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ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY WEBQUEST
“Economics is the study of people in the ordinary business of life."
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 nation’s economy divided into sectors?
b. Fill in the following chart
WHAT IS IT? 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 Mixed economic system? Give 1 example.
c. 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:
a. The Quality of Life Index: go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-Life_Index#cite_note-QoL-0
i. What is the Quality of Life Index?
ii. What are the 9 factors used to determine a nation’s quality of life?
