WJEC A-Level Geography 601-8455-3
Coastal Landscapes
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Changing Places
Water and Carbon Cycles
Global Migration
Global Governance of the Oceans
EcosystemsContemporary theme
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Economic Growth and Challenge: ChinaContemporary theme
Development in an African ContextContemporary theme
Energy Challenges and DilemmasContemporary theme
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Fieldwork and Geographical Skills
Changing Places
How place change affects people's lives
- 3 things to know
- AS Unit 2
Overview
Recall questions on what economic change does to work, housing and travel, the loss of a village school or local shop, reputation and prospects, lived experience, and why the same change is felt unevenly.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
Assess why place change is rarely experienced evenly across a community.
Give three ways economic change in a place directly affects a resident's daily life.
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
Give three ways economic change in a place directly affects a resident's daily life.
Model answer
The work available and the income it pays, the cost and security of housing, and the journey needed to reach a job.
- 2
Explain how the closure of a village school affects the community beyond the pupils.
Model answer
Families with children stop moving in, the building that hosted community events is lost, and parents must travel further, which weakens the daily contact that holds a village together.
- 3
How does a change in a neighbourhood's shops alter residents' routines?
Model answer
Losing a butcher, baker or post office forces trips further afield, which costs time and money and removes the everyday encounters that took place in them.
- 4
Explain why rising house prices affect young people in a place differently from older owners.
Model answer
Existing owners gain wealth on paper, while young people face deposits and rents beyond local wages and must leave the area to house themselves.
- 5
Give two effects on residents when a place becomes a tourist destination.
Model answer
Seasonal jobs and new facilities become available, but congestion, parking pressure and higher prices in shops make ordinary life harder.
- 6
How can a change in a place's reputation affect someone's prospects?
Model answer
A postcode with a stigma can influence how applications for jobs, credit and insurance are treated, so reputation carries real economic consequences.
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