Unit 8 Test

Poor

• Literacy

• Literacy Rate

• Standard of Living

• Impoverished

The ability to read and write

• Literacy

• Literacy Rate

• Standard of Living

• Impoverished

The percentage of people who are over 15 years old who have the ability to read and write

• Literacy

• Literacy Rate

• Standard of Living

• Impoverished

A measure of the material aspects of an economy (includes the level of wealth and material comfort available to people)

• Literacy

• Literacy Rate

• Standard of Living

• Impoverished

Which is the best description of literacy rates?

• The ability to tell stories

• The ability to draw

• The ability to speak multiple languages

• The percentage of people 15 and older who have the ability to read and write

What must happen before high quality and high paying jobs can exist?

• The population must be illiterate

• The population must be literate

• The country must have little resources

• Other countries must train the citizens

What typically happens to the standard of living in a country with low literacy rates?

• The economy is booming

• The jobs are plentiful

• People are wealthy

• There is a low standard of living

Which is the best description of the literacy rate in Canada?

• low, but high employment

• high, but low standard of living

• low, and low standard of living

• high, with high standard of living

how two or more things are connected

• investment

• GDP

• GDP per capita

• human capital

• relationship

the knowledge and skills of the people in a workforce within a country

• investment

• GDP

• GDP per capita

• human capital

• relationship