Economic activity

What is the quarternary sector?

• Concerned with information and communication and research and development

• Provides services

• Working with natural resources

• Processing things such as food or minerals

What does GDP stand for?

• Gross national income

• Gross domestic primary

• Gross domestic product

• Gross national product

What does deindustrialisation mean?

• An industrial site often located on the edge of of town, previously used for farming or other rural activity.

• The structure of world trade today has its origin in the colonial period when HICs used LICs as sources of raw materials for their factories.

• A country is moving from the primary sector to the secondary sector.

• The decline of a country's traditional manufacturing industry due to exhaustion of raw materials, loss of markets and competition from NEE/MICs

What factor is important for heavy industries in terms of location?

• Near to raw materials

• Being near customers

• Close to universities

• Skilled labour

Which tertiary activity is not mainly located in urban areas?

• Shopping

• Teaching

• Tourism

• Health

Which country has had many sector shifts and is now in the post industrial phase?

• China

• Ethiopia

• UK

• India

What is a negative of the informal sector in Dhaka, Bangladesh?

• Government support

• Lots of safety

• No healthcare or unemployment benefits

• Able to buy food

What did Malthus think?

• That the growing population would run out of enough food

• That technology would prevent food shortages

• That development would reduce the rate of population growth

• That past idea on food were the best ideas

What does a government want?

• Overpopulation

• Optimum population

• Underpopulation

• Pressure on population

What is an energy gap?

• The difference between energy demand and energy supply

• The difference between energy supply and energy supply

• The difference between population and energy supply

• The difference between energy demand and energy use