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UNIT SIX REVIEW:UNIT SIX REVIEW: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (DEVELOPMENT,
INDUSTRY)
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Industry
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Less Developed
Regions
More Developed
Regions
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Development Strategies
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?Development Indicators
LESS DEVELOPED REGIONS – 100
Question:
People in this region are more likely to live in urban areas than people in
other less developed regions.
Answer:Latin America
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LESS DEVELOPED REGIONS – 200
Question:Within a few years this region is projected to
exceed the United States as the world’s largest economy, although the U.S. economy
would still be much larger on a per capita basis.
Answer:China
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LESS DEVELOPED REGIONS – 300
Question:The only one of the nine major world regions
that enjoys a trade surplus. This region displays a wide gap between it’s most and
least developed countries.
Answer:Middle East
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LESS DEVELOPED REGIONS – 400
Question:The fundamental problem for many countries in this region is a dramatic imbalance between the number of inhabitants and the capacity of the
land to feed the population. It has the least favorable prospect for
development and economic conditions have deteriorated in recent years.
Answer:Sub-Saharan Africa
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LESS DEVELOPED REGIONS – 500
Question:
The world’s leading producer of jute, peanuts, sugarcane, and tea can be found in this
region. The region has the world’s second-highest population and second-lowest per
capita income.
Answer:South Asia
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INDUSTRY – 100
Question:Where did the Industrial Revolution originate?
Answer:Great Britain (Northern England)
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INDUSTRY – 200
Question:What is a bulk-gaining industry, and provide an
example?
Answer:A bulk-gaining industry makes something that
gains volume or weight during production. (cola)
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INDUSTRY – 300
Question:What are the three major site factors for
location of industry?
Answer:Land, labor, and capital
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INDUSTRY – 400
Question:What is a break-of-bulk point, and what
are the two most important break-of-bulk points?
Answer:A break-of-bulk point is a location where
transfer among transportation modes is possible.
airports and seaports
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INDUSTRY – 500
Question:What are the two most important reasons for a
transnational corporation locating factories in other countries?
Answer:To expand their markets, and to reduce their
production costs. (labor)
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DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES – 100
Question:Name one of the two major lending
organizations for less developed countries.
Answer:World Bank
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES – 200
Question:What is the approach where a country spreads
investment as equally as possible across all sectors of its economy, and in all regions.
Answer:Self-sufficiency Approach
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DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES – 300
Question:Describe the International Trade
approach to development.
Answer:A country should identify its distinctive or
unique economic assets. A country can develop economically by concentrating
scarce resources on expansion of its distinctive local industries.
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DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES – 400
Question:What are the two major problems with the Self-
sufficiency approach to development?
Answer:It protects inefficient industries.
It creates a large bureaucracy that encourages abuse and corruption.
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DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES – 500
Question:List two of the three problems with the
International Trade approach to development.
Answer:Uneven resource distribution
Market stagnation
Increased dependence on MDCsReturn
MORE DEVELOPED REGIONS – 100
Question:Was once the world’s major producer, but in the past quarter century Japan, Western
Europe, and less developed countries have eroded this
region’s dominance.
Answer:Anglo-America
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MORE DEVELOPED REGIONS – 200
Question:Because the region’s peripheral areas lag somewhat in development, this region as a
whole has a slightly lower development level than Anglo-America.
Answer:Western Europe
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MORE DEVELOPED REGIONS – 300
Question:The only region where the HDI has declined significantly since the United Nations created
the index in 1990.
Answer:Eastern Europe
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MORE DEVELOPED REGIONS – 400
Question: With one of the highest physiological densities, this region’s development is
especially remarkable because it has an extremely unfavorable ratio of population to
resources.
Answer:Japan
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MORE DEVELOPED REGIONS – 500
Question:Increasingly, this region’s economies are
tied to Japan and other Asian countries. Though the HDIs of it’s two largest countries are comparable to other MDCs, the region’s remaining
people are scattered among sparsely inhabited islands that generally are
less developed.
Answer:The South Pacific Return
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS – 100
Question:Why are infant mortality rates much higher in
LDCs?
Answer:malnutrition, lack of medicine, or poor
medical practices
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DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS – 200
Question:What is the problem with having a high natural
increase rate (NIR)?
Answer:Greater natural increase strains a country’s ability to provide services that can make its
people healthier and more productive.
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DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS – 300
Question:Compare crude birth rates and crude death
rates in MDCs and LDCs.
Answer:Crude birth rates are much higher in LDCs but
crude death rates are about the same.
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DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS – 400Question:
What does this map tell you about the importance of gender and education for development?
Answer:Areas were there is gender balance or more girls in school, tend to be
more developed.
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DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS – 500
Question:Based on the GEM of the darkest red countries, what would one expect of their per capita GDP and why?
Answer:The per capita GDP should be
high because a high GEM indicates more educated and empowered women
which usually contributes to a greater level of economic
development.
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? – 100
Question:The value of the total output of goods and
services produced in a country in a given time period. (normally one year)
Answer:Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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? – 200
Question:Indicator of level of development for each
country, constructed by United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and
life expectancy.
Answer:Human Development Index (HDI)
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? – 300
Question:What are the three world industrial regions?
Answer:North America, Europe, East Asia
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? – 400
Question:Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international
agencies to create conditions encouraging international trade, such as raising taxes, reducing government spending, controlling inflation, selling
publicly owned utilities to private corporations, and charging citizens
more for services.
Answer:Structural Adjustment Programs
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? – 500Question:
According to the international trade model, each country is in one of five stages of development. Name each
of W.W. Rostow’s five stages of development.
Answer:
1. The traditional society
2. The preconditions for takeoff
3. The takeoff
4. The drive to maturity
5. The age of mass consumption
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