Development

Question 0

What is the MEDC north and LEDC south?

Answer 0

A line separating the MEDC countries and the LEDC countries with countries like Canada, USA, Europe, Russia and Australia in the north.

Question 1

What factors do the development of a country depend on?

Answer 1

GNP / GNI - (gross national income) 
Doctors per hundred
Literacy rates
Population 
Birth and death rates
Life expectancy
Etc.

Question 2

What is development?

Answer 2

The growth of places

Question 3

What is the standard of living?

Answer 3

People’s level of wealth within a place.

Question 4

What is the GNP per capita?

Answer 4

The measurement of a country’s wealth.

Question 5

What is quality of life?

Answer 5

Quality if life is a person’s satisfaction; your personal satisfaction (or de-satisfaction) with the conditions under where you live.

Question 6

What’s the standard of living in MEDCs and LEDCs?

Answer 6

MEDC - high standard if living

LEDC - low standard of living

Question 7

What is poverty?

Answer 7

The state of being extremely poor. Living on bare minimum. Poor standards and conditions.

Question 8

What slows the development of LEDCs?

Answer 8

Poor education
Inequality - low status of women
Unfair trade
War
Ill health and disease 
Debt

Question 9

What are the advantages of sustainable development?

Answer 9

It doesn’t harm the present or future environment.
It improves ways of life without threatening it.
It’s sensible development.
We can benefit now and in the future.
It’s useful for everyone.
It provides people with life skills so they don’t rely on us any more.
It uses natural resources without wasting them.

Question 10

What are primary goods?

Answer 10

Low value products like timber, minerals, food etc.

Question 11

What are manufactured goods?

Answer 11

High value products such as machinery, cars and electrical products.

Question 12

How does trade affect development?

Answer 12

The trading which countries do can make money so that a country can develop and improve.
This means that countries that export manufactured goods like USA make more money which is a reason why they are so developed.
Some countries trade with each other at certain prices to block other countries.

Question 13

What’s interdependence?

Answer 13

Interdependence is when countries work or rely in each other, e.g. Trading apples for bananas as it is something the country may not be able to have (as there’s no bananas in England).

Question 14

Why do developed countries become richer and developing countries become poorer?

Answer 14

Developed countries export manufactured goods which are expensive and therefore are paid a lot whereas developing countries sell primary goods which have a relatively low value.

Question 15

What issues do some LEDCs have with their exports?

Answer 15

They often rely on 1 source of money/export, e.g. Ghana and cocoa, so if the crops fail, they will have no source of money.

Question 16

What is bilateral aid?

Answer 16

Aid given from a rich government to a poor government.
LEDCs can benefit as it can result in the development of the poor country’s industry, public services, economic growth and political and economic stability however the government may use the money unnecessarily e.g. On defence and military.
Also, there are often conditions or ‘strings’ attached i.e. The poor country must buy products from the MEDC which can result in further debt.

Question 17

What’s multilateral aid?

Answer 17

Rich governments contribute to international organisations e.g. UNICEF but, although there should be no ties, there increasingly are.

Question 18

What’s NGO (aid)?

Answer 18

Standing for non-governmental organisations, it’s voluntary and is money and help from charities and groups, such as Oxfam, which people can benefit from both short term (disasters) and long term (development projects).

Question 19

What does densely populated mean?

Answer 19

And area with lots of people.

e.g. India, New York, Beijing, Monaco etc.

Question 20

What does sparsely populated mean?

Answer 20

An area with very few people (spread out).

e.g. Canada, Alaska, Russia etc.

Question 21

What’s a population pyramid?

Answer 21

A population pyramid shows the gender and age that makes a population. It shows you how many old and young people as well as how many males and females there are.
It helps to understand the birth and death rates or a country.

Question 22

How can you tell an LEDC and MEDC population pyramid apart.

Answer 22

They look different as MEDCs will have more equal results along the years however a LEDC has a small amount at the top of the pyramid (meaning high death rate) and large base (meaning high birth rate) which shows there’s little control.

Question 23

Why are LEDC pyramids called triangle shaped LEDC?

Answer 23

Because a LEDC has a small amount at the top of the pyramid (meaning high death rate) and large base (meaning high birth rate). This is associated with LEDCs as LEDCs have poor healthcare which is why they have a higher death rate and they don’t have contraception available everywhere which is why there’s a high birth rate.

Question 24

What does birth rate mean?

Answer 24

The number of people born in a country each year, per 1000 of the population.

Question 25

What does death rate mean?

Answer 25

The number of people who die in a country per year per 1000 people.

Question 26

What does natural increase mean?

Answer 26

When more people are being born than die each year. The bigger the gap (between birth and death rates) the faster the increase.

Question 27

What happens if, in a year, there are more births than deaths?

Answer 27

The population increases.

Question 28

What happens if, in a year, there are less births than deaths?

Answer 28

The population decreases.

Question 29

What happens if, in a year, there are the same amount of births as deaths?

Answer 29

The population stays the same

Question 30

What are reasons for population change, especially in the UK.

Answer 30

Immigration 
Living conditions
Medicines
Hospitals
Housing
Education 
Women going to university
Sewerage and drinking water
Contraception
Busy parents
Expensive cost for child care

Question 31

What’s grey power?

Answer 31

That older people are settling into villages where no one under 45 will be allowed to live. They must be 50+ and have £100,000 in the bank. There they wouldn’t have to pay for the cost of schooling, street crime or childcare.

Question 32

What are millennium development goals.

Answer 32

Goals that aim to halve world poverty.

Question 33

What does GNP mean?

Answer 33

Gross national product

The total monetary value of all goods and services produced in a country within a year.
It’s a measure of a country’s economic performance.
Economic piece of data involving GDP and any income earned by residents.

Question 34

What’s GDP?

Answer 34

Gross domestic product.

An indicator of the economic health of a country.
The value of the products produced in a country.

Question 35

What are primary jobs?

Answer 35

The retrieval and production of raw materials (e.g. Coal, corn, iron, wood, rubber and fish) a.k.a extractive production.

Jobs include fishing, farming and mining.

Question 36

What are secondary jobs?

Answer 36

The process of assembly and manufacturing. It involves transforming raw materials into components and goods e.g. Oil into plastic. (Assembly involves assembling the product e.g. Builders)

Jobs involve builders, manufacturers, dress makers.

Question 37

What are tertiary jobs?

Answer 37

Jobs which provide a service.
Services supplying consumers and businesses.
Referring to the commercial services supporting the process of production and distribution.

Jobs include advertising, lawyers, insurance, teaching and healthcare.

Question 38

Should we help countries to develop?

Answer 38

Yes:
There needs to be sustainable development
Many people - children - living in poverty
We should eliminate suffering

No:
It can lead to LEDCs relying on us
Can lead us into debt or the money could be spent else where
They may waste it