Geography Knowlege

Question 1

Development: What is development

Answer 1

All about how wealth and the quality of life of people living on our planet varies from place to place

Question 2

Levels Of Development: What is a HIC?

Answer 2

High Income Country: these are rich countries that have lots of industry and service jobs such as the UK in Japan

Question 3

Levels of Development: what is a LIC?

Answer 3

Low Income County: these are poor countries that have mainly primary job such as farming and mining for example countries like Bangladesh and Mali

Question 4

Levels of Development: what is a NEE?

Answer 4

Newly Emerging Economies: These countries are those that have developed fastest over the latter part of the 20th century such as China and India these are also middle income countries

Question 5

Uneven development:

Answer 5

The North-South Divide is a division that exists between the wealthy developed countries known as “the north” and the poor developed countries or “the south”. This was based on a report from Brandt based on development in 1971. However countries have developed in the last 50 years making this outdated.

Question 6

Uneven Development: North Rich or Poor

Answer 6

The north is considered the rich side more wealthier than the south

Question 7

Uneven Development: South Rich or Poor

Answer 7

The south is considered the more Pris side where as the north is wealthier

Question 8

Economic Development Indicators: What is GNI?

Answer 8

Gross National Income: the value of a country’s goods and services, divided by the number of people living in the country

Question 9

Economic Development Indicators: What is GDP?

Answer 9

Gross Domestic Product: the total value of goods and services produced in a country is a given period

Question 10

Economic Development Indicators: what is GNP?

Answer 10

Gross National Product: the total value of goods and services produced by countries economy during specific period of time usually a year

Question 11

Economic Development Indicators: Unemployment

Answer 11

Unemployment often results from the inability of employees to move to find new jobs in the industry because of a change in the cost of living or new license requirements

Question 12

Economic Development Indicators: Economic structure

Answer 12

There are five economic sectors grouped together by type of economic activity; primary, secondary, quaternary and quinary

Question 13

Economic Development Indicators: Economic Growth

Answer 13

This is defined as the increase in the real value of goods and services produced as measured by the annual percentage change in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Question 14

Human Development Indicators: Birth Rate

Answer 14

This is a good indicator of social progress and the most developed countries tend to have low birth rates however birth rates can be changed by government policies

Question 15

Human Development Indicators: Death rates

Answer 15

Crude death rate indicate the number of deaths occurring during the year by 1000 population estimated at mid year

Question 16

Human Development Indicators: IMR

Answer 16

Infant Mortality Rates: The infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths for every 1000 live births.

Question 17

Human Development Indicators: People per Doctor

Answer 17

People per doctor is how many people there are for every doctor in a country or place again this indicates how much money is available in a country for the training and recruitment of doctors

Question 18

Human Development Indicators: Literacy Rate

Answer 18

The percentage of the population of a given age group that can read and write

Question 19

Human Development Indicators: Access to safe water (What is it)

Answer 19

Global access to safe water safe water is water is safe for humans to drink it is water which is not contaminated with disease or chemicals.

Question 20

Human Development Indicators: Life expectancy

Answer 20

The term life expectancy refers to the average number of years a person is expected to live. This is based on several factors such as year of both current age, sex and demographic

Question 21

Measuring Development

Answer 21

Measuring development is not straightforward the United Nations now use a composite indicator called HDI (Human Development Index) which is made up of a number of important measures: GNP per capita number of years, schooling and life expectancy

Question 22

Development Gap: Why has it grown?

Answer 22

It has grown because of three factors Historical/Political, Physical, and Social

Question 23

Development Gap: Historical/Political

Answer 23

• European colonist in the 19th century
• Corruption & political instability
  -Trade barriers
• During war, money was spent on weapons rather than development

Question 24

Development Gap: Physical

Answer 24

• Climate
• Natural Resources
• Location e.g. landlocked
  -Natural Hazards e.g. earthquakes

Question 25

Development Gap: Social

Answer 25

• access to services
• Low skilled workers
  -Diseases e.g. Malaria
  -discrimination/inequality
  -lack of education

Question 26

What does ‘ standards of living’ mean?

Answer 26

Standard of living means the amount of money and comfort people have

Question 27

Economic Development Indicators

Answer 27

-Measure a countries wealth and how it makes money
-Looks at the type of industries and employment in the country

Question 28

Human development indicators

Answer 28

-Focus on what services the population (people) have access to
-This includes housing, education, healthcare