Paper 2 Q3 - Changing Rural Environments

Question 1

What is the second stage of Development of a Suburbanised Village?

Answer 1

Ribbon Development

Question 2

What is the third stage of the Development of a Suburbanised Village?

Answer 2

Modern Housing Estates

Question 3

What is Infilling?

Answer 3

Where people build their own houses in the gaps of other buildings

Question 4

What is Ribbon Development?

Answer 4

Where houses are built on the edges of roads

Question 5

Describe Modern Housing Estates

Answer 5

Where housing estates are built in the remaining gaps of a town

Question 6

What were the two case studies for ‘Sustainable Living’?

Answer 6

Bedzed, South London and Kuritiba, Brazil

Question 7

What is Commercial Farming?

Answer 7

Making a profit by selling the crops

Question 8

What is Subsistence Farming?

Answer 8

Making produce, not for money, but for yourself

Question 9

Space wise, Intensive Farming is…

Answer 9

an enclosed space

Question 10

Space wise, Extensive Farming is…

Answer 10

a wider space, e.g a field

Question 11

What’s the other name for Livestock Farming?

Answer 11

Pastoral

Question 12

What is Arable Farming?

Answer 12

The production of crops ONLY

Question 13

What is Mixed Farming?

Answer 13

Farming animals and growing crops

Question 14

What’s the name of the money you put into a business?

Answer 14

Capital Investment

Question 15

What was the case study for Intensive Commercial Farming?

Answer 15

East Anglia

Question 16

What is an Agribusiness?

Answer 16

The running, of a farm, like a business

Question 17

What are the chemicals used to stimulate/protect crops?

Answer 17

Pesticides, Fertilisers and Herbicides

Question 18

What is Organic Farming?

Answer 18

Farming with NO chemicals

Question 19

What is Crop Rotation?

Answer 19

Where farmers change the use of the field regularly

Question 20

How does Crop Rotation help?

Answer 20

It maintains soil fertility

Question 21

What is a Cash Crop?

Answer 21

A crop which is grown for export purposes ONLY

Question 22

Give one example of a Cash Crop

Answer 22

Cocoa beans

Question 23

How many flowers are grown per year in the Great Rift Valley?

Answer 23

350,000,000

Question 24

Where is the Great Rift Valley?

Answer 24

Kenya

Question 25

In Kenya, what do they use 50% less of?

Answer 25

Pesticides

Question 26

What technique is it where the farmers move their home every 5 years or so?

Answer 26

Shifting Cultivation (Slash and Burn)

Question 27

What is Desertification?

Answer 27

Where the land turns into a desert

Question 28

What is Appropriate Technology?

Answer 28

Technology which is affordable, suitable for those who use it and easy to fix

Question 29

What is a pull factor?

Answer 29

A good thing which attracts people to migrate

Question 30

What is a push factor?

Answer 30

A bad thing which encourages people to migrate

Question 31

What is the first stage of the Development of a Suburbanised Village?

Answer 31

Infilling