Key Issues 9.2: Distribution of Health and Wealth

The Anglo-American region is the world's leading provider of all but which of the following?

• food
• petroleum
• financial and management services
• sports and recreation

The more developed region that displays the highest level of cultural homogeneity is:

• Latin America.
• Western Europe.
• the South Pacific.
• Anglo-America.

Western Europe is distinguished from Anglo-America by its:

• relative lack of raw materials.
• greater cultural homogeneity.
• self-sufficiency in raw materials.
• ability to feed itself without importing food.

Under communism, Eastern Europe was characterized by all but which of the following?

• investment in heavy industries such as iron and steel
• specialization in production of consumer-oriented products
• governments that made the key decisions concerning the national economy
• favorable balances between population and resources

The major asset of the Eastern European region is:

• production of consumer goods.
• diversified industrial manufacturing.
• abundant reserves of many raw materials.
• cultural and religious diversity. 

Japan's principal asset for promoting development was:

• a favorable ratio of population to resources.
• an abundant supply of highly-skilled labor.
• high physiological density.
• easy access to established European markets.

The Middle East shows promise of becoming more developed primarily because of what characteristic?

• abundant petroleum reserves
• desert climate
• Islamic religious principles
• democratic reforms

Petroleum reserves in the Middle East are:

• dispersed evenly throughout the region.
• concentrated primarily along the Mediterranean Sea.
• clustered primarily in the Persian Gulf states.
• primarily in Saudi Arabia.

The less developed region with the highest percentage of people living in urban areas is:

• the Middle East.
• Southeast Asia.
• Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Latin America.

Development prospects are limited in Sub-Saharan African because of all but which of the following?

• colonial legacy
• weak and corrupt leadership
• lack of monsoon rains
• overworked agricultural land and declining output