WorksheetsGeography 9th grade
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
From the following, which apply to informal jobs? (Choose all that apply)
Stable salary
Negotiable prices
Self-employement
Contract with legal conditions
Often transnational
Because of (a) , the informal sector usually has little money to invest
From the following, which is not a disadvantage of the transnational industries
Few skilled workers are employed.
Profits go overseas
Labor is usually poorly paid
Usually employs women and childred
Check all that correspond. Which are the advantages of the high-tech industry parks
Cheap labor
Tax breaks (Discounts)
Cheap raw materials
Exchange of information
Within the outputs of a country, we can find profits/losses and (a)
Which of the following is not a human factor in the industrial production
Power and Energy
Transport
Government policies
Capital
Which of this is not a physical factor of industries
Site and Land
Natural routes
Market environment
Raw materials
Select all that are correct. Which of the following apply to the formal sector of employement
Long but stable hours
Fixed prices
Small scale
Usually men
For a sustainable development in developing countries, industries must take into account:
Use local resources
Industry has to be developed full scale
Import raw materials
Use very developed technology
Which of the following are examples of arable farming
Corn
Tomatoes and goats
wheat
chickens
Which are the characteristics of extensive farming? (Check all that correspond)
Smaller farms (Normally)
High concentration of workers
Normally fewer technology
High inputs in the space
Choose all outputs from farming
Pollution
Produce
Seeds
Fertilisers
In very poor countries or areas, (a) farming is a common economic activity
All of the following are human factors of agriculture except
Government controls
demand
floods
pesticides
Agriculture can have some problems. A physical cause of agricultural problems are:
Deforestation of nearby
Shortage of rainfalls
Pollution because of the use of pesticides in crops
Over-cultivating degrades the soil
All of the following are important factors that affect Tourism in a place except
Transportation
Amenities or leisure facilities
Weather
Jobs for the unemployed
Check all disadvantages associated with Tourism
Pollution and congestion
Damage to landscapes or monuments
Traditional culture lost
Seasonal unemployement
Which reason motivated tourism to grow
Good weather
Scenery
Longer vacations
Monuments
(a) Is a type of tourism that involve eco-related activities
To create sustainable tourism, the following measurements can be taken except
Hire skilled foreign workers
Use renewable energy
Use local products and resources
Educate guests about the environment and local culture
In an Ecotourstic vacation, the following activity wouldn't be part of the plan
Hiking
Kayaking
Monument watching
Beach cleaning
Check all the characteristics that correspond to non-renewable fuels
Takes millions of years to form
Are only used in MEDCS
Are finite
Petroleum has several disadvantages. An advantage of that source of energy is that
Has a low cost of production
Prices of petroleum are stable
Has little to no impact in environment
Has diverse uses
Check all non-renewable sources of energy
Oil
Geothermal energy
Gas
Nuclear energy
Wind
What disadvantage only applies for renewable energy
contaminates more than non renewable fossiles
It's not available in every place
Produce less energy
Requires technology that's not available in every country
Which of the following is not a commercial farming
Grain farming
Fruit farming
livestock ranching
slash and burn farming (burn down what is left from previous crops to have ashes as fertilizers
The process of growing crops in tropical areas for sale in more developed countries is what type of farming?
Slash-and-burn
platation agriculture
intensive subsistence agriculture
commercial agriculture
The overgrazing (Placing animals to eat grass very often) of pasture areas in arid climates has caused which problem?
Global warming
mass starvation
erosion or desertification
soil loss
Which of the following is not true regarding peripheral countries and tourism?
"host" countries tend not to own or control the tourism infrastructure
funds for hotel construction are often diverted from local needs
the tourist industry contributes substantially to the "host" country's development
tourists consume large quantities of scarce commodities such as food and water
Which of the following may NOT be categorized as a primary activity?
refining petroleum into gasoline
Agriculture
fishing
raising animals
A farmer who produces only enough food for the immediate family is practicing
shifting cultivation
intensive agriculture
vegetative planting
subsistence farming
Which of the following are both forms of extensive subsistence farming?
hunting and gathering and pastoral nomadism
dairy farming
grain farming and livestock ranching
Which of the following does NOT characterize modern industrial agriculture?
specialized crops
signing agreements with buyer-processors
prices met by individual needs of farmers
participation by farmers in less developed countries
In which of the following countries is the largest percentage of workers employed in the primary sector?
the United States
China
Nigeria
Mexico
The primary cause of global warming in recent years has been the
burning of fossil fuels
formation of acid rain
changes in heat emissions from the sun
melting of polar icecaps
Which of the following sectors of the economy grows the fastest as a country industrializes?
primary sector
tertiary sector
quaternary sector
secondary sector
. In contrast to primary industry, secondary industry is less dependent on
labor supplies
friction of distance
agglomeration
location of natural resources
