1.5 Variation in Development

Question 1

Physical Factors that affect development: Climate - Very cold means it is

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• Difficult to build transport links, remote, unlikely to attract industry, too cold to farm, expensive because of heating. Example Mongolia

Question 2

Physical Factors that affect development: Climate, Very dry means that there is

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• not enough rain to grwo crops, famine risk, too remote to attract industry, wind erosion. Example, Ethiopia

Question 3

Physical Factors that affect development: Relief means that it is very steep and

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difficult to build transport links, remote, unlikely to attract industry, poor farming and inability to use machinery. Nepal

Question 4

Physical Factors that affect development: Resources, lack of minerals mean

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no valuable minerals to seel, no fuels such as coal and oil to encourage industry to set up. Example, Sudan

Question 5

Physical Factors that affect development: Environment, unattractive scenery means

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thers is no tourism, Burkina Faso

Question 6

Physical Factors that affect development: Environment, disease means that a country is

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unlikely to develop if many of its people suffer disease and are unable to work properly. Example, Sierra Leone

Question 7

Physical Factors that affect development: Natural Disasters, floods (Bangladesh), droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes - all of these can

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ruin harvests, destroy facotories and home and make transpot unusable. They cost millions of pounds and may cause famine and unemployment

Question 8

Human Factors that affect development: Population Growth, population is rising in developing countries

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9 times faster than in developed countries

Question 9

Human Factors that affect development: In the countryside, farms are becoming

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smaller as there are more people needing the land

Question 10

Human Factors that affect development: In cities authorities cannot provide enough

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houses, jobs and medical care

Question 11

Human Factors that affect development: Industrialisation, there are fewer

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factories and industries in developing countries.

Question 12

Human Factors that affect development: Industrialisation, no industry means there are

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large numbers of unemployed people

Question 13

Human Factors that affect development: Industries in ELDCs are mainly multinationals, so the profit

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doesn’t remain in the country

Question 14

Human Factors that affect development: Trade, developing countries export mainly

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primary products ( crops and minerals) which have low prices

Question 15

Human Factors that affect development: Trade, the money ELDCs receive for their exports doesn’t usually

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cover there import costs

Question 16

Human Factors that affect development: Trade, Trade barriers imposed by other countries also make it difficult for

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developing countries to export the few goods they do produce

Question 17

Population structure in a developed country: The birth and death rates are

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failry low.

Question 18

Population structure in a developed country: people have a life expectancy that is

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fairly high

Question 19

Population structure in a developed country: the number of people of both sexes in groups beyond 60+ is relatively

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large proportion of the rest of the graph.

Question 20

Population structure in a developing country: The pyramid has a wider base which indicates

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high birth rate

Question 21

Population structure in a developing country: The shape narrows for both males and female until it is very narrow in the

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65+ age group, this indicate low life expectancy

Question 22

Factors leading to high birth rate include:

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• Religious belief
• Lack of access to contraceptives
• Lack of education
• Use of children as labour
• Large families to support parents
• Traditional/cultural reasons
• Insurance against high infant mortality rates

Question 23

Factors leading to low birth rate include:

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• People marrying and having children later for economic reasons
• Contraceptives available
• Women choosing a career
• Education more available

Question 24

Factors leading to high death rate include:

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• Widespread poverty
• Poor diets/malnutrition
• Widespread disease due to poor healthcare/hygiene/sanitation
• Lack of clean water supply
• Lack of medical
• poor housing
• natural disasters
• conflicy

Question 25

Factors leading to low death rate include:

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• Economic prosperity
• Good Healthcare
• Supply of food and good diet
• Good housing/sanitation
• Clean water available
• No conflict
• High standards of education

Question 26

Factors affecting infant mortality:

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• high/low healthcare
• attitude to birth control
• Quality of diet
• Standard of housing
• Standard of water supply
• Occurence of natural disasters
• Disease outbreaks
• Lack of services

Question 27

Two other factors that affect population growth

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• High/low rates of immigration/emigration
• The level of economic development in a particular country