Theme 3 key words

Question 1

Work?

Answer 1

Any occupation, paid/unpaid, formal or informal

Question 2

Employment?

Answer 2

Regular trade or profession, in return for money

Question 3

Unemployment?

Answer 3

Lack of paid work

Question 4

Underemployment?

Answer 4

Insufficient paid work for an individual during the day or week

Question 5

Employment opportunities?

Answer 5

Jobs that people, often unemployed, can apply for

Question 6

Employment structure?

Answer 6

The number of people working in the primary, secondary or tertiary sectors

Question 7

Labour intensive?

Answer 7

Industries that require a lot of people to work and run them effectively

Question 8

Primary sector?

Answer 8

Industry involved in the extraction/exploitation of natural resources (e.g. mining, fishing)

Question 9

Public sector?

Answer 9

Jobs provided and regulated by the government (paid for through taxes)

Question 10

Private sector?

Answer 10

Jobs provided by companies not the government

Question 11

Secondary sector?

Answer 11

Industry involved in the manufacture of goods and raw materials

Question 12

Tertiary sector?

Answer 12

Industry involved in the sale of goods or provision of services (e.g. shopping, transport)

Question 13

Quaternary sector?

Answer 13

Industry involved in the provision of information

Question 14

Formal work?

Answer 14

Properly regulated work, part of wage taken as tax by government

Question 15

Informal work?

Answer 15

Work done by people that is not recorded or regulated by the government. It is not controlled or taxed.

Question 16

High tech industry?

Answer 16

The use of advanced technology in manufacturing

Question 17

Knowledge intensive services?

Answer 17

The concepts that in many MEDCs employment is based on individuals knowledge

Question 18

Knowledge economy?

Answer 18

Industries providing information services, such as completing or ICT

Question 19

Economic activity?

Answer 19

Any human activity involving capital

Question 20

Mechanism?

Answer 20

The transfer of work from people to machines and technology

Question 21

Multinational company?

Answer 21

Large company with branches or production units in several countries

Question 22

Inward investment?

Answer 22

Investment into a country/region from a MNC

Question 23

Leap frogging?

Answer 23

When a country skips a stage in technology to go onto the next

Question 24

Science parks?

Answer 24

A group of industrial building sued for research and design or high tech processes

Question 25

Research and devolpment?

Answer 25

Investigative activities that a business chooses to conduct with the intention of developing new products or procedures, or to improve those existing

Question 26

Footloose industries?

Answer 26

Industries that are not tied to raw material

Question 27

Manufacturing?

Answer 27

The production of goods in the secondary sector usually in factories

Question 28

De-industrialisation?

Answer 28

When a country moves from manufacturing industries m (secondary) to move service industries

Question 29

Acid rain?

Answer 29

Unnaturally acidic rain caused by a high concentration of pollutants like sulphur dioxide that mix with water to make acid

Question 30

Climate change?

Answer 30

A change in global or regional climate patterns

Question 31

Greenhouse effect?

Answer 31

A process in which gases, such as carbon dioxide trap heat energy in the atmosphere leading to warming