Chapter 9 Key Issues 1 And 2

Question 0

What is the HDI?

Answer 0

Human development index- recognizes a country’s level of development through economic, social and demographic factors.

Question 1

What is development?

Answer 1

The process of improving material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.

Question 2

Who was the the HDI created by?

Answer 2

United Nations

Question 3

What is the economic factor in HDI?

Answer 3

GDP per capita

Question 4

What are the social factors of the HDI?

Answer 4

Literacy rate and amount of education

Question 5

What is the demographic factor in HDI?

Answer 5

Life expectancy

Question 6

What are the four economic indicators of development?

Answer 6

Gross domestic product per capita
Types of jobs
Productivity
Consumer goods

Question 7

What is gross domestic product?

Answer 7

Value of total output of goods and services produced in a country, usually in a year.

Question 8

GDP/total population=

Answer 8

Contribution made by the average individual towards generating a country’s wealth.

Question 9

What are primary sector jobs?

Answer 9

Directly extract materials from earth through agriculture.

Question 10

What are secondary sector jobs?

Answer 10

Manufacturers that process, transform, and assemble raw materials into useful products.

Question 11

What are tertiary sector jobs?

Answer 11

Goods and services to people in exchange for payment.

Question 12

What are quaternary sector jobs?

Answer 12

Processing and finding out information

Question 13

What is productivity?

Answer 13

The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it.

Question 14

How is productivity measured?

Answer 14

Value added per capita

Question 15

What is value added per capita?

Answer 15

Gross value of product minus the costs of raw material and energy.

Question 16

What are especially important goods and services related to in MDCs?

Answer 16

Transportation and communication

Question 17

What are two social indicators of development?

Answer 17

Education and literacy

Health and welfare

Question 18

What are two ways that education and literacy tested?

Answer 18

Student teacher ratio

Literacy rate

Question 19

What are the four demographic indicators of development?

Answer 19

Life expectancy
Infant mortality rate
Natural increase rate
Crude birth rate

Question 20

How many major cultural regions are there? How many are more developed?

Answer 20

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Question 21

What are the three other distinctive areas that are not major cultural regions?

Answer 21

Russia
Japan
Oceania

Question 22

What is the north-south split?

Answer 22

Most MDCs are north of 30 degrees north latitude, and most LDCs are south.

Question 23

What is the HDI of North America?

Answer 23

0.95

Question 24

Where is North America near the top?

Answer 24

GDP and literacy rate

Question 25

Where is North America lower than many other regions?

Answer 25

Education | Life expectancy

Question 26

What is North America the leading exporter of?

Answer 26

Food

Question 27

What is the HDI of Europe?

Answer 27

0.93

Question 28

Europe is the worlds ______ and ______ market.

Answer 28

Largest | Richest

Question 29

______ and _______ European countries lag in development.

Answer 29

Southern | Eastern

Question 30

What is Europe dependent on?

Answer 30

International trade

Question 31

What is the HDI of Russia? More or less developed?

Answer 31

0.73 | More

Question 32

What caused a large drop in the HDI of Russia?

Answer 32

The switch from communism and going into a market economy

Question 33

What is the HDI of japan? More or less developed?

Answer 33

0.96 | More

Question 34

How did japan become an industrial power?

Answer 34

Many people willing to work for very low wages

Question 35

Where does japan concentrate it's resources?

Answer 35

Rigorous educational systems | Research and development

Question 36

What is the HDI of Oceania? More or less developed?

Answer 36

0.90 | More

Question 37

What is Australia the leader in?

Answer 37

Mining important materials

Question 38

Where are the economies of Australia and New Zealand increasingly tied to?

Answer 38

Japan and other Asian countries

Question 39

What is the HDI of Latin America? More or less developed?

Answer 39

0.82 | Less

Question 40

Why is overall development hindered in Latin America?

Answer 40

Inequitable income distribution

Question 41

Who is Latin America dependent on trade with?

Answer 41

USA

Question 42

What is the HDI of east Asia? More or less developed?

Answer 42

0.77 | Less

Question 43

What is the economy increasingly driven by in east Asia?

Answer 43

China

Question 44

China is the worlds largest ____ and _____.

Answer 44

Market | Manufacturer

Question 45

Why has china fallen behind in development?

Answer 45

Cival wars and foreign invasions

Question 46

What is the HDI of Southwest Asia and North Africa? More or less developed?

Answer 46

0.74 | Less

Question 47

Southwest Asia and North Africa have a desert which means they must _____ most products.

Answer 47

Import

Question 48

Southwest Asia and North Africa have large resources of what?

Answer 48

Petroleum

Question 49

What beliefs conflict with business practices in MDCs?

Answer 49

Islam

Question 50

What the HDI of Southeast Asia? More or less developed?

Answer 50

0.73 | Less

Question 51

What limits cultivation of most grains in Southeast Asia?

Answer 51

Tropical climate

Question 52

Why has economic growth slowed in Southeast Asia?

Answer 52

Economic reforms

Question 53

What is the HDI of Central Asia? More or less developed?

Answer 53

0.70 | Less

Question 54

What is the HDI of South Asia? More or less developed?

Answer 54

0.61 | Less

Question 55

South Asia has second highest ______ and second lowest _______.

Answer 55

Population | Per capita income

Question 56

What is South Asia dependent on for crops?

Answer 56

Monsoon rains

Question 57

What is the HDI of sub Saharan Africa? More or less developed?

Answer 57

0.51 | Less

Question 58

Sub Saharan Africa has the highest percentage of people in _____

Answer 58

Poverty

Question 59

Sub Saharan Africa suffers from poor _____ and low ______ levels

Answer 59

Health | Education

Question 60

______ states in sub Saharan Africa have difficulty shipping materials.

Answer 60

Landlocked