Unit 7L Economic Geography

The number of births per 1,000 of woman ages 15 to 19.

Fuel that derives from plant material and animal waste.

A nuclear power plant that creates its own fuel from plutonium.

The quantity of something that consumers are willing and able to buy.

Country identified as those that have a medium to high standard of living with well-established governments and education systems. They have a stable economic growth, with a high GDP per capita and are often described as 'industrialized'.

Country identified as those that have not achieved significant industrial growth relative to increase in population. Their GDP remains relatively low and as a result, their standard of living is low. Their structures such as governments and education systems are often unstable.

A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology.

A trade that emphasizes small businesses, worker-owned, fair wages, permits unions, and comply with safety and environmental precautions.

The percentage of woman holding full-time jobs outside the home.

Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country.

An energy source formed from the residue of plants and animals buried millions of years ago.

The pumping of water at high pressure to break apart rocks in order to release natural energy.

A measure of the extent of each's country gender inequality.

Energy from steam or hot water produced from hot or underground rocks.

The value of the total input of goods and services produced in a country in a given time period (usually one year)

The value of the output of goods and services produced in a country in a year, including money that leaves and enters the country.

An indicator of the level of development for each country, constructed by the United Nations, that is based on income, literacy, education, and life expectancy.

Power generated from moving water.

Modification of an HDI to account for inequality within a country.

The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society.

A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live.

The percentage of a country's people who can read and write.

The number of women who die in childbirth per 100,000 births.

Provision of small loans and other financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries.

A set of eight goals set by 191 United Nations member countries that have the goal of halving world poverty by the year 2015.

A source of energy that has a finite supply capable of being exhausted.

The amount of energy in deposits not yet identified but thought to exist.

The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry.

The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make it.

The amount of a resource remaining in discovered deposits.

Monetary measurement which take account of what money actually buys in each country

The portion of the economy concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of information and capital.

Materials from a nuclear reaction that emit radiation.

Resources that have a theoretically unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans.

The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials.

Economic policies imposed on less developed countries by international agencies to create conditions encouraging international trade, such as raising taxes, reducing government spending, controlling inflation, selling publicly owned utilities to private corporations, and charging citizens more for services.

The quantity of something that producers have available for sale.

The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.

Development of core regions at the expense of those on the periphery.

The gross value of the product minus the costs of raw materials and energy.

economic activities that surround and support large-scale industries such as shipping and food service