People of the Planet | OCR GCSE Geography A (J383)
People of the Planet
- 122 questions
- 9 subtopics
- Component 02
- Component 02
People of the Planet is examined in Component 02, The World Around Us.
It covers Defining and measuring development, the global pattern of development: ACs, EDCs and LIDCs, why development is uneven, and the role of aid, A developing or emerging country: its context and economy, Rostow’s model and the country’s path of development, cities, megacities and world cities, why urban growth rates differ around the world, rapid urbanisation in poorer countries: causes and effects and A major city in a poorer or emerging country.
Sample questions from People of the Planet
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Defining and measuring development
What is meant by sustainable development?
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Growth that meets the needs of people today without preventing future generations from meeting their own needs. -
The global pattern of development: ACs, EDCs and LIDCs
How do development indicators show what uneven development means for ordinary people?
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They put numbers on differences in how long people live, how long they stay in school and how much they earn. -
Why development is uneven, and the role of aid
What is meant by the exploitation of a poorer country’s natural resources?
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Outside companies extract its minerals, timber, oil or fish and take most of the profit out of the country. -
A developing or emerging country: its context and economy
What does it mean if a country’s principal exports are primary products?
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Most of its earnings come from raw materials such as crops, minerals or fuels rather than from manufactured goods. -
Rostow’s model and the country’s path of development
What marks the take-off stage of Rostow’s model?
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Manufacturing grows rapidly in a few industries, cities expand fast, and investment takes a much larger share of national income. -
Cities, megacities and world cities
What is the difference between a megacity and a world city?
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A megacity is defined by the size of its population, and a world city by the reach of its global influence. -
Why urban growth rates differ around the world
Why do some large cities in advanced countries lose residents to smaller towns?
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Better transport and communications let people live further out, where housing is cheaper and the surroundings quieter. -
Rapid urbanisation in poorer countries: causes and effects
How can the mechanisation of farming cause rural to urban migration?
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Machines replace farm labourers, so families lose their income and move to the city to look for work.
The 9 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Defining and measuring development | What development means, its economic, social and environmental definitions, sustainable development, gross national income per capita and its limits, the Human Development Index, and what internet users do and do not reveal. | 12 |
| The global pattern of development: ACs, EDCs and LIDCs | Uneven development, what life expectancy and infant mortality reveal, how indicators show what it means for people, how it drives migration, advanced countries, emerging and developing countries and low-income developing countries, where each group lies, and how the global pattern has changed. | 10 |
| Why development is uneven, and the role of aid | Physical reasons a country struggles to develop, the legacy of colonial rule, dependence on raw material exports, exploitation of natural resources, conflict and debt, short-term emergency and long-term development aid, bilateral and multilateral aid, tied aid, and how aid can hinder development. | 10 |
| A developing or emerging country: its context and economy | How location, landscape, climate, ecosystems, resources, political stability and links with other states shape a country's development, imports and exports, foreign direct investment, employment structure, population, education, healthcare, mobile technology and aid, and Nigeria's oil exports, political history, investment by Shell and China, and freedom from wild polio. | 25 |
| Rostow’s model and the country’s path of development | The five stages of Rostow’s model, from traditional society through the preconditions for take-off, take-off and the drive to maturity to the age of high mass consumption, placing a country on the model, and criticisms of its single path, its neglect of trade and debt, and its assumption of forward change. | 10 |
| Cities, megacities and world cities | What makes a settlement a city, megacities against world cities, how megacity numbers have risen, where the earliest and today's megacities lie, and where growth will be fastest. | 10 |
| Why urban growth rates differ around the world | Urbanisation against urban growth, slow urban growth in advanced countries, residents leaving large cities for smaller towns, inner-city decline and people moving back in, the fastest growth in low-income developing countries, emerging countries compared with the poorest, natural increase, and why fast growth makes a city hard to govern. | 10 |
| Rapid urbanisation in poorer countries: causes and effects | Push and pull factors in rural to urban migration, why young adults leave the countryside, the mechanisation of farming, natural growth, squatter settlements, the informal economy, and the social, economic and environmental consequences of rapid urbanisation. | 10 |
| A major city in a poorer or emerging country | A city's place in its country, region and the wider world, national and international migration and how it changes a city, culture, ethnicity, consumption and leisure, the challenges of housing, transport and waste and sustainable ways of tackling them, and Lagos, with Makoko, its bus rapid transit and Blue Line, and the Olusosun dump. | 25 |
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.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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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.
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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.
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