Geography- Term 1 Revision Flashcards
What is a HIC?
High Income Country, they are countries with a high income/salary, some examples include: the United States and Canada. (Used to be MEDC)
What is a MIC?
Middle Income country, countries with a not too low or too high income/salary, some examples include: Albania and Algeria.
What is a LIC?
Low Income country, countries with low income/salary, some examples include: Somalia and Burundi. (Used to be LEDC)
Why are good institutions important?
Good Institutions will help a country grow. Since a good institution will have enough money and are developed, it can help the country by creating many services that benefit people.
Why are poor countries so religious?
Poor countries are very religious and rely heavily on their culture.
This is because they believe that the world they live in currently cannot be improved, so instead, they focus on having a better life in the afterlife, which is very reasonable as to why poor countries are religious.
Where are poorer countries usually found and why is it bad?
Poorer countries are found in more tropical regions
This causes them to have less fertile soil, which means agriculture is worse.
More diseases too.
Most poor countries are located in Africa and many landlocked nations tend to be poor.
What are development indicators?
Development Indicators are things that are used to measure how developed a country is.
It is also a series of indicators such as: GDP, HDI, Life Expectancy, Number of children in school, adult literacy, literacy rate, etc.
what is HDI? What does it stand for?
HDI stands for human development index.
Score out of 1 given to a country based on their quality of life, GDP, etc.
HDI is made up of the following: GDP per capita, Life Expectancy, Adult Literacy and Number of children in schools.
What are the 4 development indicators?
GDP per capita
Life Expectancy
Adult literacy
Number of children in school
What is Gross Domestic Product for? (GDP)
We can calculate how much money each country earns
It includes the total value of goods and services produced within a country
GDP per capita (per person)
What is Life Expectancy?
Life expectancy is how long an individual lives on average
If life expectancy in a country is high, then that means the country has very good health care services and good quality of life.
What is Adult literacy rates?
The number of adults who can read and write
This would be shown as a percentage, or as a figure per thousand.
What is Number of children in schools?
The amount of children attending school, this would be shown as a figure per thousand.
What is NIC? What does it stand for?
Newly Industrialised Country, it refers to countries that are developing and are making their way to being one of the developed countries.
What is an institution?
An institution is basically an organisation or a government.
Why is there unequal access to clean water?
People cant afford it.
A war forces government to spend money on army, rather than improving the country.
The country isnt developed and rich enough to make clean water through different processes (such as desalination).
Why is there different types of housing?
People cannot afford to buy houses, so they live in poorly built slums.
On the other hand, some people can afford to live in generally well built houses.
It also depends on the environment.
What is going on in Libya?
A war.
People have to leave their homes.
Since people have to go live in more rural areas, there is a lack of food and water.
Tourists will not visit Libya, which means less money for the country.
This is political factor.
What is going on in Bangladesh?
A flood.
Destroyed many houses and killed many people.
Left people homeless.
Many crops were destroyed.
Many people lost their land.
This is Environmental and Economic factor.
What is happening in Haiti?
An earthquake.
It killed 220k people and destroyed 180k homes.
The earthquake led to lack of food and clean water.
The country is still re-building many things and will take a long time to fix everything.
This is Environmental, Political, Economic and Social factor.
What is happening in Mali?
Lack of clean water.
Many women have to walk miles to collect water.
People can fall into the rivers.
The water has lots of diseases.
This is Economic, Environmental and Social factor.
What is happening in Somalia?
Famine.
Government is corrupt and isnt providing any aid to the people.
Somalia lacked beneficial services which worsened the situation.
This is Political, Environment, Social and Economic factors.
What is happening in Ethiopia?
Coffee farmers are growing lots of coffee.
But, they are paid less.
However, Fair Trade has helped farmers get paid more and improve their lives.
This is Economic and Social factor.
What are first world countries?
Countries in the capitalist bloc. (Example: USA)
What are second world countries?
Countries in communist bloc. (Example: Russia)
What are third world countries?
Countries that are not in capitalist or communist bloc. (Example: Algeria)
