1.  Please go through your book / mock, consider
my comments & reply to them.
 Choose a target from below and write in the
‘What to do next’ box of the WWW stamp
 Correctly answer exam style answers using Point,
Evidence, Explain, Link
 Use connectives appropriately to develop my points
 Avoid the use of banned words, using geographical
terms instead
 Make links between concepts & theory
 Accurately use keyterms to explain

2. For examination May 22nd 2014

3. Countdown

4. Then take away weekends & holidays…..
….122 days in school before the
exam….
….or just 82 hours of Geography

5. For examination May 22nd 2014

6. What does the
term
‘development’
mean?

7. MEDC or LEDC – How do we
decide?
MEDC – More Economically Developed Country -
wealthier
LEDC – Less Economically Developed Country -
poorer
What features/characteristics would you expect
each to have / not have?

8. MEDC or LEDC? – Make a guess.
Write down your choice & your proof

23. MEDC or LEDC – How do we
decide?
What problems did you come across when
attempting to decide whether a picture
represented an MEDC or LEDC?
Need to use DATA!!!
PROVE IT

24. 1. GDP $ per capita (average income per
person per year)
2. HDI (human development index)
3. Access to doctor
4. Birth Rate
5. Death Rate
6. Literacy
7. Life expectancy
8. Access to technology etc.

25. Key Terms reminder
Standard of Living:
Quality of Life:
Human Development Index (HDI):
A measure of how happy and content people
are with their lives, considers not just money
but other factors like education + healthcare
How well-off a person or country
is, focusing purely on economic factors –
income and jobs
A statistic used to rank
countries by level of "human
development“, taking into account a country’s
GDP (wealth), Education and Life

26. If you were measuring how developed a
country is, which factors would you consider
more important? Which factors are the best
indicators?

27. Is it economic?

28. Is it communications?

29. Interdependence…
global links?

30. Trade?

31. Is it about
population
size?

33. Birth
rate?

34. Poverty?

35. Quality
of life?

36. Access to
Healthcare?

37. Access to Human rights?

38. Law &
justice?

39. Access to
Education?

40. Culture &
Identity?

41. Political
stability?

42. Right to vote?

43. Environmental
quality?

44. Sustainability?

45. So, what do
you think?
1. I would measure how developed a country is by
considering………….
2. Some factors such as………….may be more
important because they show…….
3. I would expect a ‘developed’ country to
be……and to have……because…….

46. youtube

47. Watch the world change from those
earning less than $1 a day to those on
$200 a day
http://www.worldmapper.org/animations/inc
ome_animation.html

48. 2 x sheets on development indicators

49. Measures of
Development
The total of all money
produced per year by a
country’s workers
The percentage of people
in the country employed
in primary occupations
The average number of
years a person can
expect to live
Number of patients
divided by the number of
doctors
The amount of energy
which each person in the
country uses per year
The number of deaths
per year per 1000 people
The wealth shared out
equally among all the
people of a country
Number of adults who
can read and write in
every 100 people
The number of children per
year out of every 1000
born alive that die before
they reach the age of one
Number of kilocalories
(kcals) each person in the
country takes in each day
The number of births per
year per 1000 people
Primary Employment; Birth Rate; Infant Mortality; Life Expectancy; GDP; Death Rate;
Energy Per Person; Food Intake; GDP per capita; Literacy Rate; People per doctor
Economic Social

50. Describe & explain which indicator you
think is best for measuring development
[3marks]
Suggest two ways that an MEDC is
different to an LEDC [2marks]

54. Knowledge Check
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

55. 1 What does
$GDP
per
Capita mean?

56. 2 Give three
reasons why an
MEDC such as
the UK has such
a low Birth Rate

57. 3 MEDC or
LEDC, and give a
reason

58. 4 Give three
reasons why
some LEDCs
have high death
rates.

59. 5 MEDC or LEDC and
give a reason

60. 6 Give two
reasons why
Adult Literacy
rates are low in
some LEDC
countries

61. 7 Explain why
many people in
LEDC countries
work in primary
employment like
agriculture.

62. 8Give three reasons
why birth rates in
some LEDC
countries are so
high.

63. 9 Give two reasons why
measuring the % of a
population who own a
mobile phone is a good
indicator of
development

64. Yes! I have understood fully and can confidently use
the key terms
I get most of it, but I’m sometimes unsure when to use
the keywords
Help! I don’t understand it!