Key Terms

Question 1

Perception

Answer 1

The way you see or understand something

Question 2

Preconception

Answer 2

The way you see or understand something before you know it

Question 3

Misconception

Answer 3

A wrong way of seeing or understanding something

Question 4

Bias

Answer 4

To support something or someone

Question 5

Development

Answer 5

The process of increasing people’s well-being, rights and opportunities

Question 6

Development indicator

Answer 6

An aspect of society to measure human development

Question 7

Millennium Development Goals

Answer 7

8 goals agreed on by all the world’s countries and monitored by the UN in 2000 to meet the needs of poor countries by 2015

Question 8

Colonialism

Answer 8

When a country takes control of other lands outside of its borders by turning those other lands into a colony

Question 9

Scramble of Africa

Answer 9

Rapid invasion of African territory by European powers between 1881 and 1914

Question 10

Neo-colonialism

Answer 10

When a powerful nation exerts political or economic control over a less powerful nation or region without direct government control

Question 11

Ethnic tensions

Answer 11

Feelings or acts of prejudice by one ethnic group and another

Question 12

Power struggle

Answer 12

The fight for power between two or more individuals

Question 13

Development Indicators

Answer 13

GDP~Life expectancy~Family Size~Health Care~Rights of Women~Freedom of Press~Governance~Industry~Education