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49 Cards in this Set
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Given the number of babies born per hour, how many are born in one week?
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1,680,000 Babies are born per week
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The movement and processing of information indicates what economic activity?
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Quarternary industries
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What industries provide services to primary and secondary industries?
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Tertiary industries (service industries)
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What is the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year both inside and outside the country?
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gross national product
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A dairy taking raw milk and processing it into products such as ice cream and butter is an example of what economic activity?
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Secondary industry
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This includes only those goods and services produced within a country and does not include income earned outside that country.
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gross domestic product
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How do you find GDP per capita?
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by dividing the gross domestic product by the number of people in that country.
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What does the literacy rate of a country often say about the economic development of that country?
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Usually the literacy rate is very low in developing countries and higher in developed countries
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What is defined as the ability to read and write?
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Literacy
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This includes roads, bridges, transportation facilities and government buildings
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Infrastructure
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Approximately what percentage of the worlds people go to bed hungry?
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75%
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Agriculture, forestry and mining are examples of what economic activity?
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Primary industries
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Developed countries
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United States
Canada Australia Japan |
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What economic activity directly uses natural resources and raw materials are are found near sources of these materials?
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Primary industries
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Should developed countries help developing countries?
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Read and take a stand on this issue. Pg. 81
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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 |
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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 |
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What is a middle income country?
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countries that are in between developed and developing countries
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Give three examples of middle income countries
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Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Hungary, South Korea, Malaysia
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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)?
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The population will increase
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Someone who moves out of a country is called ?
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an emigrant
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Someone who moves into a country is called?
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an immigrant
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What are multinational companies sometimes criticized for?
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harming the natural environment or changing the cultures of developing countries
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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 |
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Give three examples of middle income countries
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Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Hungary, South Korea, Malaysia
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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 |
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What will happen to a country if the birthrate exceeds its deathrate?
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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 |
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Under what type of economy do consumers determine what is to be bought or sold by buying or not buying certain goods and services?
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Market economy
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At the present world population growth, what do demographers predict the population might reach this century?
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That it will be more than10 billion
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In this type of economy, the government determines wages, the kinds and amounts of goods produced, and the prices of goods
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Command economies
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What economic and political system in which the government owns or controls almost all of the means of production?
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Communism
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What was the population at the end of the last ice age?
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10 million people
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What was the population of the world 2000 years ago?
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1 billion
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What is the study of the variations and changes in a populations makeup, distribution, movement and relation to its environment?
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Population geography
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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.
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economic geography
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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 |
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Why do some places in the world have fewer people living there?
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Harsh climates
Difficult to farm |
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What was the population of the world 2000 years ago?
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250 million
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A countries economic level says _____ about its cultural values and contributions.
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little
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Can you predict what the US population will look like in the year 2020?
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The population will show a larger percentage of people between the ages of 50-70 years old
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Examples of this industry are stores, restaurants, banking, insurance and transportation
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Tertiary industries
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In this economic system resources, industries and businesses are owned by private individuals
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Capitalism
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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 |
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What is the study of the human population that emphasizes statistical characteristics or facts and figures?
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Demography
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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?
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Free enterprise
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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 |
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What economic activity takes good made in primary industries and changes good into products that are useful to consumers and involves manufacturing?
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Secondary industry
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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) |