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What does HDI stand for?

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Human Development Index

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What does GNI stand for?

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Gross National Income

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What does GDP stand for?

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Gross Domestic Product

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What does infant mortality mean?

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How many infants die before the age of 1 (per 1000)

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What does HIC stand for?

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High Income Country

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What does LIC stand for?

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Low Income Country

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What does NEE stand for?

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Newly Emerging Economy

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What does infrastructure mean?

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Facilities & Services

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What does sanitation mean?

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The cleanliness of an area

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What does migration mean?

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Moving from one place to another

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What does urbanisation mean?

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The growth of towns & cities

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What does rural mean?

A

Countrysides

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What does urban mean?

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Towns & cities

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What does densely populated mean?

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A high population in an area

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What does sparsely populated mean?

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A low population in an area

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What is a megacity?

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A city with 10 million or more people living there

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What does demographic mean?

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Population

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What is a DTM (Demographic Transition Model)

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A graph to show how birth & death rate have influenced the total population

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What does deprivation mean?

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To deny someone access to something

20
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What are the four layers of the Earth?

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Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core

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What are the four plate boundaries?

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Collision, Destructive, Conservative, Constructive

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What is a tectonic plate?

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Pieces of the Earth’s crust, that slowly move during a long period of time

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What is a climate?

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The pattern of weather over 30 years

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What is weather?

A

The daily conditions of the atmosphere

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