Grade 9 Geography Unit 2 – Global Connections Jeopardy 2

Global Connections

Hunger More Demographics

Afghanistan Trade

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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?