Lesson Y8-U03-L02

Y8-U03-L02 Measuring Development: Indicators and the HDI Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 9

20 questions

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The 20 questions

  1. What is an economic indicator?

    • A number about people's health or schooling
    • A number about money, such as average income per person
    • A measure of how far a country is from the equator
    • A count of the languages spoken in a country

  2. What is a social indicator?

    • A number about money, such as GDP per person in a given year
    • A number about people's lives, such as health or schooling
    • A count of the kilometres of road in a country and its major cities
    • A measure of the total rainfall each year across the whole country

  3. Is life expectancy an economic or a social indicator?

    • Physical indicator
    • Social indicator
    • Political indicator
    • Economic indicator

  4. Which measure in the HDI represents health?

    • Years of schooling
    • Number of cars per 100 people
    • Life expectancy
    • Income per person

  5. Which measure in the HDI represents education?

    • Number of doctors per 1,000 people
    • Life expectancy
    • Income per person
    • Years of schooling

  6. What is a choropleth map?

    • A map showing the height of land with contour lines and spot heights
    • A map showing the weather over one week, with symbols for rain and wind
    • A map that uses colour shading to show how a value changes between places
    • A map showing only roads and railways, with their junctions marked clearly

  7. What does an HDI score close to 1 mean?

    • Average development with no real change
    • The country has no schools at all
    • Very low development overall
    • Very high development overall

  8. On a choropleth map of HDI, what does a darker shade usually mean?

    • A higher value
    • A lower value
    • A missing value
    • A smaller area of land

  9. Two countries earn the same income per person. One has a life expectancy of 80 and the other of 60. Which conclusion is most accurate?

    • They are equally developed because income is the only measure that counts
    • The second is more developed because it has less wealth to manage each year
    • The first is less developed because its people live longer than the others
    • They have equal wealth, but health differs, so quality of life is not the same

  10. Which of these is a social indicator?

    • Years of schooling
    • GDP per person
    • Total value of goods made each year
    • Income per person

  11. How many times bigger is US$82,000 than US$2,500?

    • About 33 times
    • About 3 times
    • About 82 times
    • About 330 times

  12. How many times bigger is US$82,000 than US$700?

    • About 17 times
    • About 117 times
    • About 1,170 times
    • About 11.7 times

  13. Brazil's GDP per person is US$9,000 and India's is US$3,000. How many times bigger is Brazil's?

    • 9 times
    • 1.5 times
    • 6 times
    • 3 times

  14. A country has an HDI of 0.39. Which description fits best?

    • Very high development overall
    • Low development overall
    • High development in health but none in wealth
    • Average development with no real gap

  15. On a choropleth map, Norway is dark and Chad is pale. Which statement is true?

    • The map cannot show HDI for any country
    • Norway has a higher HDI band than Chad
    • Both countries have exactly the same HDI band
    • Chad has a higher HDI band than Norway

  16. A country on an HDI choropleth is shaded mid-grey, between dark and pale. What does this suggest?

    • The highest HDI band on the map, shaded darkest of all the colours
    • The lowest HDI band on the map, shaded palest of all the colours
    • A middle HDI band, between the highest and lowest shades
    • No HDI data is available for that country, so it is left unshaded

  17. Compare HDI and GDP per person. Which measures development more fairly, and why?

    • HDI, because it adds health and education so one number does not hide them
    • Neither, because development cannot be measured at all
    • GDP per person, because it counts health and schooling directly
    • GDP per person, because money is the only thing that matters

  18. Why can an average such as GDP per person hide inequality inside a country?

    • Averages always include every person equally, so no group is left out
    • Averages are calculated only in the capital city, so the rest is not counted
    • GDP per person only counts the poorest people, so the richest are never included
    • A high average can result from a few very rich people while many others remain poor

  19. Explain how a country could raise its HDI without raising its income much.

    • Moving the capital city changes the HDI score, because the new site is counted differently
    • Cutting schooling makes the HDI rise faster, because children then join work sooner
    • Better health care and schooling raise life expectancy and years of schooling, lifting the HDI
    • Raising the price of goods lifts the HDI directly, since prices show how rich a nation is

  20. Explain why two countries can have the same GDP per person but different HDI scores.

    • The HDI ignores all wealth, so GDP and HDI are unrelated and cannot be compared at all
    • GDP and HDI always measure exactly the same thing, so they must give the same score
    • Two countries with the same GDP must have the same life expectancy, since wealth decides it
    • They may organise health and schooling differently, changing life expectancy and education

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