Unit 7 check
Unit 7 check: Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes
10 questions from 8 lessons in Unit 7. Answer each one, and if you miss, follow the link back to where it is taught, then try again. Your score counts first tries.
Question 1 · from 7.1 · Match
Match each technology or natural resource to the part it played as industrialization began in a hypothetical country.
Question 2 · from 7.2 · Rank it
Each hypothetical country lists the share of its workers in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. Rank the countries by their likely level of development.
Most developed first
Give each one a place, 1 for first. Give two the same place if they are equal.
Your ranking: none yet
Question 3 · from 7.3 · Match
A survey of a hypothetical country reports four findings. Match each social measure of development to the finding that reports it.
Question 4 · from 7.4 · Fill the statement
Complete the description of microloans.
Microloans are loans made to people who lack the that banks usually require. Many go to women, who use them to start businesses that sell mainly to .
Setup for question 5
Hypothetical Country W, a former colony, earns most of its export income from bananas sold to fruit firms based in wealthier countries. Wages on the plantations are low, and the firms that ship and sell the bananas keep most of the profit. W's government is building new roads and a port and hopes factories will follow.
Question 5 · from 7.5 · Match
Match each theory to the statement about Country W that uses it.
Question 6 · from 7.6 · Decide and justify
Country Z's farmers buy their tractors from the neighbor. A small factory in Country Z also makes tractors, at a higher price than the imports. Country Z's government now puts a 30% tariff on imported tractors, and importers pass the whole tariff on to buyers. Which group in Country Z is most likely to be hurt by the tariff?
Which reason supports your answer?
Setup for question 7
Hypothetical Harbor City, in core Country H, and hypothetical Port Lin, a port city in Country N with an export-processing zone, report their jobs in two sectors twenty years apart.
| Place | Sector | Year 1 | Year 21 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harbor City | Manufacturing | 160 | 40 |
| Harbor City | Services | 240 | 360 |
| Port Lin | Manufacturing | 20 | 140 |
| Port Lin | Services | 30 | 90 |
Question 7 · from 7.7 · Multiple choice
Which statement best describes what the table shows about the two places?
Setup for question 8
Hypothetical District F is mostly forest. A logging company holds a concession on part of it, locally owned ecotourism lodges run in another part, and ranchers have cleared some land for cattle. The district council compares the three uses with one year of figures.
| Use | Revenue | Local jobs | Share of revenue kept in the district | Forest cleared (hectares) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logging | $6,000,000 | 120 | 15% | 800 |
| Ecotourism lodges | $2,500,000 | 300 | 60% | 5 |
| Cattle ranching | $3,000,000 | 90 | 40% | 400 |
Question 8 · from 7.8 · Multiple choice
District F's council ends the logging concession and lets new locally owned ecotourism lodges open on that land. If the new lodges match the table's ecotourism row in revenue, jobs, share kept and forest cleared, which outcome is expected?
Question 9 · from 7.1 · Put it in order
Put these changes in hypothetical Country D in the order in which each one leads to the next.
Question 10 · from 7.2 · Calculate
A hypothetical drink company mixes 1 ton of syrup with water to make 5 tons of bottled drinks. Water costs the same everywhere. The syrup plant is 300 km from the city where the drinks are sold, and shipping costs $1 per ton per kilometer. For each ton of syrup, how many dollars of shipping does the company save by bottling in the city instead of at the syrup plant?
0 of 10 answered.