Name:______________________________________

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ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY WEBQUEST

Economics is the study of people in the ordinary business of life."
Directions: You will follow the links to find the answers. Some links have audio so use your ear buds or
the headphones. This will be an assessment grade.
1. Go to: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/students/WhatIsEconomics.htm
a. What is economics in your own words?

2. Go to: http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/sectorseconomy.htm
a. Why is a nations economy divided into sectors?

b. Fill in the following chart

WHAT IS IT?

3 EXAMPLES

Primary
Sector
Secondary
Sector
Tertiary
Sector
Quaternary
Sector
Quinary
Sector

3. Go to: http://www.slideshare.net/Geckos/the-four-types-of-economic-systems-presentation
a. What is a Traditional economic system? Give 1 example.

b. What is a Command economic system? Give 1 example.

c. What is a Mixed economic system? Give 1 example.
d. What is a Market economic system? Give 1 example.

4. Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_development#cite_note-0
a. What does economic development mean?
5. Determining economic development:
The Where-to-be-born Index: go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-Life_Index#cite_note-QoL0
i. What is the Where to be Born Index?

ii. What are the 9 factors used to determine a nations quality of life?

iii. Where does the US rank?

6.
a. The Gross National Product: go to
https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-gross-national-product-3305847
i. What is GNP?
Now go to http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/199.asp.
ii. What is the Gross Domestic Product? Why is GDP significant for a nation?
b. Go to: http://wiki.econwiki.com/index.php/GDP. and examine the graph.
-What are the top 3 countries that have the highest GDP?

-What is one thing you can infer about these countries based on this information?

7. Industrialization is a process that transforms agrarian (farming) and handicraft-centered

economies into economies distinguished by industry and machine manufacturing. The Industrial
Revolution that began in England changed the entire world.
Using the following list of websites, compile lists of the effects (social, economic, political, and
physical/resources) of industrialization on the world. This is a hard one so do your best.
Use your headphones for this video clip: http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution#
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialisation
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_effects_of_industrialization_worldwide

Political

Economic

INDUSTRIALIZATION

Social/Cultural

c. Use your headphones for this video clip:

Go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-TKLsobf0g
-What is the standard of living? How is it compiled?

Physical/Resources

d. Literacy rate is also used to determine the economic development of a nation.

Go to: http://www.mapsofworld.com/thematic-maps/world-illiteracy-map.htm
-Which regions of the world have the highest literacy rates? What about the lowest?
Highest
Lowest

Look at the following map of industrialized nations (the ones in blue).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Developed_and_developing_countries.PNG
-Only about 25% of the worlds nations are considered industrialized. What does this tell us
about our role in the world?

e. What is a developed nation?

f. What is a developing nation?
g. What is an underdeveloped nation?

h. Fill in 3 each of the developed nations, developing nations, and underdeveloped (less developed)
nations of the world. You may Google this or use the United Nations webpage.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm#developed
Developed

Developing

Underdeveloped

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i. Go to: http://www.paggu.com/business/world-economy/5-ways-to-reduce-the-gap-betweendeveloped-nations-and-underdeveloped-nations/
How can we reduce the gap between the developed nations and the underdeveloped?
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2.

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j. Use your headphones for this video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-4V3HR696k

-What are the 3 factors that determines if a country will be rich or poor?
1.
2.
3.

-What are some reasons why countries are rich? (2 things)

-What are some reasons why countries are poor? (2 things)