Resource Frontier (AQA A-Level Geography): Quizzes
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What is a resource frontier?
What is a resource frontier?
Area where resources are exploited for 1st time
Who proposed the core-periphery model and in what year?
Who proposed the core-periphery model and in what year?
John Friedman in 1963
What characterises the resource frontier zone in Friedman's model?
What characterises the resource frontier zone in Friedman's model?
Rapid economic growth, poor social development
Which stage comes immediately after 'construction of infrastructure' in the resource development cycle?
Which stage comes immediately after 'construction of infrastructure' in the resource development cycle?
Operation and extraction
What does cost-benefit analysis consider?
What does cost-benefit analysis consider?
Economic, social & environmental aspects
When do resource extraction operations close?
When do resource extraction operations close?
When remaining resources become uneconomical
When did North Sea oil development transform north-east Scotland?
When did North Sea oil development transform north-east Scotland?
From the 1980s onwards
Who proposed peak oil theory and when?
Who proposed peak oil theory and when?
M.K. Hubbert in 1956
At what point does the resource peak occur?
At what point does the resource peak occur?
When approximately 50% has been extracted
What are unconventional oil and gas reserves?
What are unconventional oil and gas reserves?
Low permeability reserves needing enhanced tech