The UK's Evolving Landscape - Definitions Flashcards

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Population density

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Number of people living in an area measured in per km2

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Conurbation

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High population densities over 600 people per km

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Urban

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Areas which have high population densities e.g. London and Manchester

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Rural

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Areas which are less densely populated

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Rural periphery

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Means the rural area outside the main town or city

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Migration

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Process of people moving from 1 place to another

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Push factors

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Reasons why people want to leave their area

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Pull factors

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Reasons why people want to move to an area

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Population structure

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Refers to the distribution, age and gender of the population

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Brain drain

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Source country lose skilled workers leading to a shirking economy

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Primary sector

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Dealing with raw material, natural resources from the ground e.g. farming

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Secondary sector

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Factories manufacturing raw material into product

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Tertiary sector

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Services e.g. teachers, doctors

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Quaternary sector

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Jobs that are research based and technological

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Deindustrialisation

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Decline of a country’s traditional manufacturing industry due to running out of raw material

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Globalisation

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Process in which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of trade and cultural exchange

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FDI

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Foreign direct investment - when a country invests money into another country by placing its business there e.g. McDonald’s in the UK

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TNCs

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Transational coroporations - are companies who trade in more than one country/ companies that operate across more than one country

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Free trade

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The free flow of goods and services without tariffs (taxes)

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Global shift

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Describes the movement of manufactouring

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Enterprise zones

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sites with reduced profit taxes, superfast broadband - most are jus toutside urban areas because land is cheaper and is still well connected

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EU Grants

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Funds to help the poorest regions of the EU with GDP below 75% of the EU average.