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Question 0

Quality of life

Answer 0

A component of development.
At a basic level it involves such measures as access to water, food, health and education etc.
At higher levels, it may include freedom of speech and religious worship.
Various attempts have been made to quantify it.
Best known is the PQLI - Physical Quality of Life Index - which uses infant mortality, literacy and life expectancy to score countries out of 100.

Question 1

Quadrat

Answer 1

A square frame with a measured grid of wire within it used to lay over surfaces and enable systematic sampling.

Question 2

Quarry

Answer 2

Open-air works where rock is removed for commercial use.

Question 3

Quartz

Answer 3

A mineral commonly found in continental crust.

Question 4

Quaternary

Answer 4

A period of geologic time lasting from 1.6m years ago to the present.

Question 5

Quaternary sector

Answer 5

Those types of economic activity involving high technology and information services which have appeared in the last thirty years and do not fit neatly into the secondary or tertiary sectors.

Question 6

Quota

Answer 6

A limit to production or trade.

May be determined by volume or value.