WJEC A-Level Geography Changing Places (AS Unit 2) overview quiz quiz

Absolute location

Sense of place

Everyday locale

Geographical site

The balance of in-migration and out-migration

The change in age structure over time

The balance of births and deaths

The total population at a census

Birth rates

Migration rates

The total population

Death rates

High birth rates and a youthful population

An ageing population with many elderly dependants

High net out-migration of young working-age adults

A balanced age structure with low birth and death rates

The exact map coordinates that fix the precise absolute position of a place on the surface of the Earth

The distinctive character of a place shaped by its physical, historical, economic and cultural features

The total number of people who currently live in a place, as recorded in the most recent census

The transport links such as roads, railways and airports that connect a place to other settlements

They are always completely accurate and give an entirely objective and neutral picture of a place

They are only ever produced by national governments and never by the media, artists or businesses

They are partial and constructed, so they shape perception and can differ for insiders and outsiders

They never change over time, so an old representation describes a place just as well as a recent one

Merthyr Tydfil

Snowdonia

Fairbourne

Cardiff Bay

Re-imaging changes perception of a place, while regeneration is its physical and economic renewal

They mean exactly the same thing and the two terms can be used interchangeably without any difference

Regeneration changes how a place is perceived, while re-imaging rebuilds its physical infrastructure

Both terms refer only to natural population change through births and deaths, not to anything else

The rapid growth of large cities through both in-migration and natural population increase

The movement of people from cities into smaller towns, villages and accessible rural areas

The return of people to regenerated inner-city areas after a period of earlier decline

The outward spread of a city onto greenfield land at its expanding suburban edge

It always lowers local house prices, making homes easier for local people to afford

It steadily increases the resident local working-age population throughout the whole year

It can raise house prices, leave homes empty and affect Welsh-speaking communities

It guarantees more local services such as shops, schools and bus routes for residents

Rapid growth and expansion of the coal and steel industries

A sharp increase in birth rates among local valleys families

Large-scale international in-migration into the valleys towns

Economic restructuring and the loss of coal and steel

Because it is constantly remade by flows of people, money, ideas and representations

Because it never changes over time and stays exactly the same from one century to the next

Because it is only a fixed point on a map, defined purely by its coordinates and nothing else

Because it is experienced in exactly the same way by every single observer, insider or outsider