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Question 1

population density is

Answer 1

the average number of people in an area

Question 2

population density calculation

Answer 2

population
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area

Question 3

economic activity of birmingham

Answer 3

mining, metal, engineering

Question 4

economic activity

newcastle and glasgow

Answer 4

ship building

Question 5

economic activity

manchester

Answer 5

textile centres

Question 6

manufacturing industries have..

Answer 6

gone over seas

Question 7

manufacturing industries have been replaced with

Answer 7

services (finance)

Question 8

uk rural periphery

Answer 8

• low population density
• older population
• lower income
• high transport costs
• out-migration of younger people

Question 9

make rural peripheral more attractive

Answer 9

• enterprise zones
• regional development grants
• EU grants
• improve transportation

Question 10

enterprise zone

Answer 10

governments offer companies money to start up

Question 11

regional development grants

Answer 11

grants and advice to help businesses start up

Question 12

eu grants

Answer 12

help poor people of eu

Question 13

improve transportation

Answer 13

vital to rural region

Question 14

net immigration is

Answer 14

difference between emigrants and immigrants

Question 15

immigration of uk age & cause

Answer 15

age: 18-35
-eu membership
-globalisation
(knowledge economy)

Question 16

rising birth rate

Answer 16

• women in 20s have children earlier
• older women have children later for career reasons
• overseas women have higher fertility rate (religious)

Question 17

effects of ageing population:

Answer 17

• elderly needs services
• movement away from core
• movement away from peripheral areas (services in core)

Question 18

changing population within uk

Answer 18

3 million people move within uk (every year)

• affordable property
• retirement

Question 19

knowledge economy

Answer 19

quaternary sector based on specialised knowledge and skills

skilled, full time, high salaries

Question 20

new economy

Answer 20

tertiary sector, low salaries

services, unskilled, low wage

Question 21

new rural economy

Benefit

Answer 21

better health
better productivity 
save child care money 
suits disabled people 
less sickness

Question 22

new rural economy

negative

Answer 22

difficult to motivate
work never disappears
isolated from colleagues

Question 23

new rural economy

Answer 23

flexibility of work

work at home

Question 24

globalisation

Answer 24

increase connections between countries

Question 25

impacts on globalisation

Answer 25

free trade
FDI
TNCs

Question 26

free trade

Answer 26

free flow of goods and services without restrictions

Question 27

FDI

Answer 27

foreign direct investment

-money invested by other countries

Question 28

TNCs

Answer 28

operate across more than one country

Question 29

footloose industry

Answer 29

companies not tied to one specific location

Question 30

teleworking

Answer 30

working from home or anyway via laptop, email, wifi