People of the UK | OCR GCSE Geography A (J383)
People of the UK
- 93 questions
- 7 subtopics
- Component 01
- Component 01
People of the UK is examined in Component 01, Living in the UK Today.
It covers the UK’s trade, media and cultural links with the world, the UK’s geographical diversity and its inequalities, uneven development within the UK, and the effects of economic growth, how the UK’s population structure has changed since 1900, immigration into the UK in the twenty-first century, urban trends in the UK and their effects and A major UK city: its people, challenges and ways of life.
Sample questions from People of the UK
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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The UK’s trade, media and cultural links with the world
Which single country is the UK's largest trading partner?
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The United States of America, which buys more UK exports than any other individual nation. -
The UK’s trade, media and cultural links with the world
Why does the UK import so much of its food?
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Its climate cannot grow tropical or out-of-season produce, and shoppers expect a full choice all year round. -
The UK’s geographical diversity and its inequalities
What is life expectancy?
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The average number of years that a person can expect to live, measured from birth. -
The UK’s geographical diversity and its inequalities
How is the UK's ethnic diversity distributed?
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Minority ethnic populations are concentrated in the large cities, above all London, while many rural and coastal areas remain far less diverse. -
Uneven development within the UK, and the effects of economic growth
How does good infrastructure attract investment into a region?
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Fast road and rail links, airports, reliable power and quick broadband let firms move goods, staff and information cheaply. -
Uneven development within the UK, and the effects of economic growth
Name three problems a place can face when the industry it depended on closes.
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Unemployment rises, working-age people move away, and derelict land, poor housing and ill health increase. -
How the UK’s population structure has changed since 1900
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
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A model showing how birth rates, death rates and total population change as a country develops, through five recognised stages. -
How the UK’s population structure has changed since 1900
What two changes have caused the UK's population to age?
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People are living longer because of better health care and living standards, and fewer babies are being born.
The 7 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| The UK’s trade, media and cultural links with the world | Exports and imports, the European Union and the United States as the UK's biggest markets, its leading manufactured and service exports, the goods it imports in bulk, why it imports so much food, how its creative industries sell abroad, and trade deficits. | 10 |
| The UK’s geographical diversity and its inequalities | Geographical inequality, regional differences in employment and average income, life expectancy and its link with wealth, educational attainment, ethnicity and where the UK's ethnic diversity is concentrated, and why broadband access varies and why it matters. | 10 |
| Uneven development within the UK, and the effects of economic growth | Uneven development, how location and deindustrialisation hold regions back, infrastructure and investment, enterprise zones and other ways government narrows or widens inequality, what decline and rapid growth do to a place, and Redcar after its steelworks closed in 2015, with the Teesworks redevelopment. | 13 |
| How the UK’s population structure has changed since 1900 | How the UK's population pyramid has changed since 1900, why its death and birth rates fell, the Demographic Transition Model and where the UK sat in 1900 and sits today, an ageing population and its causes, the dependency ratio, pressure on public spending, and government responses. | 11 |
| Immigration into the UK in the twenty-first century | Immigration and emigration, net migration, economic migrants and asylum seekers, workers from Poland, Lithuania and Romania after EU enlargement, study and family as reasons to move, and the economic and social benefits, costs and pressures of immigration. | 10 |
| Urban trends in the UK and their effects | Suburbanisation, counter-urbanisation and re-urbanisation and their causes, who moves into regenerated centres, the loss of countryside and inner-city trade, commuting, village house prices and services, gentrification, and reused brownfield land. | 14 |
| A major UK city: its people, challenges and ways of life | A city's regional, national and global importance, its sphere of influence, national and international migration and how they shape it, ethnic segregation, housing types, leisure and the Central Business District, the challenges of finding homes, brownfield sites, congestion and waste and sustainable responses, and London, with its census population, the Olympic Park, the Elizabeth line and the Ultra Low Emission Zone. | 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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