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29 Cards in this Set
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Development |
Use of resources to improve a nations standard of living |
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Economic Development |
Total value of goods and services provided |
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Social development |
The improvement in quality of life, social well being and social justice |
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Political development |
The levels of democracy and freedom of speech |
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Human Development Index (HDI) |
1.Life expectancy 2.Level of education 3.Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita (person) |
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Developed country |
Country with a very high human development |
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Emerging country |
Country with a medium human development |
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Developing country |
Country with a low human development |
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Birth/Fertility rate |
The birth rate of a country |
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Death rate |
The death rate of a country |
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Rostow's Theory (Theory 1) |
There is a path that countries follow to development |
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Frank's Dependency Theory (Theory 2) |
Some countries are poor because of their past/present relationship with other countries |
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Top-Down development |
Happens through Governments and TNCs |
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Bottom-Up development |
Happens through charities and local people |
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Colonisation |
Acquiring control over another country |
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Inequality |
The fact that some countries are poor while others remain wealthy |
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Globalisation |
The increasing connection and interconnection of the world |
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Atmospheric circulation |
The movement of air around the Earth to balance the temperature |
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High pressure |
Settled weather |
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Low pressure |
Unsettled weather (lots of rain) |
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Glacials |
Cold periods |
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Weather |
Short term day-to-day changes in things like temperature, wind, clouds, and rainfall |
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Climate |
The average of weather conditions measured over 30 years |
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Holocene |
The warm period from 10,000 years ago to now |
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Pleistocene |
The last cold period which ended 10,000 years ago |
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Eruption theory |
Large volcanic eruptions that eject large amounts of ash that block out the suns radiation reducing global temperatures |
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Sunspot theory |
Black spots on the sun indicate more energy being released, less sunspots mean less energy released |
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Asteroid theory |
When large material from space hits the Earth's surface ejecting large amounts of dust into the atmosphere partially blocking out the suns radiation leading to glacial periods |
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Orbital theory |
1.Eccentricity: Every 100,000 years the shape of the earth's orbit changes from a circle (warmer) to an oval (colder) 2.Axial tilt: Every 40,000 the earth tilts so the seasons are more pronounced (summers warmer and winters colder) 3. Precession: Every 23,000 years the earth wobbles on its axis making bigger differences between summer and winter |
