Grade 9 Geography Unit 2 – Global Connections Jeopardy 2 Global Connections HungerMore Demographics AfghanistanTrade
A country which has undergone recent, rapid industrialization. Examples include Hong Kong, South Korea, Brazil and Mexico.
What is a Newly Industrializing Country?
Term coined by the Canadian Marshall McLuhan to describe the impact of new communication technologies on social and cultural life
What is Global Village?
The ability to read, write, speak and understand words.
What is Literacy?
Coffee and sugar…and, in India, cut flowers
What are Cash Crops?
It was $1.00 / day for many years, but in 2008, the World Bank announced it is now $1.25 / day
What is the International Poverty Line?
It is not having adequate the essential vitamins and minerals. It is called “hidden hunger”
What is Micronutrient Deficiency?
Almost half of the world’s undernourished people live in these two countries.
What are China and India?
It is lack of food energy OR not getting enough of the right kinds of food.
What is Malnutrition?
1.2 billion people
What is the estimated number of obese people worldwide?
Diet inadequate in food energy
What is Undernourished?
Freedom of speech, freedom from persecution, job opportunities and other features that attract a person to a country.
What is Pull Factor?
Less than 15 and greater than 65
What is Dependency Load?
Average lifespan of a population
What is Life Expectancy?
To leave your country of origin to live permanently in another country.
What is emigrate?
The number of deaths per 1000 people.
What is Death Rate?
99%.
What is the percentage of Afghanistan’s population who are Muslim?
The fundamentalist Islamic group that governed Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001.
What is the Taliban?
Malalai Kakar
Who was Afghanistan’s first female police officer? NOTE: She was murdered by the Taliban in September 2008
10 – 15 million
What is the estimated number of land mines in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan’s largest agricultural product
What is opium?
A product or service produced in one country for sale in another country.
What is an Export?
Product or service that is brought into a country from another country.
What is an Import?
In trade, imports < exports.
What is a Trade Surplus?
In trade, imports > exports.
What is a Trade Deficit?
Financial assistance from one nation to another.
What is Foreign Aid?