World geography Chapter 8
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- Given the number of babies born per hour, how many are born in one week?
- 1,680,000 Babies are born per week
- The movement and processing of information indicates what economic activity?
- Quarternary industries
- What industries provide services to primary and secondary industries?
- Tertiary industries (service industries)
- What is the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year both inside and outside the country?
- gross national product
- A dairy taking raw milk and processing it into products such as ice cream and butter is an example of what economic activity?
- Secondary industry
- This includes only those goods and services produced within a country and does not include income earned outside that country.
- gross domestic product
- How do you find GDP per capita?
- by dividing the gross domestic product by the number of people in that country.
- What does the literacy rate of a country often say about the economic development of that country?
- Usually the literacy rate is very low in developing countries and higher in developed countries
- What is defined as the ability to read and write?
- Literacy
- This includes roads, bridges, transportation facilities and government buildings
- Infrastructure
- Approximately what percentage of the worlds people go to bed hungry?
- 75%
- Agriculture, forestry and mining are examples of what economic activity?
- Primary industries
- Developed countries
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United States
Canada
Australia
Japan - What economic activity directly uses natural resources and raw materials are are found near sources of these materials?
- Primary industries
- Should developed countries help developing countries?
- Read and take a stand on this issue. Pg. 81
- Name 8 characteristics of a developing country
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1 people live by subsistence farming
2 few manufacturing & service
industries
3 poverty & unemployment are wide
spread
4. health services are limited
5 schools are crowded
6 telecommunications not found outside
major cities
7 very little exporting of agricultural
products
8 many city dwellers are underemployed - Based on the pie chart can you describe another general factor that may contribute to a country's population growth?
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Production of food
Health care
Cost of living - What is a middle income country?
- countries that are in between developed and developing countries
- Give three examples of middle income countries
- Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Hungary, South Korea, Malaysia
- What will happen to a country's population if it has more immigrants(someone who moves into a country) than emigrants (someone who moves out of the country)?
- The population will increase
- Someone who moves out of a country is called ?
- an emigrant
- Someone who moves into a country is called?
- an immigrant
- What are multinational companies sometimes criticized for?
- harming the natural environment or changing the cultures of developing countries
- What are the two important characteristics that the world's economically developed countries share?
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economic system guided by free enterprise
democracy - What are the three stages of population growth?
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Stage
1) birthrate and deathrate are high
2) birthrate stays high, deathrate
goes down. Family size grows
3) birthrate drops and both death
and birth rate become about
the same - What will happen to a country if the birthrate exceeds its deathrate?
- The country will become over populated
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What are the four categories of
economic activities? -
Primary industries
Secondary industries
Tertiary industries
Quaternary industries - Under what type of economy do consumers determine what is to be bought or sold by buying or not buying certain goods and services?
- Market economy
- At the present world population growth, what do demographers predict the population might reach this century?
- That it will be more than10 billion
- In this type of economy, the government determines wages, the kinds and amounts of goods produced, and the prices of goods
- Command economies
- What economic and political system in which the government owns or controls almost all of the means of production?
- Communism
- What was the population at the end of the last ice age?
- 10 million people
- What was the population of the world 2000 years ago?
- 250 million
- What is the study of the variations and changes in a populations makeup, distribution, movement and relation to its environment?
- Population geography
- What is the branch of geography that concerns itself with how people use Earth's resources, how they earn a living and how products are distributed.
- economic geography
- What two factors contributed to the increase in population over the last 2000 years?
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Modern health practices and
increased food supplies - Why do some places in the world have fewer people living there?
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Harsh climates
Difficult to farm - A countries economic level says _____ about its cultural values and contributions.
- little
- Can you predict what the US population will look like in the year 2020?
- The population will show a larger percentage of people between the ages of 50-70 years old
- Examples of this industry are stores, restaurants, banking, insurance and transportation
- Tertiary industries
- In this economic system resources, industries and businesses are owned by private individuals
- Capitalism
- Name at least six ways of measuring a country's economic development
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literacy
infrastructure
telecommunications
industrialization
gross national product
gros domestic product - What is the study of the human population that emphasizes statistical characteristics or facts and figures?
- Demography
- Under what economic system, prices are determined mostly through competition in which buyers and sellers are free to choose what and when to sell and buy?
- Free enterprise
- What are the four areas in the world of dense human settlement?
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Eastern Europe (China)
South Asia (India and Bangladesh)
Western Europe
North America - What economic activity takes good made in primary industries and changes good into products that are useful to consumers and involves manufacturing?
- Secondary industry
- What is the difference between GDP and GNP?
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GDP is gross domestic product (only those goods produced within a country)
GNP is gross national product (total value of goods produced in and outside a country)