Eduqas GCSE Geography A Theme 6 Development and Resource Issues overview quiz quiz

It is an average that hides inequality and ignores quality of life

It is far too detailed about quality of life and daily living standards

It measures health and education directly rather than just wealth

It only applies to rich countries and cannot be used for poorer ones

Only the wealth of a country, measured by its GDP

Income, health (life expectancy) and education

Only the total population and the land area

Rainfall, temperature and other climate data

A harsh climate that makes farming and living difficult

A major earthquake striking and destroying towns and cities

Colonialism extracting resources and drawing arbitrary borders

Being landlocked, with no direct access at all to the sea for trade

By bringing in new jobs and valuable training for local workers

By improving the roads, ports and other infrastructure of the country

By transferring new technology and skills to the host country

By paying low wages, polluting and sending profits abroad

A fair, stable minimum price plus a community premium

The lowest possible price the buyer can manage to negotiate

No payment at all until the goods have all been fully sold on

Only access to free trade markets, with no guaranteed minimum price

It can never be misused once it has been handed over

It can create dependency or be misused by corrupt governments

It always guarantees that development will definitely happen

It has no drawbacks at all and is always the perfect solution

About 10 percent

About 30 percent

About 70 percent

About 95 percent

Having far too much clean water for a country's everyday needs

A type of flooding that strikes low-lying areas after heavy rain

Water that is always completely free for everyone to use as they wish

Lacking a reliable supply of enough safe, clean water to meet needs

Conservation (efficient use, fixing leaks, drip irrigation)

Building large new dams to store up river water in big reservoirs

Desalination of sea water using huge amounts of energy

Long-distance water transfers piped across the country

They are the same thing and there is no real difference between the two

Mitigation reduces the causes (emissions); adaptation copes with the effects

Mitigation copes with the effects, while adaptation reduces the causes instead

Both of them only ever mean planting more trees and nothing else at all

It reduces all forms of pollution and waste right across the whole of the world

It has no real environmental impact of any kind at all

It increases waste, pollution, resource depletion and carbon emissions

It only affects poorer countries, never the richer ones

Clearing even more forest to make space for farming

Building yet more roads straight through natural habitats

Increasing the pollution of rivers, lakes and streams

Reforestation, rewilding and wetland restoration