Geography - TERM 1 - DEVELOPMENT

Question 1

What is development?

Answer 1

Improving the quality of life, where everyone has the basic necessities to live.

Question 2

IS development a phase or a process?

Answer 2

Development is a process of change and growth.

Question 3

What is sustainability?

Answer 3

Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations.

Question 4

What is the Development Compass Rose (dcr)?

Answer 4

Natural - Environment
Economic- Money and jobs
Social- people and the way they live
Who decides?- power and politics

Question 5

What is LEDC?

Answer 5

Less Economically Developed Country (Developing country)

Question 6

What is a NIC?

Answer 6

Newly Industrialized Country (Emerging country)

Question 7

What is a MEDC?

Answer 7

Most Economically developed Country (Developed country)

Question 8

What is fairness?

Answer 8

The impartial and just treatment or behaviour without favouritism.

Question 9

What is discrimination?

Answer 9

The unjust treatment of different categories of people, because of their identity.

Question 10

In what ways can inequality rise?

Answer 10

Discrimination based on age, disability, race, gender, geographical location, sexual orientation

Question 11

What is per capita?

Answer 11

Per person

Question 12

What is Gross National Income (GNI)?

Answer 12

The amount of money earned by a country.

Question 13

What is life expectancy?

Answer 13

How long a person in a country is expected to live based on current living conditions.

Question 14

What is Human Development Index (HDI)?

Answer 14

Income per capita, life expectancy, and number of years of schooling. Score is 0 to 1.

Question 15

What is Maternal Mortality Rate(MMR)?

Answer 15

Number of mothers dying per 100,000 live births

Question 16

What is literacy rate?

Answer 16

Percentage of population over 15 years who can read and write in any language.

Question 17

What is ecological footprint?

Answer 17

the average amount of land needed per person to sustain a country’s typical consumption patterns.

Question 18

What is Happy Planet Index(HPI)?

Answer 18

country’s well-being, life expectancy, ecological footprint

Question 19

What is corruption?

Answer 19

The abuse of entrusted power for private gain.

Question 20

How can we stop corruption?

Answer 20

Transparency. Being transparent means that ideas and actions are under the scrutiny of the public. Transparency is all about knowing who, why, what, how, and how much.

Question 21

What is the dependency theory?

Answer 21

countries are poor because poor countries offer cheap labour and raw materials, richer countries transform these and sell it at a higher price to the poor countries. this cycle continues and prevents the poor country from developing.

Question 22

What is Fair Trade?

Answer 22

The Fair Trade movement is a global campaign aimed at ensuring fair prices for farmers and producers in less developed countries (LEDCs).

Question 23

What does Fair Trade practice?

Answer 23

decent working conditions, sustainable development and environmentally-friendly agricultural practices.

Question 24

Examples of products that are traded using Fair Trade:

Answer 24

coffee, sugar, tea, cotton, wine, bananas, and handicrafts

Question 25

What are the 10 principles of fair trade?

Answer 25

1)opportunities for disadvantaged products 2)transparency and accountability 3)fair trade practices 4)fair payments 5)neither forced nor child labour 6)no discrimination, gender equality, freedom of association 7)good working conditions 8)capacity building 9)promote fair trade 10)respect for the environment

Question 26

What is Aid?

Answer 26

Development Aid refers to help or support usually in the form of money in the achievement of something, it can also be given in the form of technical expertise or goods (eg:infrastructure)

Question 27

What is emergency aid?

Answer 27

Aid that is given after sudden disasters such as natural disasters, wars and pandemics.

Question 28

What is charitable aid?

Answer 28

This is funded by donations from the public through organisations such as OXFAM/

Question 29

What is conditional aid?

Answer 29

This is when one country donates money or resources to another with conditions attached, often in the donor's favour.

Question 30

What is multilateral aid?

Answer 30

When the governments of many countries give aid to an international organisation such as the World Bank. These international organisations then give the aid to other countries.

Question 31

What is bilateral aid?

Answer 31

This aid is given from one country to another.

Question 32

What is Debt?

Answer 32

Debt is when a sum of money is owed to someone else.

Question 33

What are loans?

Answer 33

A sum of money that is borrowed.

Question 34

What is interest?

Answer 34

Money paid regularly at a particular rate for delaying the repayment of a debt.

Question 35

What is an asset?

Answer 35

An asset is a useful product that produces more money than is borrowed.

Question 36

What is a liability?

Answer 36

A liability is a product that uses more money to be produced than the amount generated after its production.

Question 37

What is good debt?

Answer 37

Funds assets that increase in value, generates income over the long term, increases your future earning power, is tax deductible.

Question 38

What is bad debt?

Answer 38

Buys items that lose value quickly, finances "wants" and not "needs", creates monthly repayments that are unaffordable, credit or a loan from an unregulated institution, is not tax deductible

Question 39

What are the MDGs? (Millenium Development Goals)

Answer 39

A set of eight measurable goals that range from halving extreme poverty and hunger to promoting gender equality and reducing child mortality, which leaders of 189 countries committed to achieving by the target date of 2015.

Question 40

What are the SDGs? (Sustainable Development Goals)

Answer 40

They were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. Several life-changing 'zeros'.

Question 41

What is the difference between the MDGs and the SDGs?

Answer 41

The SDGs take environmental goals into consideration more than the MDGs.

Question 42

What is sustainable development?

Answer 42

Understanding how to meet the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations to meet their own needs.