Page 9 - 08_Social_Studies and Population Education Book 8_2078 Revised and Updated Edition

Key Terms
Commitment : the state of being dedicated
Constant : something that does not change through time
Financial Status : financial position or condition
Pace : the speed at which something happens
Primitive : very simple and not developed
Strive : to try very hard to do or get something
Visionary : having vision or foresight

Evaluation Exercises

Activities

1. List down the changes that have come in the community where you live at
present than that of past.
2. Read the following paragraph and prepare a dialogue putting forward your
curiosity.

Export of electricity can change the future of Nepal

Nepal is rich in water resources. The capacity for the production of electricity
is estimated to be 83 thousand megawatt but we haven’t been able to produce
even 2,000 megawatt of electricity. If we could manage to produce up to 10,000
megawatt of electricity, then we could export it and become an economically
strong nation. When will this dream of the nation come true?

Very short answer questions
1. What is development?
2. What does a society need to speed up the development process?

3. Differentiate between human resources and natural resources in a sentence.
4. How does financial resource affect the development of a country?
5. What are the types of countries according to development status?
6. Define developed country.

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