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Lives Around the World — Revision notes
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Brain dump
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Key terms
- Statistics
- Numbers that describe a place, such as income and life expectancy
- Interviews
- When people describe their lives in their own words
- Dollar Street
- A website by Gapminder that photographs family homes and lines them up by income
- Physical geography
- The natural world, such as climate, mountains, rivers and forests
- Climate
- The average weather in a place over a long time, usually 30 years or more
- Human geography
- The study of people, such as wealth, housing, jobs and laws
- GDP per capita
- The value of goods and services a country produces in a year, divided by its population
- Average
- A share per person that can hide how unevenly something is spread
- Inequality
- The uneven sharing of resources, opportunities and living conditions
- Arid and semi-arid
- Dry land, where rain is scarce and hard to rely on
- Informal settlement
- An area where people build their own homes, often without planning or basic services
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What this lesson covers
How well do you know each one? Be honest: red means go back over it.
- Describe how geographers use statistics, interviews and photographs to learn about lives
- Identify the differences between physical and human geography
- Compare the lives of families in Pakistan, Tanzania and Peru
- Explain what GDP per capita measures and why it is only an average
- Describe how Kenya's climate changes from place to place
- Give examples of inequality within Kenya, Brazil and the UK
Test yourself
Cover the answer, say it out loud, then check the full quiz on the lesson page.
- Which of these is NOT part of physical geography?
- Roughly what share of Kenya is arid or semi-arid?
- Kenya's average income is lower than the UK's. So which of these is true?
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Spelling challenge
Read the definition, then type the correct spelling of the term. Uses the same terms as above.
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