A-Level Geography Flashcards
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What is meant by 'urban heat island' effect?
Answer: Higher temperatures recorded in urban areas compared to surrounding rural areas
The urban heat island effect occurs because built surfaces absorb and retain more heat than natural landscapes, making cities measurably warmer than surrounding rural areas.
Which economic sector is described as involving the extraction of raw materials from the natural environment?
Answer: Primary sector
The primary sector involves extracting raw materials directly from the environment, including farming, fishing, forestry, and mining.
What is the 'multiplier effect' in economic geography?
Answer: The way in which one economic investment generates further economic activity and jobs
The multiplier effect describes how an initial investment or job creation generates additional economic activity as money circulates through the local economy, creating further employment and income.
Which of the following best defines 'sustainable development'?
Answer: Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs
This is the widely accepted Brundtland Commission (1987) definition of sustainable development, balancing economic, social, and environmental needs across time.
In river management, what is a 'levée'?
Answer: A natural or artificial embankment along a river bank
A levée is a raised embankment, either naturally formed by deposition during floods or artificially constructed, running alongside a river to prevent flooding.
What is 'counterurbanisation'?
Answer: The movement of people from urban areas into rural or suburban areas
Counterurbanisation is the process by which people and businesses move out of urban centres into surrounding rural or suburban areas, often enabled by improved transport and remote working.
El Niño is associated with which of the following ocean and atmospheric conditions?
Answer: Unusually warm sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean
El Niño is characterised by unusually warm sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, which disrupts normal atmospheric circulation and weather patterns globally.
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