WorksheetsInternationalDevelopment21
Total questions: 80
Worksheet time: 41mins
Which of the following is the average age a person lives to in a place?
GNI per capita
adult literacy rate
life expectancy
LEDC
What is the infant mortality rate?
babies under 1 year old who die per 1000
children under 5 years old who die per 100
babies under 1 year old who die per 100
children under 5 years old who die per 1000
What is the GNI per capita?
people who can read and write
the jobs people do
average income per person
children per woman
The jobs people do in a place divided into primary, secondary and tertiary is the...?
GNI per capita
imports and exports
unemployment rate
employment structure
An MEDC or HIC will have most people in which sector of employment?
primary
secondary
tertiary
Which will be the largest sector of employment in an LEDC or LIC?
primary
secondary
tertiary
Which is NOT a good indicator of development?
population growth
birth rate
death rate
population density
Which three areas are included in the HDI?
births, deaths and fertility
health, wealth and education
health, education and nutrition
jobs, wealth and trade
Which country is the odd one out in terms of level of development?
USA
UK
Haiti
Japan
What happens to secondary industry over time?
it increases then decreases
it stays the same
it decreases more and more quickly
it increases and carries on increasing
Which country would you expect to have the longest life expectancy?
Haiti
Mexico
Japan
How fast the population in a place is increasing or decreasing is the...
population density
population distribution
population growth
What does calorie consumption per day tell us?
whether people have a healthy diet
whether people have enough to eat
how well educated people are
how much electricity people use
Which type of countries have the highest energy consumption?
LEDCs or LICs
NICs or MICs
MEDCs or HICs
they all have the same consumption
What is life expectancy?
The average age a person can expect to live to
The average number of calories eaten per day
The number of babies that die under 1 year old per 1000 live births
Number of British Thermal Units (BTU) used per year
What does GDP stand for?
Gross Double Product
Gross Domestic Product
Grand Domestic Product
Great Domestic Product
What does HDI stand for?
Human Development Index
House Department Information
Human Developing Information
Horse Development Index
Select three more ways we can measure the development of a country
Number of doctors
How good they are at football
Amount of people living in towns and cities (urban population)
How big the country is
How many adults can read and write (literacy rate)
Development in geography means...
Making a country better
Making a country worse
Making a country bigger
The number of years you are expected to live is known as...
Life Accuracy
Life duration scale
Life expectancy
Life determined
The percentage (%) of adults that can read and write is known as...
Adult Competency Rate
Intelligence Rate
Education Rate
Adult Literacy Rate
The percentage (%) of people aged 16+ without a job is known as...
Unemployable Rate
Unemployment Rate
Working Expectancy
Employment Expectancy Rate
The number of births per 1,000 people per year, is known as...
Baby Rate
Fertility Rate
Birth Expectancy
Birth Rate
The number of deaths per 1,000 people per year, is known as...
Death Rate
Death Expectancy
Mortality Rate
Dying Rate
The combined measurement of life expectancy, literacy rate and per capita income is know as...
Social Development Rate (SDR)
Human Social Indicator (HSI)
Social Development Indicator (SDI)
Human Development Indicator (HDI)
Literacy rates are given as .....
The total number of people who can read and write within a population
The number of people who can read and write per 1000 of the population
The % of people who can read and write within a population.
The total number of people who can read and write when they finish school
A HDI score of 0.9 demonstrates ...
A very high level of development.
A high level of development.
A low level of development.
A very low level of development.
What is the limitation of birth rate as a development measure?
Some births in LICs are not registered due to being so rural
Babies are born too quickly
Not all births happen in a hospital
In HICs they always have births in a hospital
Which of the following is NOT an indicator of standard of living?
Literacy rate
Population age distribution
Infant mortality
Cultural heritage
Which of the following is an indicator of economic development?
High illiteracy
Unskilled labor force
Gross domestic product per capita
Under developed tertiary sectors
The greater the country’s level of economic development, the —
higher the quality of life
higher the agricultural labor force
lower the cost of living
lower the urban population
There are a number of indicators concerning the economic development of a nation. Which of the following is NOT considered to be such an indicator?
distribution of urban/rural population
religious freedoms
educational opportunities
environmental controls
Most people in developing nations earn their living by —
farming.
hunting and fishing.
working in manufacturing
industries.
working in service industries.
Which of the following is most likely a characteristic of a developing country?
Low unemployment rate
High GDP per capita
High birth rate
High literacy rate
Which factor is most responsible for increasing life expectancy in many less industrialized nations?
Declining birth rates
Availability of health insurance
Access to primary education
Improved health care programs
Countries with high infant mortality rates and low life expectancy are in which level of economic development?
More Developed
Newly Industrialized
Less Developed
Which level of economic development are countries where people are beginning to move from rural to urban areas in search of factory jobs?
