Chapter 9 Quiz/ Key Issue 1

Question 1

What is the second world?

Answer 1

Communist/ USSR allies

Question 2

What is the third world?

Answer 2

Pretty much everyone else

Question 3

Who created HDI and what does it stand for?

Answer 3

Created by the UN to rank countries- stands for Human Development Index

Question 4

What is the country with the highest HDI in the world?

Answer 4

Norway (at .94)

Question 5

What is the country with the lowest HDI?

Answer 5

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (.340)

Question 6

Where are the highest HDIs usually found?

Answer 6

In Western Europe, North America, and Australia

Question 7

How many of the 32 lowest ranking countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Answer 7

30 out of the 32 lowest countries

Question 8

What are the 3 ways in which HDI is measured?

Answer 8

GDP (gross domestic product), literacy rate and amount of education, and life expectancy

Question 9

What is the first world?

Answer 9

Western-style democracies/ US allies

Question 10

What is the GDP?

Answer 10

The total output of a country’s goods and services in one year

Question 11

What do developed countries typically devote their resources to?

Answer 11

Schools, hospitals, welfare services, and infrastructure

Question 12

What does a well-educated and healthy population do to a country’s economy?

Answer 12

The country is more economically productive and has a better standard of living

Question 13

Where are the highest literacy rates?

Answer 13

Western Europe + Taiwan + Singapore

Question 14

Where are the lowest literacy rates?

Answer 14

Sub-Saharan Africa, Afganistan

Question 15

What is the country with the highest life expectancy?

Answer 15

Monaco- 90 years

Question 16

What is the country with the lowest life expectancy?

Answer 16

Chad- 48 years

Question 17

What is the Brandt Line (1980)?

Answer 17

It’s a fictional line separating more developed, wealthy northern countries and poorer, less developed countries in the south. States that rich countries should help the poor though equal trade and investment.

Question 18

What countries have begun to defy the Brandt Line?

Answer 18

Most of South America, China, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, etc

Question 19

What is the primary sector of the economy?

Answer 19

Raw materials (mining, forestry, agriculture, etc). Common in LDCs- labor intensive but not very economically productive.

Question 20

What is the secondary sector of the economy?

Answer 20

Processing and manufacturing (the transformation of raw materials). Developing countries + some MDCs. Ex: China, India, Mexico, etc.

Question 21

What is the tertiary sector of the economy?

Answer 21

Services (sales, stores, banking, restaurants, etc). These jobs require some training but not higher education. MDCs- Ex: US, EU, Japan.

Question 22

What is the quaternary sector of the economy?

Answer 22

Highly educated workforce (Doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers, etc). MDCs/ late stage 3, stages 4 +5

Question 23

What is the quinary sector of the economy?

Answer 23

Top level executives/ CEOs and government officials