Production Patterns in Less and More Developed Countries Worksheet
• Select a less developed country and a more developed country with faculty approval. You must choose countries other than the United States and China. • Research the basic economic production patterns of the two countries you have selected and complete the chart below. • Answer the follow-up question at the end of the chart and cite your references for your country information.
| |Less Developed Country |More Developed Country |
| |Haiti |Japan |
|Geography—natural resources, and so forth |Haiti is has a cresent shape with two | |
| |peninsulas which forn the Gulf of Gonave, | |
| |Its natural resources consists of bauxite, | |
| |manganeses, marble, coal, and limestone. | |
| |The country used to be covered in tropical | |
| |and semitropical rainforest in the 1400’s | |
| |but has suffered from deforestation over | |
| |the centuries. | |
|Climate—arid, tropical, and so forth | | |
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References: Aronson, J. (2011). Haiti. Our World: Haiti, 1. www.scientificamerican.com/