Key Words and Meanings - Year 9 Geography

• Tourism and development

  Tourist	a person who is travelling or visiting a place for pleasure.
  Attraction	A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or an exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.
  Sustainable Tourism	Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities”
  VFR	VFR travel is a form of travel involving a visit whereby either (or both) the purpose of the trip or the type of accommodation involves visiting friends and / or relatives"
  Mass Tourism	Mass tourism is a form of tourism that involves tens of thousands of people going to the same resort often at the same time of year.

• Geography of Fashion

  Global Fashion	Global fashion is when different parts of the clothing are being made in different countries because it is cheap. This encourages countries to interact.
  Globalisation	is the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange.
  Transnational Company (TNC)	is a huge company that does business in several countries.  E.g Nike or Coca Cola. They have their headquarters in HIC and use LIC’s for resources and manufacturing.
  Rana Plaza	The 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse (also referred to as the 2013 Savar building collapse or the Rana Plaza collapse)
  GDP	Gross Domestic Product—the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.

• Natural Hazards

  The circular movement of the mantle caused by heat from the earths core.	The circular movement of the mantle caused by heat from the earths core.
  Plate boundary	the location at which two tectonic plates meet
  Tectonic plate	An oceanic or continental mass of crust which moves on the surface of the earth
  Crust	Very thin outer rocky shell of the earth comprised of thicker and less dense continental (land) and thinner and more dense oceanic crust
  Richter scale	A numerical scale which shows the magnitude of an earthquake based on vibrations from the earth

• Fieldwork - Using a geographical model to investigate tourism in Weston Super Mare

  Primary Data	data that you have personally collected eg. EQS or Beach profile
  Secondary Data	data that has been collected from someone else eg. house prices or wind direction.
  Data presentation	how you display your data in a visual format e.g. Line graphs for a beach profile
  Data Analysis	how you break down the different data sets and compare them to identify trends or findings relevant to your aim. It can be done numerically, for example looking at the median rate of long shore drift.
  Evaluation	you critically appraise the usefulness and accuracy of your methods and the certainty of your findings in your investigation.
  Conclusion	Do you accept or reject your initial hypothesis based on the evidence you have collected?

• Development in South East Asia

  colonialism	the policy of acquiring other countries to rule as colonies
  infrastructure	– communication links and utilities, e.g. roads, electricity
  life expectancy	– the average age a person is likely to reach
  literacy rate	the percentage of people aged 15 and over who can read and write
  Human Development Index (HDI)	a way of measuring a country’s development, scoring from 0.000 to 1

• The changing geography of the middle east

  Conflict	Conflict geography studies the distribution of conflicting interests over space. ... This aspect of geography considers the causes of conflict, the ways in which conflict may manifest itself, the impacts of conflict, and how conflict may be resolved.
  Climate Change	Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth's local, regional and global climates.
  Geopolitics	Geopolitics is a study of interest which focuses on factors such as; geography, economics, and demography of policy and foreign policy of a state, country or region.
  Middle East	The Middle East is a geopolitical term that commonly refers to the region spanning the Levant, Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, Egypt, Iran and Iraq.
  Hydropolitics	The politics of allocating and managing water resources, particularly between countries.