Lesson 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 does an economic indicator measure?

    • Health and schooling
    • Money and wealth
    • Life expectancy
    • Rainfall and climate

  2. What does a social indicator measure?

    • Total economic output
    • People's living standards
    • Export revenue
    • Average national debt

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

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

  4. Which HDI component measures health?

    • GDP per capita
    • Literacy rate
    • Life expectancy
    • Years of schooling

  5. Which HDI component measures education?

    • Annual income
    • Gross Domestic Product
    • Life expectancy
    • Years of schooling

  6. What does a choropleth map use to display values across places?

    • Contour lines
    • Flow arrows
    • Colour shading
    • Dot density

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

    • Economic collapse
    • Zero inequality
    • Low development
    • Very high development

  8. On a choropleth map of HDI, what does a darker shade typically represent?

    • A higher value
    • A lower value
    • More population
    • Higher altitude

  9. Two countries have equal wealth but different life expectancies. What differs?

    • GDP
    • Income
    • Area size
    • Health

  10. Which of the following is classed as a social indicator of development?

    • Years of schooling
    • GDP per person
    • Inflation rate
    • Average wage

  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 score of 0.39. Which category does this represent?

    • Very high development
    • Low development
    • Advanced nation
    • Developed economy

  15. On an HDI map, Norway is dark and Chad is pale. What does this mean?

    • Chad is larger
    • Norway ranks higher
    • They are equal
    • Chad ranks higher

  16. On an HDI choropleth map, what does a mid-grey shade suggest?

    • Maximum development
    • Minimum development
    • A middle band
    • Missing data

  17. Which development indicator combines wealth, health, and education into one score?

    • Human Development Index
    • Literacy rate
    • Life expectancy
    • Gross Domestic Product

  18. Why can GDP per person hide internal inequality within a country?

    • Data is always outdated
    • Populations never change
    • Currencies fluctuate daily
    • Averages mask extremes

  19. How can a country raise its HDI without significantly increasing income?

    • Lowering income taxes
    • Extracting more oil
    • Improving healthcare and schooling
    • Building more factories

  20. Why might two countries with identical GDP per person have different HDI scores?

    • Different time zones
    • Different physical sizes
    • Different climate zones
    • Different health and education

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