AQA GCSE Geography Paper 2 Challenges in the human environment overview quiz quiz

The total number of people who are living within a country at any one time

The movement of people away from the cities and out to the countryside instead

The steady decline of city populations as people leave to move elsewhere

The increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities

More and better-paid jobs in the city

Drought in the countryside destroying the crops

Widespread poverty in the rural villages

Mechanisation of farming reducing the farm work

By demolishing all of the favelas and clearing the land completely

By upgrading them with roads, sanitation, electricity and services

By moving all of the residents away to live in another city entirely

By only banning any new building work from taking place in the future

The Indus Basin irrigation scheme in Pakistan

The Favela Bairro Project in Rio de Janeiro

The London 2012 Olympic Park in Stratford

The Northern Powerhouse project in the UK

Gross National Income (GNI) per head

The birth rate per thousand people

The adult literacy rate of the country

The Human Development Index (HDI)

The death rate falls first

The birth rate falls first

Both fall at exactly the same time

Neither rate ever changes

A lower-income country (LIC) like Malawi

A newly emerging economy (NEE)

A higher-income country (HIC) like the UK

A fully post-industrial economy like Japan

They create no jobs at all for any of the local Nigerian workers

They never pay any taxes at all to the Nigerian government

Much of the profit leaves the country and extraction causes pollution

They completely prevent any economic growth from happening in the country

An economy that is based mainly on farming and other primary industry

An economy that has no service sector or tertiary industry at all

An economy that is based only on heavy manufacturing and factory work

An economy where most jobs are in services and quaternary research

Surplus in the wet north and west, deficit in the dry south-east

There is a water surplus everywhere across the whole of the country

There is a water deficit everywhere across the whole of the country

There is a water surplus only in the dry and crowded south-east

Buying only local, seasonal produce from nearby farms

The Green Revolution and large irrigation schemes

Growing food in small urban gardens and allotments

Reducing the amount of food that is wasted at home

Free trade

Debt creation

Fair trade

Tariffs on exports