AQA GCSE Geography 8035
Climate Change
Coastal Landscapes in the UKUK landscape option
Cold EnvironmentsLiving world option
Ecosystems
EnergyResource option
FoodResource option
Geographical Applications: Fieldwork Enquiry
Geographical Skills
Glacial Landscapes in the UKUK landscape option
Hot DesertsLiving world option
Resource Management
River Landscapes in the UKUK landscape option
Tectonic Hazards
The Changing Economic World
Tropical Rainforests
UK Physical Landscapes
Urban Issues and Challenges
WaterResource option
Weather Hazards
The Changing Economic World
Economic futures in the UK
- 3 things to know
- Paper 2
Overview
De-industrialisation, globalisation and government policy, the post-industrial economy of services, information technology, science and business parks, industry's environmental impacts, rural change, transport investment, the north–south divide and the UK's links with the EU and the Commonwealth.
What you need to know
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Why do port and airport capacity matter to the UK economy?
How has globalisation reduced the number of manufacturing jobs in the UK?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What is de-industrialisation, and which UK industries did it hit hardest?
Model answer
The decline of manufacturing and heavy industry; in the UK it closed coal mines, steelworks, shipyards and textile mills and threw thousands out of work.
- 2
How has globalisation reduced the number of manufacturing jobs in the UK?
Model answer
Firms moved production abroad where labour, land and energy are cheaper, so goods once made in Britain are now imported instead.
- 3
Give two ways government decisions have reshaped the UK economy.
Model answer
State-owned industries were sold off and loss-making pits and works were allowed to close, and grants and enterprise zones were later used to attract new firms to the areas that suffered.
- 4
What is a post-industrial economy?
Model answer
An economy in which most people work in services and knowledge-based work rather than in factories and heavy industry.
- 5
How has the growth of information technology changed where and how people in the UK work?
Model answer
It has created jobs in computing, software and communications, and it allows many people to work from home or from offices anywhere in the country.
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What are service industries, and which service is the UK's largest overseas earner?
Model answer
Industries that supply a service rather than a product, such as retailing, transport, health, education and tourism; finance and banking earn the most from abroad.
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