Difficult Definitions

Question 1

Ageing Population

Answer 1

A population with a high proportion of old people aged 65 or over. Population pyramid loses pyramid shape and bulges in the middle.

Question 2

Youthful Population

Answer 2

A population with a high proportion of young people aged 0-16. Wide base to due to high birth rate.

Question 3

Skills test

Answer 3

A policy that limits migration by only allowing people with needed skills into the country in order to boost the economy of the host country. Can be a points based system based on knowledge/qualifications/ability to speak language

Question 4

GDP

Answer 4

How much money a country has. An economic measurement of development

Question 5

The Development Gap

Answer 5

The difference between the richest countries in the world and the poorest countries in the world. It has widened dramatically over the past 200 years.

Question 6

Core region

Answer 6

An area at the heart of economic activity such as Maharashtra

Question 7

Periphery Region

Answer 7

An area located on the edge of the core

Question 8

Primary Industry

Answer 8

The extraction of raw materials

Question 9

Secondary Industry

Answer 9

Manufacture of goods and products

Question 10

Tertiary Industry

Answer 10

The tertiary sector provides services, skills goods and products from primary and secondary industry, such as teachers

Question 11

Quaternary

Answer 11

Science, development and research

Question 12

Green Employment

Answer 12

Jobs that attempt to improve air and water quality, recycle and reuse waste, promote conservation and improve the environment

Question 13

Deindustrialisation

Answer 13

The decline in secondary industry in a region

Question 14

Greenfield Site

Answer 14

§A site proposed for development that has never been built on before such as the Cambridge science park

Question 15

Brownfield Site

Answer 15

A site proposed for development that has previously been developed such asa Longbridge

Question 16

Digital economy

Answer 16

An economy that is based on digital technologies. Also known as the internet economy

Question 17

The internet economy is a synonym for which economy?

Answer 17

Digital economy

Question 18

Renewable Energy

Answer 18

A recourse that can be replenished within a realistic timeframe

Question 19

Foreign Direct investment

Answer 19

Investment from one country in to another, such as outsourcing

Question 20

State led investment

Answer 20

Top down investment into a country by the government, such as 3 gorges dam

Question 21

Renewable energy

Answer 21

A recourse that can be replenished with a realistic timeframe

Question 22

Top down Development

Answer 22

A large scale development usually organised by the government or large international corporations/ companies such as 3 gorges dam

Question 23

Bottom up development

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Smaller scale developments where there local people are heavily involved in decisions being made such as ASTRA

Question 24

ECO footprint

Answer 24

The impact of human activities measured on the area of land and water required to produce the goods consumed and to assimilate the wastes generated,

Question 25

Self help schemes

Answer 25

Where individuals are given materials in order to improve their own homes. Dharavi.

Question 26

TNCs Growth and Mergers

Answer 26

Where TNCs either merge with another company to form a new company or they take over from another company. Safeway and Morrison’s.

Question 27

Knowledge economy

Answer 27

An economy in which growth is dependant on the quality , quantity and accessibility of the information available, rather than the means of production.