The Changing Economic World | AQA GCSE Geography (8035)

The Changing Economic World

126 questions
8 subtopics
Paper 2
Paper 2

The Changing Economic World is examined in Paper 2, Challenges in the human environment.

It covers Classifying development, and how it is measured, why measures fall short, the Demographic Transition Model, and causes of uneven development, the consequences of uneven development, closing the development gap, and tourism as a strategy, A rapidly developing country: change, industry, aid and impacts and economic futures in the UK.

Sample questions from The Changing Economic World

Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.

Classifying development, and how it is measured

What is meant by the development gap?

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The difference in wealth and wellbeing between the richest and the poorest countries of the world.
Why measures fall short, the Demographic Transition Model, and causes of uneven development

In Stage 1 of the Demographic Transition Model, what are birth and death rates doing, and what happens to population?

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Both are high and swing up and down, so the population stays small and grows very slowly.
The consequences of uneven development

Why is health worse in the least developed countries?

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There are fewer doctors, hospitals and medicines, and many people have no clean water, no sanitation and too little food.
Closing the development gap, and tourism as a strategy

What are microfinance loans?

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Very small loans made to individuals or small groups who could never borrow from a bank, letting them start or expand a tiny business.
A rapidly developing country: change, industry, aid and impacts

What is the quaternary sector?

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The part of the economy based on knowledge and information, including scientific research, development and high-technology work.
Nigeria: a newly emerging economy

How has Nigeria's industrial structure changed?

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Farming once employed most people, but services now make up more than half of the economy and manufacturing such as food processing and cement has grown.
Economic futures in the UK

What is a science park, and what kind of work goes on there?

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A site of scientific and high-technology firms, usually on the edge of a city and linked to a university, where research and development work is carried out.
UK economic change: named examples

How has population growth changed rural South Cambridgeshire?

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Its population rose from about 149,000 in 2011 to about 162,000 in 2021 as commuters and high-tech workers moved in, pushing up house prices and the demand for new homes and roads.

The 8 subtopics

One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.

Subtopic	What it covers	Questions
Classifying development, and how it is measured	What development means, economic development against quality of life, low income, newly emerging and high income countries, the development gap, and measures from gross national income per head, birth, death and infant mortality rates to literacy and the Human Development Index.	16
Why measures fall short, the Demographic Transition Model, and causes of uneven development	Why average income and development data mislead, what each stage of the Demographic Transition Model shows, and the physical, economic and historical causes of uneven development.	10
The consequences of uneven development	Disparities in wealth within and between countries, the health gap shown by life expectancy and infant mortality, how poor health holds development back, push and pull factors, economic migrants and refugees, and the costs and benefits of emigration.	10
Closing the development gap, and tourism as a strategy	Investment, industrial development, aid, intermediate technology, Fairtrade, debt relief and microfinance, criticisms of aid, how tourism brings income, jobs and infrastructure, and how far tourism has narrowed Jamaica's development gap.	18
A rapidly developing country: change, industry, aid and impacts	A developing country's location, importance and context, economic sectors and changing industrial structure, how manufacturing stimulates growth, transnational corporations, changing political and trading relationships, types and impacts of aid, and the environmental and quality of life effects of growth.	24
Nigeria: a newly emerging economy	Nigeria's location, importance and political, cultural and environmental context, its reliance on oil and changing industries, Shell in the Niger Delta, its new political and trading ties with Africa and China, aid, environmental damage and uneven gains in quality of life.	15
Economic futures in the UK	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.	20
UK economic change: named examples	Named examples of UK economic change: the Cambridge Science Park, Torr Quarry, growth in South Cambridgeshire and decline in the Outer Hebrides, the Elizabeth line, HS2, London Gateway, Liverpool2, Heathrow, the Northern Powerhouse, leaving the EU and the Commonwealth.	13

The Changing Economic World is 126 of the 1,429 questions in the guide.Get the guide, £7

How the guide is worked

Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.

Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.

Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.