Chapter 8.2-8.7 Quiz

Economic characteristics relate to?

• Accessibility of food, water and sanitation, housing and infrastructure levels.

• The level of education, employment, health care and gender equality of a country.

• The financial or economic state of a country.

• All of the above.

Which one of the following is not an example of an economic characteristic used to classify low-, middle- and high-income countries?

• Access to sanitation.

• Levels of poverty.

• Range of industries.

• Global trade opportunities.

Which one of the following is a characteristic often associated with low-income countries?

• High levels of poverty.

• A wider range of industries.

• Most of the world's population live in these countries.

• High average incomes.

Which one of the following is a characteristic often associated with high-income countries?

• High levels of poverty.

• Lower average incomes.

• High level of opportunities for global trade.

• High birth rates.

_____________ countries tend to emit greater amounts of carbon dioxide per person into the atmosphere.

• Low- and middle-income countries.

• Low-income countries.

• Middle-income countries.

• High-income countries.

Low birth rates and slow rates of population growth are characteristic of _____________.

• High-income countries.

• Low-income countries.

• Asian countries.

• African countries.

High _____________ rates limit the ability of governments to provide services, such as education, health care and social security, for their citizens. 

Responses

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• population growth

• burden of disease

• mortality and morbidity

• years of life lost

Which one of the following includes the accessibility of food, water and sanitation, adequate housing and infrastructure, and carbon dioxide emissions?

• Economic characteristics.

• Social characteristics.

• Infrastructural characteristics.

• Environmental characteristics.

The purpose of _____________ is to make people, not the country’s income, the focus.

• human development

• HALE

• GNI

• economic development

HDI provides a _____________ accurate picture of how well people are living within particular countries than _____________.

• less; GNI

• less; HALE

• more; GNI

• less; life expectancy