AS Geography- Unit 1

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Topic 1 What is globalisation and how is it
changing

• Spend at least 25 mins on this section. One essay
  from four.
• Part A Data stimulus (10 marks)
• Part B Extended writing, using your compulsory
  case studies (15 marks)
• Top Tips
• Focus on time management
• Structure your response
• Focus on key words and command words
• Use all resources
• Support your ideas with case studies examples

• 3) Give 5 factors that have accelerated
  globalisation
• 4) Describe how modern TNCs are structured
  to maximise profits

AS Geography- Unit 1

• The Exam-
• 90 mins
• 90 marks
• Section A tests the breadth of your knowledge
  understanding across the whole unit . Marked out
  of 65. Consists of 6 short, structured questions
  x3 physical x3 human.
• Section B tests the depth of your knowledge.

• Define globalisation
• Give an example of
• Economic globalisation
• Cultural globalisation
• Political globalisation
• Demographic globalisation
• Environmental globalisation

1 min 1 mark
Topic 2 Global Groupings

• What is HDI and why is it a good measure of
  development?
• Give 3 reasons for the rapid development of SE
  Asia
• Name two political groupings

First Big Case Study
1) On the world map mark on Rich,
industrialised countries NICs Oil rich
LDCs Ex-soviet states

• McDonalds
• Role TNCs play in the redistribution of wealth.
• A few facts on the location scale of the
  investment
• 2)

x 3 positives x 3 negatives

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Topic 3 Global Networks
Third Big Case Study
Second Big Case Study

• Name 3 natural features/ factors that give a
  location an initial advantage
• Name 3 human factors
• 7) Factors that lead to a location becoming
  switched off are
• the of the above

• Name an early connection think early 1900s!
• Explain why this connection developed
• What has happened to the old colonial empires?
• Name 3 modern networks

• China, a global winner
• State Chinas recent economic growth
• Give 3 reasons for this growth
• -
• -
• -
• Which part of China is more switched on?

• Tesco, Thailand , Poland etc
• A few facts on location scale of investment
• 2)

x 3 positives x 3 negatives

x 3 positives x 3 negatives

Topic 4 Global Roots
Topic 5 - On the move
Fourth Big Case Study

• 2) In Stage 2 DR but
• BR
  .
• Explain why this happened
• 3) In Stage 3 DR and BR
  starts to rapidly . Explain why
  this happened
• Today our population changes due
• to .

Fifth Big Case Study

• North Korea or Laos A global loser
• Sum up N Koreas/Laos global position using
  three statistics
• Give 3 reasons for its decline
• Give 3 impacts of this decline

1. The DTM describes the main changes in the UKs
   population since the start of the I
   R .

• Changes to the UKs population
• Family size has
• Age/ sex structure has
• Migration ethnicity has
• Jobs have
• Social status has

3

• Impacts on origin

• Impacts on host

Sixth Big Case Study
Seventh Big Case Study
x 3 positives x 3 negatives

x 2 positives x 2 negatives

• UKs Ageing Population
• Draw the rough shape of the UKs population
  pyramid
• Give 3 reasons for the shape

• Poles to the UK
• Explain how enlargement of the EU influenced this
  migration
• Impacts on host

3) Impacts on origin
x 3 positives x 3 negatives

Eighth Big Case Study
x 2 positives x 2 negatives

• Brits to Spain
• Give 3 reasons for this migration

x 2 positives x 2 negatives

Topic 6 - Megacities

• Give three reasons for the growth of modern
  megacities

• 3 key features of PLAN
• - Why is LA easier to manage than Mumbai?

1. Describe the location of the 10 biggest cities
   100 years ago
2. Describe the location of the 10 biggest cities
   today

Ninth Big Case Study

• Describe explain the growth of LA (2 ideas)
• 3 impacts

• LA A developed megacity
• Give 3 key dates/ events in the growth of LA
• - Explain why LA has become a megacity

Tenth Big Case Study
Mumbai A developing megacity
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• Give 3 key dates/ events in the growth of Mumbai
• - Explain why Mumbai has become a megacity

• 3 key features of VISION MUMBAI
• Why is Mumbai difficult to manage?

Topic 7 Global Challenges

• Advantages associated with globalisation
• x2 Economic
• x2 Social
• x2 Political
• x2 Environmental

• Describe explain the growth of Mumbai (2 ideas)
• - 3 impacts (-ve)

Disadvantages associated with globalisation
Managing the disadvantages
3) Three Rs
Key Terms
1) Fair Trade
x 2 positives x 2 negatives

• x2 Economic
• x2 Social
• x2 Political
• x2 Environmental

x 2 positives x 2 negatives

4) Free Trade
2) Ethical Shopping
x 2 positives x 2 negatives

x 2 positives x 2 negatives

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Ageing population Agenda 21 Baby booms Carbon
sink Centrally planned economies Reverse
colonialism Connections, connected,
disconnected Core and periphery Deindustrialisatio
n Digital divide Dynamic system Ecological
footprint Economic migrants Edge
city Enclaves Ethnic enclave Export processing
zones Fair trade Fertility rate First, third
world Fortress Europe Free Trade Globalisation Gre
y pound Greying Host nations Hyper-urbanisation Il
legal migrant IMF Immigration Informal
sector Inputs and outputs Just-in-time Megacity
Megalopolis Immigration Millennium development
goals Modernisation theory Natural increase and
decrease Net migration New economy Outsourcing Per
iphery Population structure Privatisation Pull
and push factors Quota Remittances Replacement
level Replacement migration Rural-urban
migration Seasonal Agriculture Workers Scheme
(SAWS) Seasonal workers Sheltered
accommodation Social cohesion Source
nations Structural adjustment packages Super
city Sustainable development Tariff Three
Ds Total Fertility Rate (TFR) Tourist
enclave Trading blocs Urbanisation World
Bank World city