Globalization
The term used to describe how the world is more interconnected financially
What is Globalization?
What is scarcity?
Modernization is
What is when a nation becomes industrialized?
Technology developed by the United States during WWII that has had a BIG impact on war
What is nuclear technology?
One benefit of Globalization is
Multiple Answers, as long as it relates to nations having the chance to modernize; human rights, etc
One cause of desertification is
Overgrazing of land by cattle
One way modernization benefits women is they often
What is gain more rights/education?
One advancement in medicine in the 20th/21st centuries has been
What are vaccines/laser surgery/organ transplants/antiobiotics?
What is the Global South?
This practice has led to the loss of trees and a reduction in the oxygen levels of the world
What is deforestation?
This describes the process of people moving to cities
What is Urbanization?
One downside of Globalization is
Multiple answers: low wages, human rights abuses, corporate greed
Causes of air pollution
What are factories/cars/automobiles/toxic waste?
Group responsible for the terror attacks on September 11, 2001
What is Al-Qaeda
Canada, the United States and Japan are part of this region with regards to Globalization
What is the Global North?
Issue related to global warming
What is climate change?
One problem developing nations have with modernization is
what is the tension between tradition and modernization/resistance to change/pressure to westernize
This invention allowed for the creation of personal computers which later led to the Internet. There's an area in California named after this where the big Tech companies are located
What is the silicon chip?