deciding if a country is developed or developing...
100
Someone who moves into a country is called a _______.
What is an immigrant?
100
In a postindustrial society, most people are employed in these industrial fields.
What are tertiary and quaternary?
100
Name two examples of developed countries.
(Answers will vary)
Possible answers include:
Japan Canada United States
Great Britain Germany Sweden
100
During the first stage of population growth, death rate and birth rate are both ______.
What is high?
100
These are the characteristics (name at least three) of a developed nation's infrastructure.
What are good roads, good sewage system, reliable power system, readily available hospitals and medical care, etc.
200
Someone who moves out of a country is called a _______.
What is an emigrant?
200
A company that manufactures furniture is an example of this kind of industry.
What is secondary?
200
A poor country can improve its economy by developing its natural resources and investing in its _______________.
What is infrastructure? (also accept education)
200
In developed countries, the birth rates are __________.
What is low?
200
These are the characteristics (at least three) of a developed country's industry.
What are many manufacturing and service industries, international trade, and modern technology used in agriculture.
300
This is the study of statistical characteristics of the human population.
What is demography?
300
Bridges, roads, canals, railroads, and the like are all part of a country's ___________________.
What is infrastructure?
300
Democracy and a free market economy are two major characteristics of this type of nation.
What is developed?
300
In developing countries, people often move from __________ to ________areas.
What is from rural to urban?
300
Some characteristics of average people living in developed countries are: (name at least three)
What are have access to a phone, have annual income above $25,000, and are literate (also accept educated)?
400
This is the type of economy in which consumers determine what is bought or sold.
What is a free-market economy?
400
This statistic is the total value of a the goods and service in a year produced both inside of the country, and produced in other areas by companies of that country.
What is gross national product (GNP)?
400
Poor countries are often helped by the companies of richer companies setting up factories in those poor countries. The companies get a cheap source of labor, and the local people get jobs. Such a company is called a ______________ company.
What is multinational?
400
The United States is part of one of the four areas of large settlement. It is in ____________________.
What is eastern North America?
400
Approximately this percentage of the world lives in a developing country.
What is 75%.
500
This is the type of economy in which the government decides what is produced, how much it will cost, and how much people should earn producing it.
What is a command economy?
500
This is the measure of the value of goods and services produced by a country completely within that country's borders.
What is gross domestic product (GDP)?
500
The type of industries that see individuals in jobs like business administration and computer technologies is called ________________. This is typical of developed countries.
What is quaternary?
500
This occurs when a nation has a higher death rate than birth rate.
What is negative population growth?
500
Some characteristics of life in a developing country include (list at least three):
What are poor medical care, low literacy rate, telecommunications only in cities, high unemployment rate, and rampant poverty?