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this institution provides technical assistance and loans to aid in development, but is often critiqued for interfering in the affairs of nations to which it loans money
What is the World Bank?
100
migration from rural to urban areas is expected to increase drastically in the coming years. What term describes this kind of movement?
What is urbanization?
100
a more inclusive term than Global Warming
What is "global climate change"?
100
this country experienced a genocide in 1994 where the Hutu murdered 800,000 Tutsi
What is Rwanda?
100
Is childhood a biological or cultural state?
One can argue it is cultural because cross cultural ideas of what constitutes childhood varies. In some cultures, children are expected to work, whereas in other cultures, child labor is illegal
200
An organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
What is the IMF or International Monetary Fund?
200
the current world population
What is 7 billion?
200
warming from trapped atmospheric gases
What is the greenhouse effect?
200
About how many people are living in countries other than the ones in which they were born?
What is about 200 million?
200
the US sees childhood as a time of innocence and thinks that we should shelter our children. Children cannot work until 15 in most places in the US. This idea of childhood is relatively new... how long have we held this view of childhood?
Only for about the last 100 years
300
an ideological justification for outsiders to guide local peoples in specific directions
What is intervention philosophy?
300
this policy began in 1979 aimed at controlling China's population
What is China's One Child Policy?
300
these four countries are some of the biggest energy consumers in the world
What is the USA, Canada, Russia, and China
300
estimates suggest that about this much money was sent back to immigrants home nations in 2005
What is about 262 billion dollars?
300
Political instability is nothing new in our modern world. However, it is worse now than before. What are some examples of how political instability has spiraled out of control?
Some examples might include WWI and WWII where fighting spread out over large portions of the globe. Weapons of mass destruction are capable of destroying more human life quicker than any other cultural invention for war ever has been able to in the past.
400
Corporation with offices/factories in more than one country - Ex. Apple, Bacardi, Coca-Cola, Toyota
What are multinational corporations?
400
Large families in undeveloped parts of the world parallel this institution that provides for elders in old age in the USA
What is social security? If you are a forager or pastoralist, the more kids you have, the more people there are to provide for you in your old age once you can no longer provide for yourself
400
this kind of climate is most hard hit by global climate change
What is "the tropics"?
400
the belief that many immigrants have that they will only stay in the nation to which they immigrated for a limited amount of time
What is the "ideology of return?"
500
Term for a factory with conditions that include low wages, long hours, inadequate ventilation, and physical, mental, or sexual abuse
What are sweatshops?
500
What is the carrying capacity of the earth?
Trick question! It depends on how people are living. If people are living more "green" lifestyles, and industrialized nations cut back drastically on their energy and natural resource consumption, the earth could support more people.
500
We currently live in the Holocene, but scientists have considered renaming this time period to reflect the impact humans have had on the earth. This new term is ...
What is "Anthropocene."
500
Immigrants often experience status change when they move to a new nation. What kinds of status might change for them?
What is their economic and social status. For example, you could be a practicing doctor in one nation and when you move you are no longer licensed.