3.7 Measuring globalisation and its inequalities Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Geography, Unit 4

The 20 questions

1. Which economic measure of development is cited in the spec as contrasting with social and environmental measures?

   • Income per capita
   • Gender Inequality Index
   • Human Development Index
   • Pollution index

2. Which composite measure combines life expectancy, education, and income per capita to assess development?

   • Gini coefficient
   • Consumer Price Index
   • Human Development Index
   • Gender Inequality Index

3. Which statistical measure is used in the spec to measure widening income inequality?

   • Human Development Index
   • Gini coefficient
   • Gender Inequality Index
   • Spearman's rank correlation

4. Which metric measures the extent of income inequality within a country?

   • Purchasing Power Parity
   • Gini coefficient
   • Human Development Index
   • Gross National Income

5. Which dimension of development is measured by the Gender Inequality Index?

   • Environmental quality
   • Infrastructure growth
   • Economic development
   • Social development

6. What term describes the widening difference in development levels between places?

   • Environmental degradation
   • Development gap
   • Cultural diffusion
   • Economic growth

7. Which graph plots cumulative population against cumulative income to show inequality?

   • Lorenz curve
   • Rank size rule
   • Demographic transition model
   • Environmental curve

8. What category of development indicator is Gross Domestic Product per capita?

   • Economic measure
   • Composite measure
   • Environmental measure
   • Social measure

9. Which term describes how globalisation creates rapid progress in some regions while others lag behind?

   • Equal development
   • Global convergence
   • Sustainable development
   • Uneven development

10. What does a high Gender Inequality Index value indicate about a country?

    • Low maternal mortality
    • High gender equality
    • High gender disparity
    • High economic equality

11. What category of development indicator is air pollution monitoring?

    • Environmental measure
    • Social measure
    • Demographic measure
    • Economic measure

12. Which combination of indicators provides the most complete measure of development?

    • Social indicators only
    • Economic indicators only
    • Economic, social, environmental
    • Political indicators only

13. Which of these is a composite index used to measure overall human development?

    • Gross Domestic Product
    • Human Development Index
    • Gini coefficient
    • Ecological footprint

14. How has global development progress varied between regions since 1970?

    • Uniform improvement
    • Differential progress
    • Universal decline
    • Total convergence

15. Which measure is used to show income inequality within a country?

    • Human Development Index
    • Gini coefficient
    • Gross National Income
    • Gender Inequality Index

16. Which index measures gender disparities in health, empowerment, and labour participation?

    • Happy Planet Index
    • Gini coefficient
    • Gender Inequality Index
    • Human Development Index

17. Which measure is used in the spec to capture environmental quality?

    • Pollution indices
    • Gender Inequality Index
    • Human Development Index
    • Income per capita

18. If a country's HDI rises while its per capita income remains flat, what has improved?

    • Resource exploitation
    • Environmental degradation
    • Social development
    • Economic growth

19. Which measure focuses primarily on economic output rather than social wellbeing?

    • Human Development Index
    • Gender Inequality Index
    • Gini coefficient
    • Gross Domestic Product

20. What Gini coefficient score represents perfect income equality?

    • 100
    • 1
    • 0.5
    • 0

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