Tourism questions

  1. Name 2 economic reasons people go on more holidays than they used to 60 years ago
  2. Name 2 technological reasons people go on more holidays than they used to 60 years ago
  3. Give two attractions of a city for a tourist
  4. Give two reasons less tourists visit Blackpool now than they did 40 years ago
  5. Name two strategies Blackpool have introduced to get more tourists back to their city
  6. What is the name of the tourist development model we have studied?
  7. Put these different stages of this tourism model in the right order: development, exploration, involvement, stagnation, consolidation
  8. What is the case study you have learnt about for ‘mass tourism in a tropical area’?
  9. List 3 advantages mass tourism brings to a tropical area
  10. List 3 disadvantages mass tourism brings to a tropical area
  11. What does sustainable tourism mean?
  12. List 5 ways the Masai Mara base camp counters the problems of mass tourism
  13. What does the phrase “last chance to see” mean in connection with tourism to extreme environments?
  14. What does AATO stand for in connection with tourism in the Antarctic?
  15. Name 2 problems cruise ships can bring to the Antarctic
  16. Name 2 ways people have tried to manage the impacts of tourism in the Antarctic
  17. What is the name of the effect that describes how a positive economic impact can lead to another and another positive economic impact?
  18. Name 2 external factors that can affect tourism numbers in a country
  19. What is mass tourism?
  20. What are the big 5 in Kenya?
  21. In which part of the tourism course have we studied a bird described as ‘chin strap’?

Water on the land Questions

  1. Name 4 methods a river transports material
  2. Name 4 methods a river erodes material
  3. Where in a river long profile does vertical erosion happen the most?
  4. Where in a river long profile is the valley floor wider?
  5. When a waterfall retreats upstream what feature is formed?
  6. What type of erosion makes the plunge pool deeper?
  7. When a meander gets cut off from the river what landform is created?
  8. Where does a river fastest: the inside or the outside of the river?
  9. Look at your answer to q.8 why is a meander deeper on the outside?
  10. What is a slip off slope?
  11. Why is a flood plain fertile?
  12. Describe what a levee is
  13. Why does a river deposit material when it overflows its banks?
  14. Name the 2 flooding river case studies: which is from a richer country and which is from a poorer country?
  15. What does urbanisation to the surface of the land that makes a river more likely to flood?
  16. Name two other reasons why one river might be more prone to flooding than another
  17. Name two strategies used in Bangladesh to deal with the effects of flooding
  18. Name 2 methods of hard engineering and 2 methods of soft engineering
  19. Name two places affected by the river Severn flood
  20. What is water deficit?
  21. Where in the UK do we have water deficit?
  22. What is a reservoir?
  23. Name 2 ways that Rutland Water is managed sustainably
  24. What is lag time?
  25. Which type of transportation does this describe: a means of carrying fine material in the river as it floats

Coastal zone questions

  1. Name 4 methods the sea material
  2. Name 4 methods the sea erodes material
  3. What is the name of the wind that controls the main direction of longshore drift
  4. What is swash?
  5. Which wave type does this best describe: short wave length, steep, high, strong backwash?
  6. What is undercutting?
  7. Describe what a wave cut platform looks like
  8. What is a wave cut notch?
  9. What type of erosion can have particular effect on a crack in a cliff?
  10. What comes first; a cave or an arch?
  11. Name 2 places on a coast deposition might happen
  12. What 2 features occur where there are alternating bands of hard and soft rock?
  13. Why does a spit sometimes have a curved end?
  14. Why does a spit often start where the coastline changes direction?
  15. Name 3 things global warming causes that has made sea levels rise
  16. In which Ocean are the Maldives?
  17. What is salinisation?
  18. How has salinisation affected the Maldives
  19. Where in the world is the Holderness coast?
  20. Give 2 reasons the Holderness coast erodes so quickly
  21. Name 2 types of hard coastal engineering
  22. Name 2 types of soft coastal engineering
  23. Name 2 settlements along the Holderness coast
  24. Name one environmental effect of coastal erosion at Holderness
  25. What is Studland our case study for?
  26. Name 2 unique characteristics of Studland’s ecosystems
  27. List 3 ways people try to sustainably manage Studland

