Edexcel Geography B paper 1 GCSE - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Cold air sinks, causing ___ pressure	High	93%
Warm air rises, causing ___ pressure	Low	93%
Clouds of ash dust from ___ block out the Sun creating a cooling effect	Volcanoes	72%
The cell closest to the equator	Hadley	66%
The cell closest to the north and south poles	Polar	59%
There are 6 circulation cells: Polar, ___ and Hadley	Ferrel	55%
_____ ice caps	melting	48%
Evidence for natural climate change: Rising ___ levels	sea	48%
Most _____ is produced by burning fossil fuels, producing greenhouse gases	Energy	38%
Physical hazard of tropical cyclones: strong ___ could cause trees to fall over or debris to go everywhere	winds	38%
The effect caused by the Earth's rotation	Coriolis	34%
They must be at least _ degrees north or south of the equator for the Coriolis effect to take effect	5	31%
Countries it borders	China	31%
More frequent and _______ weather events	extreme	31%
The natural process keeping Earth warm	greenhouse effect	31%
	Russia	31%
India has the worlds _____ largest wireless network	second	31%
______ currents: where heat moves through the Earth's mantle	convection	28%
Deaths per 1000 per year	Death rate	28%
Gross _____ product (GDP) is the total value of goods and services produced in a country in one year	domestic	28%
Political and _____ policies: open economies develop faster	economic	28%
	India	28%
A city with 10 or more million people	megacity	28%
_______ density: more ____ dense areas can suffer more damage	Population	28%
The sector of the economy involving the extraction of raw materials	primary	28%
A factor which encourages people to move into an area	Pull	28%
A factor which discourages people from moving into an area	Push	28%
The sector of the economy providing services	tertiary	28%
India is in South____	Asia	24%
Number of births per 1000 per year	birth rate	24%
BRICS countries	Brazil	24%
How prepared people are: are they educated, are ______ engineered to withstand and resist earthquake	buildings	24%
Plate boundary where plates slide past each other	conservative	24%
Salt water on land, contamination, damage to farming and tourism - effects of ___	flooding	24%
The process by which there is a widening and deepening of global connections and interdependence	globalisation	24%
Jobs not recognised by the government	Informal	24%
A method of presenting a populations age structure	population pyramid	24%
Weather that causes flooding and damage to property	Rain	24%
The sector of the economy involving manufacturing	secondary	24%
The amount of radiation the Sun gives out varies over a ___ year cycle	11	21%
Plate boundary where plates move together e.g. Philippines and Eurasian plates	convergent	21%
The term that describes how advanced a country is compared to others	development	21%
People may not be ______ as to what they should do in the event of a disaster	educated	21%
Rescuers search for trapped people, provide f___ and w_____.	food water	21%
Evidence for natural climate change:	Ice cores	21%
Number of babies that die before their first birthday per 1000	Infant mortality rate	21%
Afterwards, you must repair and rebuild ______	infrastructure	21%
___ cycles: Variations in Earth's orbit	Milankovitch	21%
The sector providing high tech services	quaternary	21%
_______ volcanoes are found on constructive plate boundaries or hotspots	shield	21%
Globalisation has led to increased investment from ___s	TNC	21%
Cars are becoming more affordable as well as flying so ___ uses more energy	Transport	21%
Water must be _____ degrees celsius	26.5	17%
___ (money sent to developing countries to help them develop)	aid	17%
Local scale projects which aim to benefit a village or small community	Bottom-up	17%
Historical: _______ or neo_______	colonialism	17%
_______ volcanoes are cone shaped and form on destructive plate boundaries	composite	17%
They all speak _____ which is useful for TNCs	English	17%
____ trade	fair	17%
Jobs where employees pay taxes	formal	17%
______'s dependency theory	Frank	17%
People have more disposable income so demand for consumer goods leads to _____ growth	industrial	17%
	Pakistan	17%
Preparation: Atmospheric ______: Areas of low ______ are likely to be a source for a storm. Buoys can be used to measure that in advance	pressure	17%
Social vulnerabilities: Areas of poverty are more vulnerable as housing is less well built so less _____ to natural disasters	resistant	17%
______ modernisation theory	Rostow	17%
Oceanic plates are _____ beneath continental plates because they are denser	subducted	17%
_____ of day: more casualties if people are inside	time	17%
Increasing global links leads to: more _____	trade	17%
	Tree rings	17%
_______ form because of underwater earthquakes	Tsunamis	17%
They also have a ____ base and _____ slopes	wide gentle	17%
	Bangladesh	14%
The decline of industrial activity in a region or in an economy	de-industrialisation	14%
Plate boundary where plates move apart e.g. Eurasian and North American plates	divergent	14%
Social investment: education and ______	healthcare	14%
Number of women who die from pregnancy per year per 100 000 is the ___ ___ ___	Maternal mortality rate	14%
	Myanmar	14%
The general population may be ____, making it harder to evacuate them	older	14%
Reviving the economy or environment of a run-down area	Regeneration	14%
The government also offers ___ exemptions	tax	14%
They use sophisticated _______ which requires experts and specialists	technology	14%
