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GCSE Geography · key term
How well a place is linked to other places through transport and communication networks.
Used by AQA and Edexcel
Paper 2
How well places are linked, affecting how easily people and goods can travel between them.
Revise: UK Infrastructure and the North–South DivideImprovements can increase capacity, meaning how much traffic a network can handle, and connectivity, meaning how well places are linked. These are different: a larger terminal may handle more passengers, while a new rail connection may make a previously difficult journey easier.
Specification 4.3, 4.6, 5.7 · Paper 2
For transport questions, name a development and explain how the change improves capacity or connectivity. Cover road, rail, ports and airports when the question requires all four.
Distinguish site (the land a city occupies), situation (its position relative to other places) and connectivity (the links between them).
Distinguish site (the country's location and physical characteristics), situation (its position relative to other places) and connectivity (the links between places).
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The links that allow people, goods and information to move between places.
Connectivity describes the links through which people, goods and information move. These are related, but they answer different questions: what is the place itself like, where is it, and how is it connected?
The ability of people and places to connect through transport, communications and digital networks.
Paper 1, Paper 2
How a place is linked to other places through transport, communication and movements of people, goods and money.
Revise: ContextConnectivity describes the links that allow people, goods, money and information to move between India and the wider world.
The links that allow people, goods and information to move between places.