GCSE Geography Edexcel B - Human Quiz

What is a conurbation

• The growth of cities

• A continuous built up area formed by merging towns

• The decline of the high street

• People moving to rural areas

What term is used to describe the major core region of cities that have the potential to drive the economy of North England?

• Nothern workhosue

• Northern powerhouse

• Powerhouse of the Northerners

• Potential Improvements

Which is NOT a way that the UK government and the EU have tried to make rural peripheral areas more attractive for investors?

• Enterprise Zone

• EU grants

• Regional development grants

• Multiplier affect

Which are reasons for the the UK's rising birth rate?

• More women in their 20's choosing to have children due to lack of employment caused by the recession

• increasing number of overseas born women having children

• more women at an older age choosing to have children when they had previously postponed

• Equal opportunities for women to work

Which are secondary sector jobs?

• Call centre

• Coal miner

• Shipyard worker

• Steel worker

Which process can be described as

"where one industry collapses the others soon follow"

• Domino effect

• Collaspe all scenario

• Tumble down effect

• Total shut down

Which economy is based on the production of goods and services is based primarily upon knowledge-intensive activities.

• Knowledge economy

• New sectors

• E-knowledge industry

• WWW knowledge sector

Which industry that can be placed and located at any location without effect from factors of production such as resources, land, labour, and capital

• Fixed

• Footlose

• Fancy free

• Rural

What has declined in Newcastle in the 1970's

• Manufacturing

• Farming

• Call centres

• Shopping centres

What was not a factor in Newcastle's site?

• Bridging point

• Access to water

• Defence

• Access to sheep