Large scale projects that aim for national or regional development e.g. Three Gorges Dam, Elizabeth Line	Top-down	14%
The process by which an increasing % of a countries population live in towns or cities	Urbanisation	14%
India is the _____ recipient of aid in history	biggest	10%
Doesn't consider resources, population or _____	climate	10%
_______: TV, radio, social media are used to update people	communication	10%
____ relief for countries who may not be able to afford to pay back money they have borrowed	debt	10%
Developing countries are _______ on developed countries	dependent	10%
Government policy has led to ______ being of high priority	education	10%
HDI puts together income, life ______, years in ______, and forms a compound measure between 0 and 1 that shows how socially developed a country is	expectancy education	10%
Increasing population means more food is needed so ___ is increased	Farming	10%
Average number of children born to each women in a country at any point in time	fertility rate	10%
____ coefficient measures distribution of income	Gini	10%
When soil is saturated after intense rainfall it causes ___	landslides	10%
GNI includes wealth created ______ of the country by TNCs	outside	10%
Causes of global inequalities: ___: Topography and environment affect access to an area and land use	physical	10%
Development can be by social, economic, and _____ metrics	political	10%
Socio- economic causes of urbanisation: the process of people moving from rural areas to urban areas	rural-urban migration	10%
Air in the eye of a tropical cyclone is always _____	sinking	10%
	South Africa	10%
____-____: Rapid industrial growth of manufacturing and development of infrastructure	Take off	10%
Tropical cyclones generally move ____	west	10%
These volcanoes produce ______ lava which is viscous and has high silica content	andesitic	7%
Whether there's enough land to build what you want to build	Availability	7%
They produce thin, runny lava with a low silica content called _____ lava	basaltic	7%
	Bhutan	7%
Factors influencing urban land use: The ___ of the land to buy and build on	Cost	7%
_____ _ _____: Further growth, technology used throughout economy	Drive to maturity	7%
How close the ______ is to a settlement	epicentre	7%
Factors affecting the scale of a hazard: How shallow the _____ is	focus	7%
_______ pulls the water down and it begins to fan out	gravity	7%
The fast winds found between two cells	jet stream	7%
	Nepal	7%
Corruptions ______ index grades countries from highly corrupt(0) to not corrupt(100)	perceptions	7%
Developed countries use their economic and political _____ to exploit others	power	7%
Workers have _____ such as sick pay, maternity leave and paid holidays	rights	7%
The outward spread of the built up area	suburbanisation	7%
________ ______: Limited technology, most people work on farmland rurally	Traditional society	7%
Eruptions are infrequent but ______	violent	7%
How easy it is to reach from other areas	Accessibility	3%
So a ______ of water is lifted up	column	3%
Transport/Communication. India's road network _____ in in size between 1990 and 2012	doubled	3%
The 2 case studies for earthquakes: Emerging country _____, Developed country____	Haiti Tohoku	3%
____ ____ _______: Wide range of goods. Wealth spent on military, education, welfare or luxuries.	High mass consumption	3%
	Historical sources	3%
A ______ volcano is where a plume of superheated rock rises up and melts the lithosphere.	hotspot	3%
They use basic technology which makes them easier to use and ___ by the locals independently	maintain	3%
Computer programs can be used to estimate likely paths of a storm	modelling	3%
Led by ___s or communities	NGO	3%
Tropical cyclones: emerging______ developed______	Philippines USA	3%
___ ______ for ____-____:Low technology, labour-intensive industries start to develop	Pre conditions take off	3%
Economic vulnerabilities: Richer countries have better access to accurate weather ___ and ___ data to know how the hazard might affect the country	predictions modelling	3%
A city which is by far the largest in a country	primate	3%
Satellite tracking and _____ technology track the approach of a tropical storm	radar	3%
Physical vulnerabilities: low _____ means that settlements are more vulnerable to storm surges	relief	3%
Problems with this method: Assumes that all countries begin developing at the same ____ ____	starting point	3%
___ ___ could contaminate water because of high water levels	storm surges	3%
The ability, or lack thereof, to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from a hazard	vulnerability	3%
They are funded by international _____, so there is a lot of money available to spend on them	banks	0%
Graph showing how employment in different sectors changes as a country develops	Clark-Fisher model	0%
The movement of people and employment from major cities to smaller settlements	Counter urbanisation	0%
Model is based on eighteenth and nineteenth century ______ which took advantage of other countries to develop in that way	Europe	0%
The process where services are provided to countries in the west from India	Outsourcing	0%
Whether you're allowed to build on it/what you're allowed to build on it ___ ___	Planning regulations	0%
They pay pay a ______ and reliable wage	regular	0%
_______ (money sent back to family abroad)	remittances	0%
However, India now _____ much more financial aid than they ______	sends receive	0%
This is coupled with increasingly ______ labour with a low cost	skilled	0%

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