Key Words

Question 1

development

Answer 1

> improving people’s lives
means different things for different people
economic, social and political development

Question 2

birth rate

Answer 2

number of live births per 1000 people per year

Question 3

death rate

Answer 3

number of deaths per 1000 people per year

Question 4

life expectancy

Answer 4

average number of years a person can expect to live

Question 5

fertility rate

Answer 5

average number of births per woman

Question 6

maternal mortality

Answer 6

number of mothers per 100,000 who die in childbirth

Question 7

infant mortality

Answer 7

number of children per 1000 live births who die before their first birthday

Question 8

adult literacy

Answer 8

the percentage of the population, aged over 15, who can read and write

Question 9

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

Answer 9

the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year (in US$)

Question 10

GDP per capita

Answer 10

dividing GDP by the population

Question 11

PPP (Purchasing Power Parity)

Answer 11

GDP is now measured in PPP which shows what it will buy in each country

Question 12

HDI (Human Development Index)

Answer 12

measure country’s life expectancy, health care (social) and GDP per capita (economical)

Question 13

globalisation

Answer 13

describes the growth and spread of companies, ideas and culture across the world

Question 14

TNC (Trans-National Companies)

Answer 14

firms which produce goods and/or services in more than two countries, they grow as part of the process of globalisation

Question 15

connectedness

Answer 15

expansion of travel, networks and communication technologies that easily connect manufacturers with overseas buyers

Question 16

trade

Answer 16

selling, buying or swapping goods or services

Question 17

flows

Answer 17

movement of manufactured goods, raw materials and money

Question 18

culture

Answer 18

the ideas, customs and social behaviour of particular people or a society

Question 19

global shift

Answer 19

> where investment in industry and services has steadily been redirected from MEDCs to selected LEDCs
TNCs have been the main drivers of global shift

Question 20

outsourcing

Answer 20

occurs when a project is given to a company overseas that was formally done at home

Question 21

negative multipier effect

Answer 21

> people lose their jobs so don’t spend so much on local services
services close and other people lose their jobs
the cycle continues

Question 22

global institutions

Answer 22

aim to ensure that the economies of countries are stable

Question 23

salary

Answer 23

amount of money per year

Question 24

wage

Answer 24

amount of money per hour

Question 25

primary sector

Answer 25

getting raw materials from the Earth

Question 26

secondary sector

Answer 26

process materials and manufactures items

Question 27

tertiary sector

Answer 27

> service sector

>provides a service

Question 28

quaternary sector

Answer 28

> research sector

>creative or knowledge-based industries

Question 29

acid rain

Answer 29

> rainwater containing sulphuric acid, nitric acid and compounds of ammonia
these pollutants have been pumped into the atmosphere by manufacturing industry and vehicle emissions