Geography

• Which course of the river is fast flowing, shallow and very straight?

  Upper course
• What are some methods of hard engineering?

  Dams

  Channel straightening

  Embankments

  Flood relief channel
• What are some soft engineering methods?

  Flood plain zoning

  Flood warnings

  Preparation

  Planting trees

  River restoration
• What is international management?

  Other countries around the world helping
• What is national management?

  The country helps to protect the forests
• What is local management?

  Where help is in a small area close by
• What are the conditions for a cold environment?

  Temperature is 0*C or below

  Winter is usually -40*C

  Less than 100mm rainfall anually
• What is a wilderness?

  An area of land that has been largely undisturbed by modern human development.
• What is mitigation?

  Reduce or prevent effects of something from happening.
• What does sustainability mean?

  Being good for the environment and people which lasts a long time.
• What does adaptation mean?

  Does not aim to reduce or stop global warming but to limit its negative effects.
• What does Development mean?

  Positive change that makes peoples quality of life change.
• What is the development Gap?

  The different in standard of living between the richest and the poorest countries
• What are the different ways to measure development?

  GNI/GDP

  Human development index (HDI)

  Birth rates

  Death rates

  Infant mortality

  People per doctor

  Literacy rates
• What is uneven development?

  How the development is different across the world. The development process takes place at different speeds.
• What causes uneven development?

  Extreme weather

  Landlocked

  Climate

  Disease

  Difference in value of products

  Colonisation and slave trade

  Conflict
• What are the industrial sectors?

  Primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary.
• What does politics mean?

  How a country is run. The rules in this country from how education works to how the country works to how the country trades.
• What does political relationships mean?

  How a country deals with other countries, it is often about who trades with.
• What does TNC's stand for?

  Trans - national corporations.
• What are TNC's?

  Huge companies that are based in multiple countries.
• What is the multiplier effect?

  One investment leads to a snowballing of economic activity
• What is the primary sector?

  Give an example.

  The primary sector is the extractive sector.

  An example would be a farmer.
• What is the secondary sector?

  Give an example.

  The secondary sector is the manufacturing sector where they make products out of the materials extracted by the primary sector.

  An example of this is a manufactor
• What is the tertiary sector?

  Give an example.

  The tertiary sector is the service sector.

  An example of this is a teacher or a doctor.
• What is the quaternary sector?

  Knowledge-based sector that includes intellectual activities such as research, development, and information technology.

  An example of this is a business owner.
• What is globalisation?

  Give an example.

  Growth and spread of ideas around the world.

  More global trade, importing cheap products, more people employed in the quaternary sector.
• What is government policy?

  Give an example.

  How a government decides to run a country will impact the types of jobs people can do.

  Closed mines and car factories, privatised government industries like transport, increase quaternary jobs.
• What is de-industrialisation?

  Give an example.

  Many primary sector jobs being shut down.

  Thousands left unemployed, de-multiply effect (area goes into decline), businesses struggles and there was low income.