WJEC GCSE Geography Specification B

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WJEC GCSE Geography Specification B

• Theme 1 Challenges of Living in the Built
  Environment

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Learning Objectives

• To understand how quality of life is different
  from standard of living.
• To know the different ways wealth and poverty are
  measured.

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Quality of Life a measure of your happiness.
What influences the QUALITY of your life?
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Factors that affect my Quality of Life
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Standard of Living

• As a persons quality of life is hard to measure
  and it changes so often a persons standard of
  living needs to be measured so the Government
  knows where needs the most help.
• Your task
• In pairs, think of all the ways we can MEASURE
  standard of living.

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Types of Poverty

• Income poverty if your income is less than 60
  of the UK average
• Fuel Poverty more than 10 of income is spent
  on energy bills
• In the UK
• 3.9 million children live in poverty
• Half of single parents live in poverty
• 22 of all households live in poverty
• 19 of all pensioners live in poverty

Give three reasons why a household might
experience poverty
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Poverty According to Ethnicity
Ethnic Group living in income poverty
Bangladeshi 67
Pakistani 55
Black African 46
Black Caribbean 30
Indian 28
White 19
Task Why is it important that the Government is
aware of the differences shown in the table above?
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Plenary Is it simply our income that makes us
happy with where we live?