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OCR specialised concepts A level
OCR specialised concepts A level
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An automatic internal response to change in systems =
causality
feedback
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The OCR A level syllabus is built around specialised concepts but how many?
5
15
20
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Multiple interconnections + linkages between nations, groups of ppl, businesses, individuals, making the world system
globalisation
identity
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Which type of feedback restores a system to balance?
Negative
Positive
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The quality of wholeness (ie the ideas that components are bound together) is called 'holisticity'.
False
True
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A state of stability in a system when a balance exists between inputs and outputs =
equilibrium
feedback
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Pick the incorrect statement on causality
A causal agent dreates change in a dependent variable
In Geography most issues have multiple causes
Isolating individual causal factors is often difficult
In Geography most issues have one cause
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The probability of a range of possible outcomes resulting from specific events eg earthquake, econ shock=
Resilience
Risk
Mitigation
Identity
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Responses to environmental change which aim to modify human behaviour and economic systems permanently
Adaptation
Resilience
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Which type of feedback amplifies change, causing further disequilibrium?
positive
negative
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An action which is take to lessen the impact of a natural hazard on people, economy and society
Mitigation
Resilience
Risk
Sustainability
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The relationship between cause and effect is the definition of:-
adaptation
identity
causality
interdependence
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Critical 'tipping points' in a system which, if exceeded, result in massive and irreversible change.
Sustainability
Adaptation
Thresholds
Equilibrium
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The ability of countries/ communities/households/systems to resist, absorb and recover from effects of shocks/ stresses
Thresholds
Mitigation
Tipping points
Resilience
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Groups of related objects, whether physical or human.
Systems
Thresholds
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The unequal distribution of resources, opportunities, wellbeing etc in society
Interdependence
Inequality
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Mutual dependence of two or more countries with a reciprocal relationship eg bilateral migration flows
Interdependence
Causality
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Change in one system component often has far reaching effects through the system
True
False
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How something is recognised, closely associated with place
Identity
Inequality
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The ways by which meanings are given to the world=
Representation
Interdependence