g. hunger and malnutrition, and 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 members of their family or community. Question Do destination countries benefit from international migration? Tap to flip Answer Yes. They experience a wide range of social and economic benefits from immigration. Question What is the development gap? Tap to flip Answer The widening difference in standards of living and wellbeing between the world's richest and poorest countries. Question Which economic sector do manufacturing industries belong to? Tap to flip Answer The secondary sector. Question Which economic sector do service industries belong to? Tap to flip Answer The tertiary sector. Question What are microfinance loans? Tap to flip Answer Small-scale loans given to people in LICs to help them start a small business. Question What can foreign direct investment in infrastructure promote? Tap to flip Answer Economic growth. Question What is Fairtrade? Tap to flip Answer A system that makes sure producers in LICs and NEEs get a fairer price for their goods, improving their income and working conditions. Question What is debt relief? Tap to flip Answer When a bank or government tells another government that it does not have to pay back the money it owes. Question In development, what is aid? Tap to flip Answer Support (money, goods or services) given to improve the quality of life of a recipient. Question What is intermediate technology? Tap to flip Answer Technology suited to the needs, skills, knowledge and wealth of local people in their environment. Question Give one thing that hampers the flow of goods in the global trade system. Tap to flip Answer e.g. trade blocs, tariffs or quotas. Question What does debt relief enable governments in LICs to do? Tap to flip Answer Invest in public services and support the poorest. Question What is overtourism? Tap to flip Answer When too many people visit a place, so that it is spoiled and life becomes difficult for the people who live there. Question Bali is an island province of which country? Tap to flip Answer Indonesia. Question Since which decade has international tourism developed in Bali? Tap to flip Answer The 1960s. Question Give one negative impact of tourism in Bali. Tap to flip Answer e.g. eroding local culture, pollution or reduced water supplies. Question Between which two values does the Human Development Index (HDI) range? Tap to flip Answer 0 and 1. Question What are desire lines? Tap to flip Answer Lines on a map that show the simple direction of movement from one place to another. Question How do flow lines differ from desire lines? Tap to flip Answer Flow lines show the route taken between source and destination; desire lines show only a simple link between them. Question What are great circles? Tap to flip Answer Straight-line routes that appear curved because they take the curvature of Earth into account. Question In GIS, what is a filter used for? Tap to flip Answer Selecting data in a layer to declutter a web map so spatial patterns show more clearly. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Geography Unit Global variations in economic development Exam boards AQA 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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