Unit 2 Full Set of Keywords (Geography GCSE)

Containing keywords from the following chapters:

  • Population Dynamics
  • Consuming Resources
  • Making A Living
  • Changing Cities
  • Development Dilemmas
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Birth Rate
The number of babies born alive for every 1,000 people in one year
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Death Rate
The number of people who die for every 1,000 people in one year
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Natural Increase
The number of people added to or lost from the population for every 1,000 people in one year
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Fertility Rate
The average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime
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Replacement Level
The average number of children require to be born to a woman to ensure that the population remains stable
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Population Policies
Measures taken by a government to influence population size, growth, distribution, or composition
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Pro-Natalist Policies
Encourage people to have more children using incentives such as financial payments
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Anti-Natalist Policies
Policies to encourage people to have fewer children. They do this by only providing free State education for the first child in the family
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Food Security
The ability to obtain sufficient food on a day-to-day basis. Peopl are considered to be 'food secure' when they do not live in fear of hunger
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Food Insecurity
When it is difficult to obtain sufficient food. This can range from hunger through to full-scale famine
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Resource
A naturally occuring substance which can be used in its own right or be made into something else. For example: water, minerals etc.
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Black Gold
Another name for oil, because it is such a valuable commodity
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Finite Resource
A resource that is limited or restricted
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Peak Oil
The point at which oil production reaches its maximum level and then declines
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Sustainable Development
Actions which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
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Green Belt
An area of open land around a city, which has been protected from development
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Economic Stability
Allowing people to have access to a reliable income
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Social Sustainability
Allowing people to have a reasonable quality of life with oppotunites to achieve their potential
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Greenfield Sites
Areas that are currently used for agriculture of left to nature
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Primary Industry
People extract raw materials from the land or sea. For example: farming, fishing and mining
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Secondary Industry
People are involved in manufacturing where raw materials are converted into a finished product. For example: house building, car making or steel processing
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Tertiary Industries
Provide a service. For example: distributing, retailing, financial services and nursing
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Quaternary Industries
Provide information and expert help. For example: IT, biosciences, media etc.
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Deindustrialisation
The decline in manufacturing (secondary) industry and the corresponding growth in the tertiary and quaternary industries. It can also refer to the decline in the proportion of a country's wealth created by manufacturing industry
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Informal Economy
All economic activity that is neither taxed nor monitored by a governement, it is not included in the country's Gross National Product (GNP)
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Urbanisation
The increase in percentage of people living in towns or cities
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Diversify
Create more variety in jobs and industry so that people are not dependant on one activity
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Post-Production Countryside
Means how the countryside should be used as farming declines. It refers to the diversification of economic activities in rural areas
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Brownfield Site
An area of land that has been built on before and is suitable for redevelopment
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Ecotourism
A form of tourism designed to reduce the negative aspects of tourism on the environment
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
The value of all goods and services produced in one year in a country
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Irrigation
Taking water from areas that have it and giving it to those who don't
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The number of people who die for every 1,000 people in one year

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Death Rate

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The number of people added to or lost from the population for every 1,000 people in one year

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Card 4

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The average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime

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The average number of children require to be born to a woman to ensure that the population remains stable

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