This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Economics > Development > General > Economic Development – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Economic Development Quiz 5 (30 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) Per capita income. D) Literacy rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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) Brazil. B) Germany. C) Norway. 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) Interdependence. B) Globalization. C) Renewable resources. D) Scarcity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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) Tertiary. B) Quinary. C) Quaternary. D) Secondary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quaternary. 8. The following are factors that affect economic development, except ..... A) Depletion of natural resources. B) Increased Capital Accumulation. C) Technology advances. D) Improving the quality of human resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Depletion of natural resources. 9. The BRICS countries are A) Dominated by construction industries. B) Less developed countries. C) Moving rapidly from the periphery into the semi-periphery. D) Dominated by service sector jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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) Nationalism. B) Tariffs. C) Protectionism. D) New international division of labor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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) Site factors. D) Threshold. 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) World Systems theory. B) Structural adjustment loan. C) Dependency Theory. D) Neo liberal counterrevolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) World Systems theory. 14. Conversion of sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides to acids that return to Earth as rain, snow, or fog A) Sulfur precipitation. B) Acid precipitation. C) Nuclear rain. D) Acid snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acid precipitation. 15. Which industry employs the largest number of women in India? A) Jute. B) Textile. C) Tea. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tea. 16. A nation that enjoys a high standard of living is known as a ..... A) Developed Nation. B) Less Developed Country. C) Undeveloped Country. D) Third World 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-Related Development Index (GDI). B) Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). C) Human Development Index (HDI). D) Gender Equity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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) Destructive waves. B) Layers of different rock types. C) It's always been like that. D) Tides. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Layers of different rock types. 21. What industry would be most affected by hybrid cars? A) Oil industry. B) Natural gas industry. C) Water industry. D) Solar industry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oil industry. 22. The first five year plan was launched for a period from A) 1959-1954. B) 1951-1956. C) 1955-1960. D) 1948-1953. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1951-1956. 23. Location of manufacturing establishments is determined by the minimization three critical expenses:labor, transportation, and agglomeration. A) Wallerstein's least cost theory. B) Rostow's stages of economic development. C) Weber's least cost theory. D) Weber's core periphery model. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weber's least cost theory. 24. Christaller's Central Place Theory can be used most appropriately to determine the A) Location of language and cultural hearths. B) Spread of political phenomenon across an area. C) Location for business with regard to potential customers. D) Location for a manufacturing plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Location for business with regard to potential customers. 25. A location where goods are transferred from one type of carrier to another (e.g., from barge to railroad). A) Capital. B) Bulk-Gaining. C) Break-of-Bulk. D) Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Break-of-Bulk. 26. How might developing primary industries be used as a strategy to promote development? A) Using natural resources to increase exports. B) By encouraging the import of primary goods. C) By decreasing tariff revenue. D) By decreasing the reliance on Fair Trade schemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Using natural resources to increase exports. 27. What is import tax called A) Trade. B) Debt. C) Interest. D) Tariffs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tariffs. 28. Why do most restaurants clump together in shopping malls and on busy street corners? A) More Capital. B) Ease of Access. C) Agglomeration. D) Laws of Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agglomeration. 29. Which resource has produced the most energy over the last 200 years? A) Uranium. B) Oil. C) Gas. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coal. 30. Developed by the U.N. in 1990 as a tool for ranking countries based on their level of economic development. A) Human Development Index. B) Country Development Index. C) Economic Development Index. D) Human Growth Index. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human Development Index. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesDevelopment QuizzesEconomics QuizzesEconomic Development Quiz 1Economic Development Quiz 2Economic Development Quiz 3Economic Development Quiz 4Economic Development Quiz 6Economic Development Quiz 7Economic Development Quiz 8Economic Development Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books