Preguntas Geografía Tercera Evaluación

Unit 15 Industry

What are secondary industries?

1. Secondary industries are also called…, because of…
2. Think about a “system” in industry
3. The finished products can be…
4. For an industry to be profitable…
5. The best location of industry
6. Do have the same location factors all industries?
7. Give examples of location factors in food processing, clothing manufacturer, newspapers and bakery

How has the location of industry in the UK changed?

8. Location of industry in the UK during the Industrial Revolution
9. Location of industry in the UK nowadays
10. Summarize the location factors in UK comparing the Industrial Revolution time and nowadays

Why were traditional industries located near to raw materials?

11. The UK iron and steel industry
12. Iron and steel production in South Wales
13. Explain the iron and steel industry evolution in the UK

Why are newer industries located close to markets?

14. Transnational corporations
15. Industries located close to markets: Nissan example in the UK
16. The ‘80 per cent local content’
17.  ‘Just-in-time’ policy

What are high-technology industries?

18. High-technology industries
19. Many high-tech companies are divided into two sections
20. High-tech industry location

What are the consequences of industrial decline?

21. The growth of industry in Teesside
22. Teesside during the 1960s
23. The decline of industry 1980s

What are the effects of regeneration?

24. Teesside in 2001
25. Do you know anything to compare Teesside in secondary sector?
26. TEES
27. Define ‘regeneration’ applied to secondary sector
28. What about regeneration in Teesside?

What are transnational corporations?

29. What are transnational corporations?
30. Structure of transnational corporations
31. Manufactured goods of transnational corporations. An example
32. Structure of transnational corporations: advantages and disadvantages

Advantages	Disadvantages

What are newly industrialized countries?

33. NICs
34. The first of the NICs: explain it
35. The latest of the NICs: explain it

Benefits	Problems

What is informal employment?

36. Formal sector
37. Informal sector
38. The informal sector problem:

 

Low profits		No investment

39. Working conditions in informal employment
40. Jua Kali
41. Jua Kali and the government
42. Jua Kali and ‘sustainable’

Unit 16 Tourism

What is the tourist industry?

1. Tourist industry
2. Types of time-tourism
3. Why tourism as exponent of the tertiary sector?
4. Tourism and its relations with the countries
5. Types of tourism
6. Reasons for the growth in tourism

What are National Parks?

7. What are National Parks?
8. National Parks in Britain have three main aims
9. NPA
10. National Parks in Great Britain

11. The term ‘National Park’ can be misleading

How can tourism be managed in National Parks?

12. Main problems in National Parks
13. A ‘honeypot’
14. Example: management plans in the Lake District National Park

A coastal holiday resort - Tolo, Greece

15. Why tourism in the Mediterranean site?
16. How tourism does affect local residents in the Mediterranean site?

A tropical holiday island – Sri Lanka

17. Why tourism in the tropical islands?
18. How tourism does affect local residents in the tropical islands?

How can tourism change the environment?

19. How can tourism change the environment?
20. Tourism changing the environment. What to do?

What is ecotourism?

21. What is ecotourism?
22. What does ecotourism pretend?

Unit 17 Managing resources

What are resources?

1. What are resources?
2. Types of resources
3. Types of natural resources
4. Types of non-renewable resources
5. Types of renewable resources
6. The demand for and use of the world’s resources continue to grow at an increasingly rapid rate. This is mainly due to:
7. Two problems in the managing of resources
8. Sustainable methods of managing resources
9. Sustainable resource management
10. Non-renewable energy resources: advantages and disadvantages
11. Renewable energy resources: advantages and disadvantages
12. Make a relation with the wealth of a country and its energy use

In the future:

How can the production of electricity affect the environment?

13. Electricity in Britain

Can wind help provide our energy needs?

14. Wind farms in Britain

15. Previsions of wind energy

How can resources be conserved?

16. Sustainable development
17. Global citizenship
18. Some ways in which non-renewable resources can be conserved. Write examples

What energy should they use in the UK?

19. At the moment, electricity in the UK is produced…
20. Fossil fuels, nuclear and renewable: advantages and disadvantages

Advantages of fossil fuels	Disadvantages of fossil fuels
Advantages of nuclear	Disadvantages of nuclear
Advantages of renewables	Disadvantages of renewables

What are the benefits and problems of Alaskan oil?

21. What are the benefits and problems of Alaskan oil?

How has Alaskan oil damaged the environment?

22. How has Alaskan oil damaged the environment?

Unit 18 Development

How can contrast in development be measured?

1. Try to define development
2. Try to measure the wealth of a country
3. The GNP per capita
4. Example: GNP in UK
5. Making comparisons between countries (GNP)
6. The world can be divided into two economic groups

7. Compare LEDCs and MEDCs
8. GNP is the most frequent method used to show differences in development between places. Development can also be measured…

How else may development be measured?

