Year 8 Term 1

Question 1

Name some development indicators.

Answer 1

Literacy rate, birth rate, death rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy.

Question 2

What is an LIC ? And an example.

Answer 2

LIC - low income country = Ghana

Question 3

What is a HIC ? And an example.

Answer 3

HIC -High income country = UK

Question 4

State the different regions in Ghana.

Answer 4

Tropical rainforest, hot and dry savannah, coastal savannah.

Question 5

What is the debt cycle ?

Answer 5

Have a lot of loans - the country is short of money for loans and development - it borrows more money - sells crops to other places as usual - the prices have dropped - so it doesn’t earn as much as it hoped

Question 6

What is the development gap ?

Answer 6

The difference in the standard of living between the richest and poorest countries.

Question 7

Why are some countries poorer than others ?

Question 8

What was the akosombo dam project ?

Answer 8

It is a large scale development. It supplies energy to a lot of Ghana, main fresh water source.

Question 9

What are some small- scale developments?

Answer 9

The drilling to a water source and make wells, solar panels, food banks.

Question 10

What is fair trade ?

Answer 10

Fair amount of money for what they sell/trade.

Question 11

What are the positives of fair trade ?

Answer 11

No child/forced labour, no dangerous working conditions, good hours.