WorksheetsUnit 7: Industrial & Economic Development
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
According to Rostow's stages of development, which of the following is true?
All countries will eventually pass through all 5 stages.
The colonial legacy will impede a country's economic growth
Foreign investment is a necessary precondition for economic development in the second stage.
Countries might not pass through each of the stages in a linear manner.
Deindustrialization is accounted for in the fifth and final stage.
According to Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory, the modern network of global economic interdependence and competition began
when the European nations began exploring outside of their continent in the 1600s
with the spread of the Industrial Revolution from northern Europe to Asia
in the early 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union and fall of communism
after the United States resumed trade with Great Britain following the American Revolution
with the spread of capitalism at the end of the 19th century
In the core-periphery model of global economic patterns, all of Africa is included in the periphery EXCEPT
Zimbabwe
Morocco
South Africa
Liberia
Egypt
Which of the following is an example of quaternary economic activity?
Entertainment
Research and development
Oil production
Agriculture
Transportation
The Human Development Index is a measure of both economic production and
social indicators
population density
unemployment rates
income per capita
income disparity
In which of the following regions is life expectancy the lowest?
Northern Europe
The Middle East
Southeast Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Central America
All of the following are criticisms of using gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of standard of living for residents of a country EXCEPT
It does not measure the distribution of wealth.
It is possible for GDP to increase and for real incomes in a country to decline under certain conditions
It is measured in a consistent way worldwide.
It does not take the nonmentary economy into account.
It does not measure economic externalities.
All of the following are true of the Industrial Revolution EXCEPT
Technological advancements such as steam power and machine tools helped make the IR possible.
Despite social and economic problems, standards of living and incomes increased for most people in industrializing countries.
The IR marked the transition from manual labor and animals to mechanization.
One of the first industries transformed by the IR was the textile industry.
Industrialization happened nearly simultaneously in most areas of the world in the 18th century.
In Immanuel Wallerstein's world-system theory, core countries in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries had an advantage in commerce and used this to
subjugate and colonize peripheral and peripheral countries
develop equal trading relationships with peripheral countries
share technologies and economic practices with semi peripheral countries
establish trading networks free of trade barriers with other core countries
integrate the peoples of peripheral and semi peripheral countries into their societies.
The gross domestic product per capita is a measure of the total goods and services produced by a country divided by that country's
unemployment rate
gross national product
total population
number of corporations
total number of exports