More Developed
Newly Industrialized
Less Developed
Definition of GLOBALISATION
Exploitation of local resources by the multinationals
Greater mobility of people
Development aid from states and world organisations
Increase of trade around the world among different countries
Aid can be given in a number of forms such as....
Financial assistance
Sending skilled workers over e.g. Doctors
Medical equipment
Food
Voluntary aid is generally given by......
Governments
Charities
Businesses
Some of the positives of aid are....
Saves lives
Develops important services such as healthcare
Corruption
Teaches self-sufficiency
Used to buy arms and military equipment
Which of the following is an examples of short-term aid?
Training nurses and midwives
Improvements in infrastructure
Building a school
Providing emergency water and food
Providing piped water and sanitation is an example of long term aid
True
False
What is aid?
when an organisation gives resources to another country
when a country gives resources to another country
when an individual gives resources to another country
All of the above
What help do you think Nepal required after this earthquake?
Emergency assistance
Long term assistance
Aid can take many forms. Which of the following is NOT a form of aid?
Money
Skills
Knowledge
Debt
Which of the following statements apply to short term aid?
Helps solve immediate problems
Brings urgent relief to people who are in desperate situations
Has a less immediate goal
Seeks to improve the overall level of development of the country
Which of the following statements are advantages of aid?
Helps rebuild livelihoods and housing after a disaster
Can help increase food production
Can develop clean water and sanitation
Corruption may lead to politicians using aid for their own means
Pick the goods we are likely to import from a LEDC
Bananas
Cocoa Beans
Coffee Beans
Cars
Which term refers to the type of buying and selling that takes place within a country?
free trade
international trade
productivity
domestic trade
Which of the following is a feature of a developed country?
high tariffs
lower standards of living
a strong economy
lower productivity
Why do countries trade goods and services?
because they want to reduce interdependence
because they do not have all the goods and resources they need
because they want to help other countries grow
because they want to protect domestic industries from competition
The countries of Haiti and Ethiopia have less productive economies and lower standards of living. They are considered to be _____________?
developed countries
developing countries
backward countries
export countries
Geographic location can give a country or region advantages in trade.
True
False
___________ ____________ involves exports and imports.
comparative advantage
Free trade
Productivity
International trade
____________ ____________ have less productive economies and lower standards of living.
Developing countries
trade barrier
cause and effect
Comparative advantage
What is meant by development in geography?
Improving the overall quality of life in a country
Improving the overall wealth of a country
Increasing the population of a country
Increasing the size of a country
What is trade?
The selling of goods to another country
The buying of goods from another country
The buying and selling of goods between countries
Imports are...
All the products and goods that are made in a country
All the products and goods that are sold between countries
All the products and goods bought in by a country
All the products and goods used to improve quality of life
Exports are...
All the products are goods grown in another country
All the products and goods sold by a country
All the products and goods that are thrown out
All the products and goods that expire
Countries promote trade to grow their economies and improve the lives of its citizens.
True
False
Trade with other nations, involving imports and exports.
domestic trade
international trade
Exports are
Goods and services produced within a country and sold outside its borders.
Goods and services sold in one country but produced in another.
None of these
Both of these
The dollar, euro, yen, pound, and rupee are all forms of
language
religion
currency
food
Which of the following are characteristics of a developed country?
weak economy
strong economy
high standard of living
industrialized
Which of the following are characteristics of a developing country?
low standard of living
less productive economy/traditional economy
highly industrialized
lower life expectancy
The total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year
GDP
HDI
CIA
FBI
The collective wealth of a country, or its means of producing wealth
resources
currency
outsourcing
emerging economy
The selling of products between countries without tariffs or other trade barriers
globalization
outsourcing
free trade
fair trade
Two of the following sentences are correct, choose the correct ones
Employment structures change from time to time
Poor countries have few workers in primary industries
Rich countries have few workers in primary industries
A country that their citizens mainly work in farming and mining the job structure is based in..
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Countries with a higher percentage of primary jobs depend on
Raw materials
Machinery
Farming and raw materials
Technology
Countries with a higher percentage of tertiary or quaternary jobs... (choose more than one)
buy primary goods from other countries
don't need primary goods
are researching to improve primary goods
don't have enough space to produce primary goods
The improvement of the secondary jobs in a country can lead to
tertiary jobs
go back to primary jobs
quaternary jobs
none
A country that nowadays have a higher percentage of tertiary jobs never had a higher percentage of primary jobs
True
False
Which is the reason why some countries cannot move to next stage of development? According to the job structure
The loans they have to acquire to try to improve in every stage
Prices are not that high for primary goods so they are not able to sell at a good price
The other countries take over the market and sell primary goods
There is no market for primary goods
When measuring the standard of living of a nation, which of the following would NOT be considered an important factor?
birth rate and infant mortality
literacy rate
population age distribution
size of the fishing industry
