Component 2 - Assessment Prep

Question 1

Define Population Density

Answer 1

The amount of people per km²

Question 2

What is a conurbation?

Answer 2

Continuous built-up area

Question 3

Describe the age-structure of the Uk’s urban core

Answer 3

Youthful and Single

Question 4

What term means ‘areas of countryside, away fron the urban core’?

Answer 4

Rural Periphery

Question 5

What is north-south divide?

Answer 5

The difference between the richest and poorest regions of the UK

Question 6

List 2 reasons why the UKs population has grown rapidly in recent years

Answer 6

• Natural Increase

- Imigration

Question 7

Why did Uk immigration rise rapidly in 2004?

Answer 7

EU expansion law passed

Question 8

Which region in the UK attracts the greatest number of retirement migrants?

Answer 8

South-West

Question 9

Name a region in the UK that experienced almost no population growth between 1981-2011

Answer 9

Wales + North-East

Question 10

Why has the population not increased in some areas?

Answer 10

NE = Deindustrialisation
Wales = Rural area

Question 11

London is located on which river?

Answer 11

The river Thames

Question 12

Name one of London’s CBDs and describe one characteristic

Answer 12

• West End

- High rise buildings

Question 13

Define Deprivation

Answer 13

To have little or no resources

Question 14

List 2 causes of industrial decline in London’s inner city

Answer 14

Decentralisation, Suburbanisation, Depopulation, Deindustrialisation

Question 15

List one cause of re-urbanistation

Answer 15

Gentrification

Question 16

Define regeneration

Answer 16

Long term upgrading of existing places for urban, rural, industrial and commercial areas.

Question 17

Describe the location of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Answer 17

North of London, in Newham

Question 18

State one environmental impact of the olympic games

Answer 18

Lots of green spaces were created

Question 19

Name an accessible rural area in London’s rural-urban fringe

Answer 19

Terling

Question 20

How many people commute into London daily from accessible rural areas?

Answer 20

650,000