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Question 1

NEE

Answer 1

A country that is starting to grow its economy and get richer

Question 2

outsourcing

Answer 2

getting another company to find cheaper resources

Question 3

Positives of Tnc’s
LIC

Answer 3

-Offers people jobs who otherwise be without income
-money that people earn go toward helping the local economy, improving the area (multiplier effect)
-living standard is raised from tax and investments

Question 4

Positive of Tnc’s
HIC

Answer 4

-offers a wide range of products at low prices

Question 5

negatives of tnc
LIC

Answer 5

-work long hours with little pay, exploitation
-few environmental laws in place, causing high pollution levels and industrial accidents

Question 6

negatives of tnc
HIC

Answer 6

-move profits so they can avoid paying tax, illegal

Question 7

TNC

Answer 7

a business or company which is in two or mroe countries

Question 8

C: Why has China’s economy grew so rapidly

Answer 8

Large workforce
-people moving from rural areas to urban areas
-one child policy makes women more likely to work

Geographical location
-access to coal, oil, and natural gas
-surrounded with strong countries who they can trade with

Question 9

I: Contrast the effect of it’s economic growth on different regions (Beijing and Shenzhen)

Answer 9

Beijing
-residents suffer from shorter lifespans than the rest of China, due to high pollution levels, because of the vast economic boom

Shenzhen
-became a special economic sone, where taxes, land rents are low and work wages are very low.

Question 10

Explain the characteristics of tropical rainforest

Answer 10

climate
-hot
-high rainfall

plants
-high biodiversity

animals
-various animal species

Question 11

Explain the characteristics of a desert ecosystem

Answer 11

climate
-hot
-dry

plants
-low biodiversity

animals
-small
-nocturnal

Question 12

Explain the characteristics of tundra ecosystem

Answer 12

climate
-cold
-windy

plants
-low plants
-small and short trees in warmer areas

animals
-wolves
-reindeers

Question 13

Explain the characteristics of polar region ecosystem

Answer 13

climate
-very cold

plants
-very few plants
-mosses and lichens

animals
-polar bears
-penguins

Question 14

I: Describe buttress roots (physical feature of rainforest)

Answer 14

roots, which are strong, stabalising and wide

Question 15

How have buttress roots helped adapted plants to it’s environmet?

Answer 15

They stabalise the tree so it can grow tall enough withour falling. Trees need to grow tall so they can reach sunlight

Question 16

biome

Answer 16

a world scale ecosystem

Question 17

consumer

Answer 17

things in an ecosystem that consume others to get energy

Question 18

ecosystem

Answer 18

a community made of interacting living and non-living organisms e.g pond, wooland

Question 19

food web

Answer 19

a more complex diagram between consumes and producers in an ecosystem

Question 20

producer

Answer 20

convert sunlight into energy e.g plants

Question 21

brain drain

Answer 21

when educated people leave a region or country to move elsewhere for better economic opportunities

Question 22

Formation of coastal landscapes
cavr, arch, stack stump sequence

Answer 22

1. large crack opened by hydraulic action
2. grows into cave by hydraulic action and abrasion
3. cave enlargens
4. cave breaks through headland, forming a natural arch
5. arch erodes and collapses
6. leaving a tall rock stack
7. stack erodes forming a stump

Question 23

impacts of erosion:
people

Answer 23

flooding leads to deaths
house destruction
people left homeless

Question 24

impacts of erosion:
environment

Answer 24

2m land lost per year
groynes installed to build up beaches

Question 25

causes of erosion

Answer 25

not very resistant cliffs
mad made structures
powerful waves

Question 26

how are powerful waves a cause of erosion

Answer 26

have a long fetch means their energy will increase