Human Geography (Chapter 10 - Development) Test

The UN's Human Development Index (HDI) takes into account three factors. These are:

• a decent standard of living, access to knowledge, and a long and healthy life.

• crude birth rates, crude death rates, and the percentage of women in the workforce.

• life expectancy, percentage of population under 15, and the availability of clean drinking water.

• doctor/patient ratio, infant mortality rates, and good governance.

• absence of corruption, developed infrastructure, and national debt as a ratio of GDP.

Which two regions are considered developed based on their HDI scores?

• North America and Southeast Asia

• North America and Latin America

• North America and Europe

• Central Asia and South Asia

• Europe and North Africa

Latin America is considered to be a developing region, yet Chile and Argentina have HDI rankings > 0.80. How can both be true?

• Chile and Argentina are barely ranked as developed.

• Latin America as a whole compared to other defined regions is considered developing. Each region may have a few countries within them that have very different HDI rankings.

• The data was collected twenty years ago and is no longer valid.

• It gives evidence that the ranking system is not very consistent.

• The HDI data is flawed and biased.

The United Nations measures the average income in countries through a complex index called

• gross domestic product.

• gross national income per capita at purchasing power parity.

• gross national income at HDI.

• annual gross national product at average income.

• development index at purchasing power parity.

The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country, is known as the

• gross domestic product.

• purchasing power parity.

• gross national income.

• human development index.

• gross empowerment product.

In which of the following sectors of jobs does manufacturing fall?

• Primary

• Secondary

• Tertiary

• Quaternary

• Special

The value of a product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it is known as

• purchasing power.

• value added.

• impact factor.

• productivity.

• profit index quotient.

The measure of the value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year is known as

• productivity.

• value added.

• gross domestic product.

• gross national income.

• purchasing power parity.

Resource extraction jobs, such as mining, fishing, and forestry, fall into which economic sector?

• Primary

• Secondary

• Tertiary

• Quaternary

• Special

Jim is a coal miner. Mary is a lawyer. Jim has a job in the ______ sector, while Mary works in the ______ sector.

• primary; secondary

• primary; tertiary

• secondary; tertiary

• secondary; primary

• tertiary; primary