AP Human Geography: Grab the warm up article on your way in, but don’t write

on it! Answer questions in your warm up section.

Your Test

• 3rd Period Class Average:– FRQ: 77– Multiple Choice: 69

• Multiple Choice:– Certain questions had multiple correct answers or did not count…my

bad.

• FRQ:– Overall pretty good, but…– Why no examples?!

• Take out your My Tracking Sheet and add your score for Political Geography. How did you do compared to past tests?

Economic Development & the World Economy

Unit 7: Economic GeographyLesson 1

Main Idea of this Unit

• What parts of the world perform different economic tasks in the modern global economy, and why?

• Today, we’re just going to cover some basic vocabulary.

Economic Development• Process through which a

country improves its economy– Can involve diffusion of new

technology

How developed is a Country?

• Look at economic and demographic indicators:

• Economic indicators: – GDP per capita

– % of people working in different types of jobs

• Social/demographic indicators include:– Infant mortality rate

– Level of education

– Life expectancy

– Literacy rates

GDP (gross domestic product)

• Value of total amount of goods and services produced in a country in a year– good - Physical product

created for people

– service - Work or labor created for people

per capita GDP / per capita income• The average income of

the people in a country

• GDP divided by population

• A better measure of a country’s standard of living than GDP (think about how GDP is misleading for China)

Annual GDP per capita, 2005

Fig. 9-2: Annual gross domestic product (GDP) per capita averages over $20,000 in most developed countries but under $5000 in most less developed countries.

Human Development Index

• Another way to analyze a country’s level of development.

• Combination of life expectancy, education, and income

• Every country is given a score from 0 to 1

• The closer to 1, the richer the country

Human Development Index

Review!

• Based on old country quizzes, you know what region of the world Haiti is.

• Based on old country quizzes, you know what region Denmark is in.

Levels of Production in Countries

• 5 Levels: Most countries have all of these levels, but in differing amounts

• Different levels of society are involved in different types of production

Primary Production

• Involve taking natural resources out of the ground

• Examples: Oil extraction, agriculture fisheries, forestry

• Most basic level of production

Secondary Production

• Taking natural resources and turning them into finished products.

• Become more common as a society industrializes

• Examples: Clothes manufacturing, turning oil into gasoline, making plastics

Tertiary Production

• Actually selling goods

• Examples: Salesmen, shipping industries, education

Quartiary Industry

• Business services• Become more common as an economy

advances• Examples: Bankers, advertising, insurance• Tend to be high paying jobs

Quinary Sector/Production

• Highest paid, intellectual industries

• Also include luxury goods like tourism and recreation

• Most common in highly developed states (countries)

• Examples: Research, health care, government jobs

% of Workers in each SectorMDCs vs. LDCs

World Systems Theory (Wallerstein, Core-periphery model)

Core Production that involve

higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology

* Generate more wealth in the world economy

Semi-periphery Places where core and

periphery processes are both occurring. Places that are exploited by the core but then exploit the periphery.

Periphery Production that involve lower

levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology

* Generate less wealth in the world economy

Since colonialism, relations between countries have been about countries exploiting less powerful countries. Periphery countries will always be exploited by core countries.

Spatial Organization of the World Economy

Long-term Trends in Per Capita GDP

Millenium Development Goals

• Eight goals established by the United Nations to reduce the gap in development between core and peripheral countries.

Review Questions

• For each of the following, tell me which level of primary-quinary industries is represented.

• I have a company that develops technology for NASA in Houston.

• I have a company that picks bananas in Colombia.

• I have a company that is trying to cure cancer in the Medical Center in Houston.

• I have a company that makes posters for new movies in Los Angeles.

• I work for an investment banking company on Wall Street in New York City.

• I have a company that refines and makes gasoline from oil in Saudi Arabia.

• This is a measure of a country’s development. It includes per capita GDP, level of education, and life expectancy.

• These are goals developed to help periphery countries improve their HDI.

• These are countries that create the most wealth in the global economy.

• I have a company that makes parts of iPhones in China.

• This theory claims that the world can be explained by rich countries exploiting poor countries.

• These are countries that are usually exploited by developed countries, but also exploit developing countries themselves.

On the blank map…

• Circle and label the 7 continents.• Put a star next to the ONLY continent that is

also a country.

• Circle and label a part of the world that would be on the economic periphery.

• Circle and label a part of the world that would be on the economic core.

• Circle the part of the world that has membership in the European Union.

• Circle and label India and China.