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Employment changes in the UK

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18 questions
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  • Q1
    What employment sector does a doctor work in?
    Tertiary
    Quarternary
    Secondary
    Primary
    30s
  • Q2
    What sector does a farmer work in?
    Primary
    Tertiary
    Secondary
    Quarternary
    30s
  • Q3
    What sector does a microbiologist work in?
    Quarternary
    Primary
    Tertiary
    Secondary
    30s
  • Q4
    Which sector is biggest in the UK?
    Primary
    Secondary
    Tertiary
    Quarternary
    30s
  • Q5
    Which sector was biggest in the UK in 1800?
    Primary
    Secondary
    Tertiary
    Quarternary
    30s
  • Q6
    What is the process called when manufacturing jobs decline in an HIC?
    Tertiarisation
    Global shift
    Urbanisation
    Deindustrialisation
    30s
  • Q7
    What has happened to the percentage of primary jobs in the UK since 1800?
    Stay the same
    Decline
    Increase
    30s
  • Q8
    Which one of these is a network in the global economy?
    United Nations
    Migrant workers
    Transport infrastructure
    World Bank
    30s
  • Q9
    Which of these is a player in the Global economy?
    Transport networks
    Migrant workers
    World Bank
    Internet
    30s
  • Q10
    Which of these things mean that a country has a comparative advantage?
    Improved transport systems
    Ability to produce things at a lower cost than anyone else
    Increased number of workers
    Better quality products
    30s
  • Q11
    Who came to power in the UK in 1979?
    John Major
    Margaret Thatcher
    David Cameron
    Ronald Reagon
    30s
  • Q12
    What happened to the number of people that were unemployed in the UK during the 1980s?
    Stayed the same
    Increased
    Decreased
    30s
  • Q13
    What happened to the number of working coal mines in the UK during the 1980s?
    Increased
    Decreased
    Stayed the same
    30s
  • Q14
    This is the definition, what is the key word? "Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".
    Modernisation
    Global Shift
    Sustainability
    Deindustrialisation
    30s
  • Q15
    Which one of these would make a quarry more sustainable?
    Increasing the length of the working day.
    Increasing the size of the quarry
    Planting more trees
    Reducing the number of jobs
    30s

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