AP Human Geography Chapter 9: Development
Across
- 1. The amount of a resource remaining in discovered deposits
- 4. Provision of small loans and other financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries
- 7. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
- 11. Fuel that derives from plant material and animal waste
- 14. A rapid increase in the value of houses followed by a sharp decline in their value
- 16. A nuclear power plant that creates its own fuel from plutonium
- 17. The splitting of an atomic nucleus to release energy
- 20. A resource that has a theoretically unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
- 21. Solar energy systems that collect energy without the use of mechanical devices.
- 22. A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology
- 23. Eight international development goals that all members of the United Nations have agreed to acheive by 2015
- 24. Creation of energy by joining the nuclei of two hydrogen atoms to form helium
- 25. The pumping of water at high pressure to break apart rocks in order to release natural gas
- 26. Investment made by a foreign company in the economy of another country
- 27. The percentage of a country's people who can read and write
- 29. Power generated from moving water
- 30. Energy from steam, or hot water produced from hot or molten underground rocks
Down
- 1. A solar energy cell that collects solar rays to generate electricity
- 2. The percentage of women holding full-time jobs outside the home
- 3. Solar energy systems that collects energy through the use of mechanical devices such as photovoltaic cells or flat-plate collecters
- 5. The number of women who die giving birth per 100,000 births
- 6. The quantity of something that producers have available for sale
- 8. An energy source formed from the residue of plants and animals buried millions of years ago
- 9. Modification of the HDI to account for inequality within a country
- 10. The amount of a resource in deposits not yet identified but thought to exist
- 12. The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19.
- 13. A measure of the extent of each country's gender inequality
- 15. A country that has progressed relatively for along a continuum of development
- 18. The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor needed to make
- 19. A source of energy that has a finite supply capable of being exhausted
- 28. The quantity of something that consumers are willing and able to buy