Restless Earth questions

  1. What is the name of the current that carries heat out from the centre of the earth?
  2. Name the plate boundary where plates move passed each other
  3. Why are volcanic eruptions normally less violent at constructive plate margins?
  4. What is a subduction zone?
  5. What type of mountains are the Alps?
  6. What 2 types of plate margins collided to form the Alps?
  7. What is a geosyncline?
  8. Name two ways people have adapted to living in the Alps
  9. How would a supervolcanic eruption mean less food produced over the planet?
  10. What type of volcano do you find at constructive plate margins?
  11. Name one short term response to the Montserrat eruption
  12. Name one long term response to the Montserrat eruption
  13. What was the closest country to the Indian ocean/boxing day tsunami
  14. What is the name of the group of effects that is mainly connected to finance and money?
  15. Name one long term response to the Indian Ocean/boxing day tsunami
  16. What does PPP stand for?
  17. Name 2 ways shake out people be ready for an earthquake
  18. Name one way you can make a building more earthquake proof
  19. Name 2 reasons the Nepal earthquake affected rural areas in a particularly bad way
  20. The Kobe earthquake happened in which richer country?
  21. Despite happening in a richer country many thousands were killed by the Kobe quake. Name one reason for this.
  22. Which measuring system records the magnitude of an earthquake?
  23. What is the difference between the epicentre and the focus of an earthquake?

Changing Urban Environment Questions

  1. What does CBD stand for?
  2. What is the name for a building site that has been built on before?
  3. What urban zone do you find most terraced housing in?
  4. What is pedestrianisation?
  5. Name one economic and one social effect of traffic congestion in urban areas
  6. What is ethnic segregation?
  7. Name two ways to reduce the problems connected with ethnic segregation
  8. Name two reasons CBDs are in decline
  9. Where in the world is Bedzed?
  10. Name one way Bedzed a sustainable urban area via its housing
  11. Name one way Bedzed a sustainable urban area via the way its planned for transport
  12. Name one way Bedzed a sustainable urban area via the way people are involved in the community
  13. What is a squatter settlement?
  14. What is an informal job?
  15. Name an indirect (knock on) benefit of reducing crime in a squatter settlement
  16. Name 3 things Favelo Bairro attempted to do to improve people’s quality of life
  17. Give one example of self help in Rocinha
  18. What is infrastructure?
  19. What is rapid industrialisation
  20. Give 2 reasons why government in poorer countries find it hard to deal with air and water pollution in urban areas
  21. What is e-waste?
  22. Name one problem e waste creates?

Development Gap

  1. What do we mean by development when we are talking about countries?
  2. Define standard of living
  3. What phrase does this define? “the standard of health, comfort, and happiness experienced by an individual or group”
  4. What does GNI (also called GNP) measure?
  5. What does HDI stand for?
  6. What 3 things contribute to measuring a country’s HDI?
  7. Name one reason that measuring a country’s development by using GNI is not accurate?
  8. Why is dividing the wolrd into richer(MEDC) and poorer (LEDC) now thought to be too simple. (don’t repeat your answer to q.7)
  9. What is global inequality?
  10. Name one way a country’s government can be an obstacle to development?
  11. Name 2 physical characteristics that can be an obstacle to a country developing?
  12. Name 2 other characteristics that can be an obstacle to a country developing?
  13. What is bilateral aid?
  14. What is multilateral aid?
  15. What does NGO stand for?
  16. Name 2 schemes Water Aid has introduced in Uganda
  17. Name two advantages of not having to walk miles to fetch water
  18. In Fair trade, what is a guaranteed price?
  19. In Fair trade, what is social premium?
  20. Name one reason world trade is unfair to poorer countries
  21. What 2 countries did we compare when looking at the development gap in the EU?
  22. What is the core and what is the periphery of a trading area?
  23. How does good infrastructure help you be a more developed country?
  24. What is the relief of a country?
  25. Why does Poland’s relief hinder its development?