9. How else may development be measured?
10. The HDI is a composite of three variables:

11. The HDI can also:
12. The HDI in a country and between countries

What is sustainable development?

13. Sustainable development taking account resources
14. Sustainable development taking account people
15. Sustainable development (YOU HAVE TO ANSWER ONE OR TWO OF THESE CONCEPTS)

What is appropriate technology?

16. Appropriate technology is...
17. Compare appropriate technology taking account developed countries and developing ones
18. Practical Action in Kenya

What are the problems of getting a reliable supply of clean water?

19. WaterAid is…
20. WaterAid conclusions
21. WaterAid’s aims are to help people in some of the world’s poorest countries

What are the effects of differences in food supply?

22. What about the food supply (UN)?
23. A satisfactory diet as two important characteristics
24. The quantity of food consumed
25. Differences in the DES comparing countries
26. Why the differences in the DES comparing countries?
27. A healthy and balanced diet should include
28. What are the effects of differences in food supply? Developing countries
29. What are the effects of differences in food supply? Developed countries

Are there regional differences in the UK?

30. Are there regional differences in the UK?
31. Are there regional differences in the UK?
32. The EU has developed a regional policy in order to reduce disparities between regions
33. Urban population says: ‘urban areas provide a higher quality of life, with their jobs, shops, schools, hospitals, transport systems and entertainment’

Rural population says: ‘small towns, villages and the countryside provide a less congested, quieter and cleaner environment in which to live, so, a higher quality of life’

Is it true? Explain it:

Unit 19 Interdependence and globalization

What do we mean by interdependence and globalization?

1. Interdependence
2. Interdependence: elements
3. Globalization
4. Types of globalization
5. Globalization, by Oxfam
6. Compare interdependence and globalization

Why is global warming a world problem?

7. Which countries contribute the most to global warming?
8. Which countries contribute the most to global warming? Problems now and in the future
9. What are the predicted global effects?
10. Why is it difficult to get international agreement?

What are the main features of international trade?

11. Trade
12. Imports
13. Exports
14. Interdependence
15. Every country hopes to have a trade surplus, because
16. Trade deficit
17. Patterns of world trade

Patterns of world trade

18. Trade balance
19. Major trading groups
20. Other developed countries group
21. Important developing countries groups
22. Aims of the EU

Why is fair trade important?

23. In an ideal world there should be free trade. It is…
24. In the real world developing countries rarely get a fair deal, because…

25. Give an example of fairtrade throw somebody explanation
26. Tariffs
27. Quotas
28. Subsidies

How has the world’s fashion industry changed?

29. Transnational companies (TNCs): in favor or against them?
30. How a TNC operates on a world scale?

What is it like working for TNCs in a developing country?

31. What is it like working for TNCs in a developing country?

What is it like to live in extreme poverty?

32. Extreme poverty is…
33. Basic needs that could lead to extreme poverty
34. The world’s poorest people not only lack basic needs
35. The cycle of poverty

	Poor families each with several children
	Cycle of poverty
	Children may be illiterate and develop limited skills

36. Deprivation indicators

Why is aid needed?

37. Aid is…
38. The resources in aid may be in the form of…
39. The concept of global citizenship
40. Types of aid
41. Types of aid (diagram)

How did the world respond to the Indian Ocean tsunami?

42.  

Unit 20 Geographical skills

Ordnance Survey map skills

1. Symbols

2. Grid references

3. Types of grid references
4. Direction

5. Scale and distance

Contours and relief

6. Contours
7. Relief
8. Contour interval
9. Types of contours

10. Depending of types of contours, we can find
11. In contours and relief we have to take account

Cross sections

12. Cross section

13. Sketch cross-section

Using photographs in geography

14. Three main types of photos are used in GCSE Geography
15. Photo response

What different types of map are there?

16. A map is
17. Types of maps
18. Atlas maps
19. Atlas: parts
20. Dot maps

1 dot represents 100 000 people

21. Choropleth map

22. Isopleth maps
23. Types of isopleths

How can we use graphs in geography?

24. Graphs
25. Types of graphs
26. Bar graphs

27. Line graphs

28. Compound line graph

29. Pie graphs

30. Scatter graphs
31. Comparing scatter graphs
32. Types of scatter graphs

-          Positive correlation

-          Negative correlation

-          No correlation

How can we use the internet?

33. Tips for searching
34. Tips for reliability

35. Internet based maps

	What it is best for…	What it is not so good for…
Ordnance survey
Multimap
Streetmap
Google
About
Mapquest
Oldmaps

How can computers help us with presentation?

36. Spreadsheets
37. Spreadsheets tools
38. Graphs
39. Writing-up
40. Writing-up tools

These are the reasons:

41. Presentation