FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

DEVELOPMENT CH. 9 EXAM QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

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-Guarantee passing score -18 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country

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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Question 2: The gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy

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Value Added Question 3: Compares the level of development of women with that of both sexes; based off of social (income and literacy) and demographic (life expectancy) characteristics of each gender

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Gender-Related Development Index Question 4: Alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker-owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards

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Fair Trade

Question 5: The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it; concerning the price of labor from either machinery or humans/animals

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Productivity Question 6: A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology

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Development Question 7: Eight international development goals that all members of the United Nations have agreed to achieve by 2015

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Millennium Development Goals Question 8: A country that has professed relatively far along a continuum of development; mostly found above the equator with the exception of Oceania

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More Developed Country (MDC) Question 9: The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials

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Secondary Sector Question 10: The value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country in a given time period (normally 1 year)

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Question 11: The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people, in exchange for payment; ie. doctors, realtors, bankers

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Tertiary Sector

Question 12: The percentage of a country's people who can read and write

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Literacy Rate Question 13: Economic policies imposed on LDCs by international agencies to create conditions encouraging international trade, without regard for the LDC; ie. McDonald's or Wal-Mart buying rights to the Pyramids of Giza and exploiting the people to repay national debt

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Structural Adjustment Program Question 14: Indicator of level of development fro each country, constructed by the United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy

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Human Development Index (HDI) Question 15: Compares the capability of women and men to participate in economic and political decision making

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Gender Equality Measure (GEM) Question 16: A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development; most regions under the equator, with the exception of Oceania

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Less Developed Country (LDC) Question 17: A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in may countries in order to maximize profit

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Transnational Corporation Question 18: The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry; typical of LDCs

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Primary Sector