Regional patterns of development India & UK, Reducing inequalities

Question 1

Why does Kerala in India have relatively low birth rates and high life expectancy compared with the rest of India?

Answer 1

The state government funds health and education.

Question 2

Why has Kashmir lower than average levels of income per capita?

Answer 2

Conflict in the region between India and Pakistan.

Question 3

Maharashtra and Gujarat are India’s main centre of…

Answer 3

Industry

Question 4

What is widespread against women and girls in India

Answer 4

Discrimination

Question 5

What does the word rural periphery mean?

Answer 5

One the edge or margins; areas which have a poor economic status and thus suffer from the associated conditions

Question 6

Give an example of an informal job that people do in India?

Answer 6

collecting and recycling rubbish

Question 7

What is the term that is used to refer to the economic and social differences between southern and northern areas of the UK?

Answer 7

North-South Divide

Question 8

Give 3 consequences of these regional differences in the UK?

Answer 8

Health conditions are poorer in the north, Life expectancy is higher in the south, House prices are higher in the south, incomes are higher in the south, Internal migration of young professionals from northern areas into the south east.

Question 9

What is deindustrialisation?

Answer 9

The decline of manufacturing (secondary) industries

Question 10

Is there more research and development spending in the north or the south of the UK?

Answer 10

South

Question 11

The south has a global centre for banking and finance?

Answer 11

True

Question 12

The major airports in the UK are located in

Answer 12

The South

Question 13

People tend to have lower earnings/salaries in

Answer 13

The North

Question 14

Name the MNC that had to lay off a significant amount of workers in Scunthorpe (NE England) and Port Talbot (South Wales).

Answer 14

Tata Steel

Question 15

Give an example of a city in the north you have studied

Answer 15

Sheffield

Question 16

Sheffield experienced economic diversification what were the 3 positives of this?

Answer 16

1) Water quality improved river re-stocked with fish
2) Air quality has improved
3) Regeneration of old steel sites - Meadowhall shopping centre

Question 17

What were the 3 negative impacts of economic diversification on this city?

Answer 17

1) Derelict land and buildings left
2) Pressure on Greenfield sites on the edge of Sheffield.
3) Increased traffic congestion and job competition

Question 18

Where is the proposed M4 relief road?

Answer 18

Newport South Wales

Question 19

Why is this (the m4 relief road) being considered to help reduce regional inequalities?

Answer 19

Reducing traffic congestion and making it easier to get into wales along the M4 this will increase trade, create jobs, multiplier effect

Question 20

Why do some people object to this relief road?

Answer 20

Very expensive, Some will say it will encourage more cars and therefore noise and air pollution, The location through a Site of Special Scientific Interest SSSI

Question 21

What are Enterprise Zones?

Answer 21

They are areas specifically designated or focused on for business and are supported by governments.

Question 22

Give a named example of an Enterprise Zone.

Answer 22

Sheffield