Transcript How does the high literacy rate in Australia affect its economy and

Australia
Review Game
How does the high literacy rate in
Australia affect its economy and
enhance the standard of living for
its citizens?
1. It has no effect
2. It increases GDP and decreases human
capital
3. It increases human capital, GDP, and
Standard of living
4. It decreases GDP but increases standard of
living
3.It increases human capital, GDP, and
Standard of living
Gaining more money from taxes and protecting
nation’s businesses from other foreign companies
is an example of which trade barrier?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Quota
Tariff
Mountains
Embargo
2. Tariff
Which “silent weapon” killed
many aborigines
1.
2.
3.
4.
Contaminated food
Guns
Animals
Disease
4. disease
Why is Asia influential to
Australia?
1.
2.
3.
4.
The 2 nations trade
Similar weather features
Aust. first settlers came from Asia
Common currency
3. Aust. first settlers came from Asia
All of the following are examples
of human capital EXCEPT:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Investing in computers
Investing in GDP
Investing in education
Investing in high-tech jobs
2. Investing in GDP
Plan for energy independence will focus
on using sources of energy we already
have here in the Australia including oil
& natural gas, wind, and solar . This is
an example of:
1.
Utilizing nations OWN resources to help
economy
2. International trading to stimulate jobs and the
economy
3. Utilizing nations resources which will hurt the
economy
1. Utilizing nations OWN resources to help
economy
Why did the British send
prisoners to Australia
1.
2.
3.
4.
Empty plot of land
Lots of housing
No where else to put them
It was a remote island
4 It was a remote island
TRUE or FALSE: Coffee is one
of Australia’s main resource?
1. True
2. False
2. False, TIMBER is the main resource
A remote location, scarcely
populated, where there is little
natural resources best describes:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Coral Reef
Coastal Cities
Outback
Oceania
3. Outback
Which group of people
contributed MOST to the
colonization of Australia?
1. doctors
2. prisoners
3. artists
4. Puritans
2. prisoners
Which occupation helps Aust.
economy the MOST?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Farmers
Miners
Entreprenuers
Factory workers
1. farmers
How did the ice age impact
Australia?
1. It offered more fishing to early explorers
2. It provided natives with water and ice
cap mountains
3. The low sea levels exposed the land
providing a place to live
4. The natives wanted to move from Asia
3 The low sea levels exposed the land
providing a place to live
Which major physical feature
does the Great Barrier Reef
touch?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Indian Ocean
Darling River
Oceania
Coral Sea
4. Coral Sea
Why did the population of
Aborigines decrease more in the
19th century?
1.
2.
3.
4.
The kids were being taken
They were dying of disease
The tribes were having conflicts
The British population mixed with the
aborigine population
2. They were dying of disease
Why can’t tourism jobs sustain
Aust. Economy?
1. Tourism is seasonal and only happens at
certain times in the year
2. Tourism doesn’t attract enough people
3. The places to tour is Aust. are not all
that!
4. Tourism is a steady money maker
1. Tourism is seasonal and only happens at
certain times in the year
Taking too many fish out of the
sea is known as
1.
2.
3.
4.
fish depletion
fish exile
exfishing
overfishing
4. overfishing
What is the title of Queen
Elizabeth in Aust?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Governer
Head of State
President
Prime Minister
2. Head of State
2 houses in the legislature is:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Bicameral
Bilingual
Bilegislatre
Bi-casas
1. Bicameral
An entrepreneur is:
1. someone who fails at a business
2. someone who succeeds at a business
3. someone who takes a risk to start a
business
4. someone who borrows money
3. someone who takes a risk to start a
business
What type of economy does
Aust. Have?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Market
Capitalist
Mixed
command
3. mixed
Which of the following is an
example of investing in human
capital?
1. taxing people
2. building universities
3. farming corn
4. installing telephones
2. building universities
destruction of the Great Barrier
Reef, ozone depletion, global
warming are all examples of:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Natural resources
Aust. Use of economic goods
Challenges for Aust. Farmers
Concerns for the environment
4 Concerns for the environment
Technology, machines, services,
manufacturing, phones are all
example of which type of
productive resource/good?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Natural
Capital
Human
Capitalism
2. Capital
High-tech job, educated, literacy
rate are all examples of which type
of productive resource/good?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Natural
Capital
Human
Capitalism
3. human
True/False, Tea Production is
useful in Aust. Economy?
1. True
2. False
2. False!
tourism, fishing, and farming are important
for Aust. economy
Tree planting will help…
1.
2.
3.
4.
The economy
The survival of ecosystem
The aborigine population
Provide more jobs
2. The survival of ecosystem
All of the following are capital
goods EXCETPT:
1. assembly lines
2. telephones
3. education
4. Computers
3. education
Northeast Aust. Several fish and
organisms live here, in the Coral
Sea best describes:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Great Victoria Desert
Ayers Rock
Great Barrier Reef
Oceania
3 Great Barrier Reef
Northeast Aust. Home to the
Great Barrier Reef, dumps into
Pacific Ocean best describes:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Great Victoria Desert
Coral Sea
Great Barrier Reef
Oceania
2. Coral Sea
Stretches across central Aust,
huge, red boulder best
describes:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Great Victoria Desert
Coral Sea
Oceania
Ayers Rock
4. Ayers Rock
located in South and Western
Australia named after British
queen Victoria
1.
2.
3.
4.
Great Victoria Desert
Coral Sea
Oceania
Ayers Rock
1. Great Victoria Desert