GCSE Geography Edexcel B - key case study facts for paper 1 Flashcards
Define “quality of life”
a state of wellbeing
Name 2 TNCs that operate in India.
BT + VW (Volkswagen)
Name 2 affluent (wealthy) areas in Mumbai.
Calarva/The malabar hills
What is the population density in Bangladesh?
1115 people per kilometer squared
Name Mumbai’s largest slum.
Daravi
Name 1 source of pollution to the river Ganges.
leather tanneries (chromium)
Define ‘vulnerable”
At risk of something
Describe the site of Mumbai. [3 marks]
Mumbai is located on the west coast of India [1]
It is located on a narrow peninsula [1]
it is located on low lying land [1]
State what is meant by Foreign Direct Investment.
When a TNC invest’s money and builds infastructure in another country to help it develop.
State 2 conditions needed for tropical cyclones to form.
Water temperature above 26.5 degrees C
Cyclones can only form between 5-70 degrees North or South of the equator
What type of land use is typically found in the CBD?
Commercial
Name stages 1 and 3 in Rostow’s model.
Traditional society [Stage 1]
Take off [Stage 3]
In what decade did the global shift take place?
1990s
State 2 pieces of evidence for natural climate change.
Ice cores
Tree rings
Historical records
Art + literature
Sate 1 difference between formal and informal employment.
Formal is taxed and regulated, informal is not.
Describe 1 characistic of informal employment.
small, cheap, only effects a small group of people
Which plate boundary involves the subduction of an oceanic plate?
Convergant destructive
What is a megacity?
A city with a population of 10 million + people
State 1 reason why birth rates fall as countries develop.
access to contraception
Name the 2 types of volcano.
shield + composite
what name is given to cities with a much larger influence than other cities?
primate city
Define meternal mortality
the number of mothers per 100,000 that die in childbirth
why is the inside of the earth hot?
radiation is emitted from the earth’s core
