Places and work

Question 1

Define ‘place’

Answer 1

A geographical space on land shaped by individuals and communities over time

Question 2

How are places shaped?

Answer 2

Internally (people, employment, services and housing)

Externally (gov. policies and globalisation)

Question 3

How can boundaries be allocated?

Answer 3

• official or administrative (voting wards)
• village boundaries
• travel or catchment areas (school)

Question 4

Why do people get attached to a place? (7)

Answer 4

• personal (family)
• physical landscape
• human landscape
• economic past
• religious past
• cuisine
• media image

Question 5

Describe the variance in rate of change

Answer 5

• isolated/ rural: change slowly because of less competition and demand to modernise
• places become less attractive over time and so require regeneration to compete for custom

Question 6

In what four ways can employment be classified?

Answer 6

• Sector
• Hours
• Type of contract
• Who you work for

Question 7

What do the factors that classify employment impact?

Answer 7

Income so the lifestyle of a person and disposable income which impacts local economy

Question 8

Give four controversial aspects of work

Answer 8

• gender gap
• zero hour contracts
• illegal work became a criminal offence in 2015 to crackdown on the black market
• temporary and seasonal work is low paid

Question 9

Define ‘location quotient’

Answer 9

A mapable ratio which helps specialisation in any data distribution being studied, a figure close to 1.00 suggests national and local patterns are similar. LQs over 1.00 show a concentration of that type of employment locally

Question 10

Define ‘gross value added’

Answer 10

Measures the contribution to the economy of each individual producer, industry or sector, used when calculating GDP

Question 11

How significant is the steel industry in the UK?

Answer 11

Nationally, the industry employs 30,000 often in areas of high unemployment, this supports many other manufacturers in a wider supply chain

Question 12

What happened in 2015 that was detrimental to the UK’s steel industry?

Answer 12

Thai owned ‘SSI’ at Redcar closed with 2000 redundancies and Indian TNC ‘TaTa Steel’ shut the Scunthorpe’s plant with 4,500 redundancies

Question 13

Why did the two steel plants shut in 2015?

Answer 13

Reduce costs, cheaper imports, high energy costs, green taxes and the strong pound (Negative multiplier effect)

Question 14

The lower relative importance of the manufacturing industry in the (1) means it has been less affected by (2) and recessions. During the economic (3) of 1997-2007, the region generated (4) of the UK’s growth (5)

Answer 14

1 - South-East 
2 - Deindustrialisation 
3 - boom 
4 - 37%
5 - output

Question 15

Since 2008, the South-East has increased to (1) whilst every other region has relatively declined other than (2) which means that (3) of the population generate (4) of the UK’s economic growth

Answer 15

1 - 48%
2 - Scotland
3 - 1/4
4 - 1/2

Question 16

What are the seven domains of deprivation? (not equally weighted)

Answer 16

Income, Employment, Barriers to housing and services, Health, Crime and Living environment