Deck 2: A Global Context

Question 1

The world's population has changed since 1900 from under 2 billion to currently

A) 5 billion
B) 16 billion
C) 7.5 billion
D) 1 billion

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Environmental pressures from supporting the earth's people is evident by looking at a cities ecological footprint which measures the following except

A) How much water and land a city requires to produce resources required by residents
B) How a city absorbs its waste
C) How many malls are in the city limits
D) Global hectares per capita

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Sustainable development is a guiding principle built on three pillars which involve all but one of the following

A) Economy
B) Electricity
C) Ecology
D) Equity

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which risks of climate change threaten North America?

A) Water resources
B) Wildfires
C) Heavier storms
D) All of the above

Question 5

Globalization has been occurring on the earth for over 500 hundred years. The basic idea of globalization is how the world is connecting as a unit. Which of the following is not an example of the three acknowledged globalization phases

A) Trade between Native Americans and Europeans in the 17^th C
B) Worldwide trade system with London at the center in mid-19^th C to early 20^th C
C) Emergence of a global economy in the late 1980's that created a need for global governance and had an impact on cross cultural adaptation.
D) The World Series in baseball

Question 6

While many aspects of globalization are seen as creating worldwide networks, economic partnerships, and cultural diffusion, there are issues with its progress too, such as

A) The wealthy are getting wealthier and more powerful.
B) The increase in trade across countries is not delivering significantly higher working-class wages.
C) Jobs are leaving the U.S. as manufacturing moves overseas where labor is cheaper, but neither job development nor training in the U.S. is keeping pace.
D) All of the above.

Question 7

The advent of this third phase of globalization has had a big impact on many nations' cultural identity. In turn this has flared up tensions around the following except

A) Immigrants being viewed as economic and social threats.
B) Globally televised international sports competitions
C) Increase of racist parties and/or rhetoric to support anti-immigration policies
D) An increase of cultural homogeneity in the flow of ideas and information.

Question 8

Global shift, as an economic trend, is defined as

A) More developing nations becoming main providers of manufactured goods
B) Plate tectonic activity
C) Working on the international clock
D) Every worker becoming rich

Question 9

The decline in poverty, as an economic trend, has meant the following except

A) One billion people have moved from "poor" to "low-income" in the last 40 years.
B) There are still concentrations of global poverty in regions in Asia and Africa.
C) China and India are countries that have seen the most change worldwide.
D) Everyone on the planet has access to electricity and running water.

Question 10

Growing inequality is also an economic trend because

A) Redistribution of wealth is a mandate
B) People choose not to work
C) Wealth is concentrated at the top of a socioeconomic hierarchy.
D) There is satisfaction among the poor to serve the wealthy.

Question 11

The Demographic Transition Model represents

A) The number of men and women in a country
B) The progressive changes in birth and death rates and the resulting natural increase rate of the population of a country
C) Stages of economic development
D) How people are transitioning into new work roles

Question 12

The demographics of a youth bulge and the aging of a population are important to follow because

A) Tracking them can predict when their inputs have a significant impact on economic activity
B) Dieting fads and face creams can dominate the market
C) Intergenerational connection programs are in high demand
D) Aging communities need young people

Question 13

Changes that have helped women increase their efficacy and contribution to their family and community include all of the following except

A) Reproductive rights and technologies
B) Political representation and economic earning power
C) Earning pay equal to men
D) Increased access to education

Question 14

Where do the majority of people live today on the earth?

A) On farms
B) In gated communities
C) In cities
D) In small towns

Question 15

Issues not often associated with rapid urban growth are

A) Not enough adequate housing
B) Increase in pollution and waste
C) Job development that cannot keep pace with population
D) The number of movies theaters to meet demand

Question 16

Cities around the world are often at the heart of climate change issues such as:

A) Mass devastation after natural disasters (earthquakes, flooding, tsunamis)
B) Rising sea levels due to warming of atmosphere
C) Lack of green space and thus temperatures higher in areas with few trees
D) All of the above

Question 17

Right now the United States is considered the major world power however, other regions are changing this dynamic of a new world order because of

A) The economic rise of the European Union and China, and the military power and aggressive foreign policy of Russia
B) The internet and social media
C) The Cold War
D) None of the above

Question 18

These factors have contributed to a decline in overall political violence

A) Decline in civil wars around the world.
B) Absence of large-scale world conflicts
C) Scrutiny of state violence by other governments
D) All of the above

Question 19

Non-state actors refer to

A) Actors who are members of a union
B) Militant organizations that operate outside of a government
C) Illegal immigrants who cannot vote
D) Networks of prison inmates

Question 20

The past 30 years on the planet has seen a variety of overall improvements to the well-being of its large and growing population. Below are ways this progress has been measured

A) We can now watch movies with subtitles in major world languages
B) Air travel has many new routes
C) Child mortality, political violence, and absolute poverty are declining
D) media has proliferated.

Question 21

The world-wide average life expectancy in 2015 was

A) 48 years
B) 65 years
C) 87 years
D) 71 years

Question 22

While there are still many people living in conditions of war, disease, hunger, poverty; the number of undernourished people continues to

A) increase
B) decrease
C) stay the same
D) grow exponentially