EDUQAS A Level Geography: Specialised Concepts

Question 1

The principle of, or relationship between, cause and effect.

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Causality

Question 2

An individual's sense of attachment to the country, region, city or village in which they live.

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Identity

Question 3

The reliance of one group/organisation on another.

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Interdependence

Question 4

A set of interrelated components, which are connected together.

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System

Question 5

The probability of a hazard or economic change causing harmful consequences.

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Risk

Question 6

Extreme differences between groups of people.

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Inequality

Question 7

Meeting the needs of today's population, without compromising the needs of future generations.

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Sustainability

Question 8

The ability of a system, or population, to maintain certain functions after a disturbance.

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Resilience

Question 9

A looped systems, where the system responds to perturbation.

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Feedback

Question 10

The point at which a small change or disturbance outside a system can lead to rapid change.

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Threshold

Question 11

The susceptibility of a community to a hazard or to the impacts of a hazard or economic change.

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Vulnerability

Question 12

The spread of information, ideas, culture and businesses around the world, across borders.

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Globalisation

Question 13

Changing infrastructure and/or practises to limit the risk posed by something.

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Adaptation

Question 14

An action taken to reduce a future impact of something, making it less bad.

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Mitigation

Question 15

A small group standing for a larger group.

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Representation

Question 16

Where balance is reached (possibly within a system).

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Equilibrium

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