Sectoral Change
Agriculture
The Ruhr Area
Level of Develpoment
Population
100
True or false?
People working in the tertiary sector provide services but they don't need a higher educational degree.
false
100
Economic, environmental and social are...
...dimensions of sustainability.
100
What is the Ruhr area named after?
The River Ruhr
100
What does GDP stand for?
Gross domestic product
100
Name two reasons why the world population is distributed unequally.
climate, soil, vegetation, location (remote places), different birth rates, ...
200
Name a job which can be assigned to at least two sectors and write down which ones.
example: secretary
200
What is modern agriculture which uses automated systems and robots called?
Agriculture 4.0
200
What type of location factors is important in the Ruhr area nowadays?
soft location factors
200
Which level of development does a country have if 40% of the population work in the primary sector?
LEDC
200
What can an age-and-gender diagram be shaped like? (3 answers required)
pyramid, bell, onion
300
What is the technical term for the fourth sector?
quaternary sector
300
Organic farmers don't use chemical fertilizers. Which method do they use in order to keep fertile soil?
crop rotation
300
What do you call an economy with numerous different industries to rely on?
diversified economy
300
What level of deleopment does the following country have?
NIC
300
Which indicator provides the number of live births per 1,000 in a population per year?
fertility rate
400
What do you have to keep in mind when working with a model? Name the two main aspects.
simplified and generalized
400
Because of the technological progress, employees in agriculture were replaced by machines. What is this process called?
industrialization of agriculture
400
Why was German coal so much more expensive than coal from other countries? Name two reasons.
higher wages, unfavourable geological conditions made it more difficult and therefore more expensive to mine
400
Match LEDC, NIC and MEDC to their German counterparts.
LEDC = Entwicklungsland
NIC = Schwellenland
MEDC = Industrieland
400
Name three aspects which cause the birth rate to decrease.
contraception, wars, new lifestyles are socially accepted (e.g. couples without children)
500
Who invented the sectoral shift model?
Jean Fourastié
500
What was the name of the organic farm we visited?
Lütgeharms Biohof
500
Name two sites in the Ruhr area which show that the Ruhr area has changed a lot.
Landschaftspark Duisburg-North, Technology park PHOENIX in Dortmund, Kreativ.Quartier Lohberg in Dinslaken
500
What indicators are part of the HDI? (3 indicators required)
school attendance in years (education), life expectancy at birth (health/hygiene), GNP/capita (standard of living)
500
Which event influenced the birth and death rate in Germany in the 1920s/1930s?
global economic crisis