This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Development > General > Economic Development – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Economic Development Quiz 7 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The GDP or GNP divided by the population is known as: A) Population density. B) Infrastructure. C) Literacy rate. D) Per capita income. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Per capita income. 2. Which country ranks highest on the HDI? A) Niger. B) Norway. C) Nigeria. D) Netherlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Norway. 3. Which is the LIC A) Norway. B) Germany. C) Brazil. D) Afghanistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Afghanistan. 4. A local government's decision to ask people not to water their lawn during a drought is an example of understanding ..... A) Globalization. B) Scarcity. C) Interdependence. D) Renewable resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scarcity. 5. The legal economy that is taxed and monitored by government and is included in a governments gross national product. A) Informal economy. B) Non-basic industry. C) Basic industry. D) Formal economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Formal economy. 6. What is a primary industry? A) Employ people to make things. B) Employ people to collect or produce natural resources. C) Provide a service for people. D) Research and technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Employ people to collect or produce natural resources. 7. Many corporate HQs are located in the US for product design but the actual manufacturing takes place overseas. What type of economic activity related to these corporate HQs takes place in the US? A) Secondary. B) Tertiary. C) Quinary. D) Quaternary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quaternary. 8. The following are factors that affect economic development, except ..... A) Depletion of natural resources. B) Improving the quality of human resources. C) Increased Capital Accumulation. D) Technology advances. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Depletion of natural resources. 9. The BRICS countries are A) Dominated by construction industries. B) Moving rapidly from the periphery into the semi-periphery. C) Dominated by service sector jobs. D) Less developed countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moving rapidly from the periphery into the semi-periphery. 10. The spatial shift of manufacturing industries from advanced capitalist countries to developing countries-an ongoing geographic reorganization of production. A) Protectionism. B) New international division of labor. C) Nationalism. D) Tariffs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) New international division of labor. 11. ..... percentage of population dependent on agricultural sector. A) 1/2 %. B) 1/3%. C) 1/8%. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1/3%. 12. Maximum distance people will travel for a good or service (economic reach/hinterland). A) Range. B) Situational factors. C) Threshold. D) Site factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Range. 13. Created by Wallerstein to show that the world is interconnected and that we are all interdependent on each other. Divides us into three tiers of economic prosperity. A) Dependency Theory. B) Neo liberal counterrevolution. C) Structural adjustment loan. D) World Systems theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) World Systems theory. 14. Conversion of sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides to acids that return to Earth as rain, snow, or fog A) Nuclear rain. B) Acid precipitation. C) Acid snow. D) Sulfur precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acid precipitation. 15. Which industry employs the largest number of women in India? A) Tea. B) Textile. C) Jute. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tea. 16. A nation that enjoys a high standard of living is known as a ..... A) Developed Nation. B) Less Developed Country. C) Third World Country. D) Undeveloped Country. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Developed Nation. 17. The Neolithic Revolution refers to the time when early humans- A) Mastered fire. B) Developed agriculture and settled down. C) Migrated from Africa. D) Organized governments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Developed agriculture and settled down. 18. Measures opportunities given to a woman compared to a man within a given country. A) Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). B) Gender-Related Development Index (GDI). C) Gender Equity. D) Human Development Index (HDI). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gender Equity. 19. In which type of economic system are the customs of the past used to decide what and how goods will produced, distributed, and consumed? A) Command. B) Mixed. C) Traditional. D) Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Traditional. 20. Headlands and bays are created because of ..... A) Layers of different rock types. B) It's always been like that. C) Tides. D) Destructive waves. 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