Economic Development
Unit 9: Chapter 12 and 10
Reading Questions and Vocabulary
READING QUESTIONS
Write a minimum of one paragraph explanation/answer to each of the following questions. Your answer should include key human geography terms and fully explain the concept.
DUE DATE / QUESTIONS
04/01
04/02 / Chapter 12(Industry and Services)
Write a one page history of the industrial revolution.
04/03 / Explain Weber’s least cost theory. List two examples of agglomeration.
04/07 / What is deindustrialization? How have deindustrialization and the rise of service industries altered the economic geography of production?
04/07 / What are the vulnerabilities of a service economy?
04/08
04/09 / Where is the American Rust Belt? Why is it called the rust belt and what economic factors led to its current economic conditions?
04/10 / Chapter 10 (Development)
Explain the difference between GNP and GDP. List two shortcomings for each economic measures
04/14 / Describe and explain each stage of Rostow’s Modernization Model. For each stage list a country currently in that stage.
04/15
04/16 / Define and explain dependency ratio. How would dependency ratio effect a countries economic development?
04/15
04/16 / Define and Describe maquiladoras
04/17 / Choose two UN Millennium goals. Explain problem, efforts to eradicate, programs to address issues, etc.