2.4 Causes of uneven development

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2.4 Causes of uneven development

In rich countries ...

1. most people work in the primary sector
2. most people work in primary and the secondary sector
3. most people work in the tertiary sector
4. most people work in the primary and the tertiary sector

Look at the map. Which term can be a title for this map?

1. Population density
2. GDP per person
3. Life expectancy
4. Literacy rate

If healthcare is bad, and people don't get enough to eat. This number becomes lower.

Which term is described here?

If we want to know if a country is rich or poor. What can we look at? 

Gives you information about how a country is doing

Doesn't give you information how a country is doing

On average, someone is 75 years old when he or she dies in this country.

The average population density is 210 people per square kilometre.

There are lots of mountains in this country. 

Most people in this country can read and write.

Most people do jobs in the primary sector.

Look at the following jobs. To which sector do they belong? 

Primary

Secondary

Tertiary

Baker

Journalist

Docter

Miner

Singer

Website maker

Clothes maker

Look at the words below. Which words belong to the rural area, and which words belong to the urban area? 

Rural area

Urban area

Town

Densely populated

Countryside

Zwolle

Sparsely populated

Village

Make the correct combinations. What is the cause for urbanisation, and what is the cause for suburbanisation? One of the answers you don't use. 

Urbanisation

Suburbanisation

People could buy a car

The life expectancy became higher

People started to work in factories

Aims

• Explain uneven development in the world by describing different physical and human factors;
• Explain that there is no single reason for underdevelopment.

reasons for development

Write down on you whitebords

all the factors of uneven developmen of countries  you can think of

Physical reasons

Most LEDCs in the South are in a dry and infertile region:

• Risk of drought = long periode with little or no rainfall.
• Effects: No drinking water, no water for cattle or to grow crops, famine can occur (lack of food for people).
• Famine is an example of a natural hazard: an extreme natural event that can endanger human life (other examples: hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.).
• Climate change can lead to heavier natural hazards.

Drought causing the death of cattle in East Africa.

Colonialism: a human factor

History: LEDCs were colonies of rich European countries.

Main reason: natural resources = precious materials

provided by the earth that humans can make use of.

In the 20th century countries became independent.

The North created countries with artificial borders;

Civil wars occured (wars between groups of people in a country.

Political failures

Poor governance = when a government does not take the responsibility to take care of the needs of their citizens.

Corruption = the abuse of power for personal gain.

Economic failures

Unfair trade = when one of the trading parties is not treated fairly.

Protectionism = when countries protect their own market by banning or restricting foreign products.

Neo-colonialism = a new form of colonialism in which poor countries are still dependent on rich countries.

A form of protectionism with sugar

Homework 1HVT

tomorrow:

• Task: Read 2.4 and do ex. 1 to 4, 7, 8 and 10 
•  Challenge task: Do ex. 5 + 9