Test 1

Question 1

What does developing south and developed north mean?

Answer 1

The developing/developed line is a line that was made by a geographer to describe a separation of development in countries compared to others

Question 2

What does development mean?

Answer 2

Freedom and equal rights,
can afford good amounts of food,
high education levels,
good living conditions,
long lifespan and
overall happiness of a place

Question 3

What are social indicators?

Answer 3

A set of indicators of the people and employments and just development in terms of the people

Question 4

Give an example of social indicators?

Answer 4

Social indicators are for example
Health
Happiness
Education
Good jobs
And patients per doctor

Question 5

What are economic indicators?

Answer 5

A set of how well the businesses and the economy is and just development in terms of the wealth and power of the nation

Question 6

What would be an example of an economic indicator?

Answer 6

GDP (the amount someone makes for the economy)
Wealth
Success
Sell rates
Profits made
Good buissinesses

Question 7

What is used to measure development?

Answer 7

Money/wealth
Life expectancy
Education
Living standards

Question 8

Name the main islands of Japan?

Answer 8

Hokkaido
Honshu (largest)
Shikoku
Kyushu
(+okinawa)

Question 9

Name the main seas near Japan?

Answer 9

The Pacific Ocean
Sea of Japan
Seto inland sea

Question 10

Name the main city’s of Japan

Answer 10

Tokyo , Yokohama
Osaka , Nagoya

Question 11

Name the main mountains in Japan?

Answer 11

Asahi dake
Mount Fuji
Yariga take

Question 12

What is life like in the country side?

Answer 12

Traditional
Children at expected to take care of their parents when they are older
Main jobs would be agricultural like farming

Question 13

What is life like in the city’s?

Answer 13

Crowded
Loyal to family’s and places of work often keeping the same job through their whole life
School and education is very important

Question 14

What problems are the countrysides overcoming?

Answer 14

Children who are meant to take care of their parents when family are leaving for main city’s and therefore the family’s Fonteyn have anyone to take care of them

Question 15

What problems are the city’s overcoming?

Answer 15

Overcrowding
Overworking
Pricey living
Very expensive

Question 16

In the rain and temp graphs what are the different ways of measuring?

Answer 16

The lines in the graph are the temperature and the bars are the rainfall amount

Question 17

What do developing countries graphs look like?

Answer 17

They are middle age heavy and have a higher percentage in 30s to fourties’ due to them living longer

Question 18

What do developing countries graphs looks like like?

Answer 18

The are very bottom heavy often in a pyramidal shape because they are more likely to die earlier due to less health care and they have a very high birthrate and infant death rate

Question 19

Name a few Japanese brands and what they sell or do?

Answer 19

Nintendo (games)
Sony (tech)
Nissan (cars)
Toyota (cars)
Etc..

Question 20

Where are businesses often located and why

Answer 20

In main cities as they are
the closest to customers and resources
And nearer to transpositions like trains and have more accessible roads for the workers and also they are near the main shipping places

Question 21

Name a few things Japan imports?

Answer 21

Iron
Coal
Wheat
Copper ore
From Australia and canada

Question 22

Name a few things Japan exports?

Answer 22

Cars
Steel
Machine tools
Plastics
Electronic goods
To the US, South Korea, and the UK

Question 23

What does Japan do more of in terms of exports and imports?

Answer 23

Exports as Japan gains more money from them in comparison with imports being $240 billion a year and exports being $300 billion a year with exports making $60 billion more than imports

Question 24

What is gdp and gnp like what they stand for?

Answer 24

GDP - gross domestic product
GNP - gross national product