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APHG DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCES EXAM (2 pages)
Vocab to know
•Carrying Capacity
• PPP
• HDI
• CDR
• Productivity
• Homogeneity
• Development
•Proven reserve
• IMR
• Economic activities (1-4)
•Renewable
• LDC/Ping
• Emerging country/Ging
• RNI
• Literacy/literacy rate
• Fertility rate
• Rural
• MDC/Ped
• GDP
• Spatial distribution
• Monsoon
• GDP/PCI
• Sustainable development
•Non-renewable
• GEM
•Potential reserve
•Greenhouse Effect
• Technology gap
• Value Added
• Urban
PLACES TO HAVE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF (WHERE LOCATED, DEVELOPMENT
LEVEL…)
Anglo America
India
Eastern Europe
Mexico
Middle East
Chile
Western Europe
Germany
Sudan
UK
Saudi Arabia
Italy
Hong Kong
Russia
South Korea
China
Malaysia
Japan
Singapore
Latin America
Development Concepts
1. Where are ‘developed regions’?
2. Name LDC regions
3. Where on a polar map projection would you
find MOSTLY Ped countries?
4. What are the 4 indicators of development?
5. What are the basic economic activities you
would expect to find in an MDC? An LDC?
6. What does the large % of farmers in China’s
workforce tell us about the level of
development there?
7. How do European countries get resources now
that their own countries are depleted?
8. What items would be considered ‘material
wealth’ by people?
9. In Pings, what % of the population would own
things like cell phones, automobiles, etc???
10. List the characteristics of education in Ped
countries.
11. Why correlate the eco/soc/demographic
indicators of development?
12. What are examples of items exported from
Anglo-America?
13. What region has the most homogeneity?
14. Japan’s main asset in regard to development
was _____________
15. Poor people in Latin America tend to live in
what type of area? (Think in geographic
terminology….)
16. Name countries from the text that are involved
in the Sustainability Model of Development.
How successful has this been?
17. What countries have gone the International
Trade development route? To what success?
18. What problems are associated with bankrolling
development?
19. What are problems associated with the
International Trade Model?
20. Summarize the Core-Periphery Model
21. List differences b/t Rostow’s Modernization
Model and Wallerstein’s World Systems
Model.
22. What stage of Development would these
countries be in acc. to Rostow? Japan, USA,
Russia, Mexico, Thailand, Chile, Sudan,
Angola, Norway, Niger
23. What effect did European colonialism have on
Africa?
24. What were the British focused on during the
2nd phase of colonization?
25. Whom did the infrastructures built in Africa
by the Europeans benefit? Why?
26. In order to educate women in LDC’s what
would be the first step?
27. What latitude line on the map is a good
boundary line between Core and Periphery
type countries?
28. List the fallacies of Rostow’s model.
29. What is the range of income for a developing
nation?
30. Why are people in MDC’s more productive?
31. What factors are vital to economic
development?
32. Focus of jobs in the Tertiary sector?
33. Characteristics of the global economic system
(advantages, disadvantages for each region)
34. What jobs would most ppl have at the 5th stage
of Rostow?
35. Typical criteria for determining development
for an emerging country.
36. What factors can influence the growth or
decline of secondary economic activities?
37. Fair Trade: characteristics, locations,
differences from Free Trade
38. Indicators of inequality on gender issues
(regional, global)
39. Benefits of the self-sufficiency model
RESOURCES
40. What is the ratio of population to energy use in
countries like Japan, US, China?
41. Define energy/animate pwr/inanimate pwr
42. What energy source to most ppl use to heat
their home and their shower?
43. What is the problem we deal with regarding
availability of fossil fuels?
44. What are examples of countries that use more
energy than they produce? Which would be
the ‘best’ example?
45. What was the job/goal of OPEC > in the 70’s80’s, now?
46. List causes of desertification?
47. What caused agriculture levels to rise in Pings
during the 60’s?
48. What is the most common energy source used
for heating in the US?
49. Compare nuclear energy usage in the US vs.
Europe.
50. Where are the largest proven reserves of….
Coal, shale oil, natural gas, petroleum