Unit 1
Companies use outsourcing as a key element in their production in order to gain_______.
What is Higher profits for companies?
The arrival of European explorers in North America in the 1500s launched a series of cultural contacts between the newcomers and the ________?
Who are the First Nations?
“Living a satisfying life in a way that can be maintained into the future” is a good definition for __________________.
What is Sustainable Prosperity?
The level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services and luxuries available to an individual, community or nation is known as _______.
What is Standard of Living?
The basic physical systems of a community, including roads, utilities, water, sewage, and so on is called _______.
What is Infrastructure?
The Beothuk were hunters and gatherers who once lived throughout much of what is now the island of______.
When a company moves some, but not all, of its business operations to a new country.
What is Outsourcing?
_________ includes standard of living as well as non-material things, such as political and religious freedom, health care, and the environment.
What is Quality of Life?
Anti-Globalization activists condemn the uniformity of McDonalds because they believe that it...
What is Spreads American Culture?
What lead to the demise of the Beothuk people?
What is Starvation/ Conflicts with Europeans.
The ___________ was signed by the Allied nations in 1944, establishing a system of rules and regulations to promote international trade.
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement?
A community based organization working on local projects is known as_______.
What is Grassroots Organization?
"I am East Indian," is an example of what type of identity?
What is Collective Identity?
Before the arrival of the Europeans, the people of the plains built their lifestyle around______.
What are the Buffalo?
The ___________ is a financial institution that provided billions of dollars in financial aid to Western European nations following the war.
What is the World Bank?
A person imprisoned by a state for holding political or religious beliefs the state does not tolerate would be known as a ______.
What is a Prisoner of Conscience?
In a globalizing world that depends on efficient communication, English is quickly becoming a global language. The reason for this is...
What is It is the language of business and trade?
A person who studies humans, their societies and customs is________.
What is an Anthropologist?
___________ refers to an economic system based on free markets, private ownership and the profit motive.
What is Capitalism?
The main goal of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is to____.
What is Improve the quality of life of children.
Control of a large amount of the world’s media by a few transnational companies is known as _______.
What is Media convergence?
“The Silk Road” is a name given to the network of trading routes that lay between the Mediterranean and ______.
What is China?
An economic and social system in which the government plans and controls the economy is______.
What is Communism?
People who flee to another country for safety are ______________.
What are Refugees
“The Latinos who are on TV are not representative of our community. They show them as young, violent hoodlums. We are not all like that.” -- This is an example of ______?
What is Stereotyping?
Which two inventions were a driving force for industrialization in the early 1800’s?
What is the Power Loom and the Blast Furnace?
Buy strawberries from California is an example of contributing to which economy?
What is the Global Economy?
Until relatively recent times, women in Canada have not had the rights to vote, hold public office or practice a profession. This is an example of _______.
What is Discrimination?
The process by which cultures become more alike in terms of values, attitudes, beliefs, customs, language, and traditions is known as ________?
The policy of one country extending political, economic, or military control over another country is _______?
What is Imperialism?
Paying bus fare is an example of contributing to to which economy?
What is Local Economy?
The United Nations and the World Trade Organization are examples of which type of Organization?
What is a Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO's)?
Putting a group of people in a lower or powerless position within society is known as______?
What is Marginalization?
An economic system based on free markets, private ownership of business and industry and the profit motive.
What is Capitalism
A major goal of the International Monetary Fund is to_______.
What is giving money to undeveloped countries?
Doctors without Borders is an example of a _________organization.
What is a Non-government Organization (NGO)?
A change in an individual or a group that results from contact with another group is known as________?
What is Acculturation
This law guaranteed the French Canadians their religion, language, and civil law.
What is the Quebec Act?
When nations agree to trade with relatively few restriction they show a belief in_____.
The Organization is most committed to the globalization of human rights?
An urban center with a population of 10 million or more is known as a ________?
What is a Megacity?
Green peace and Mothers Against Drunk Driving are both examples of_____?
What is a Lobby Group?
The technique of digging up land completely, as when mining oil sands is__________.
What is Surface Mining?
The type of government in which one person rules with absolute power.
What is an Authoritarian Government?
The Acadians lived in which part of Canada?
What is Atlantic Canada/The Maritimes?
The last government-run residential school in Canada closed its doors in_____?
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is ______.
What is Sustainable Development?
Diseases can spread much more quickly today than they could a few decades ago because of_____.
What is closer contact between humans and domesticated animals?
_______________ is ““the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people”?
What is Culture?
The Seven Years War was a war between?
What is England and France?
The biggest exporter of forest products in the world.
What is Canada?
____________ is the practice of “safeguarding the future for those coming after us.”
What is Stewardship?
This law made French the official language of Quebec and ensured laws were enacted in french, students had to attend francophone schools unless at least one parent had been educated in English in Quebec (and later elsewhere in Canada), all outside signs had to be written in French only (English was allowed later), workers could not be forced to speak a language other than French.
Bill 101
A Eurocentric economic policy whereby European monarchs increased their wealth through international trade?
What is Mercantilism?
Barriers to Trade.
What is Tariffs?
What some ways individual citizens can have a voice?
What are...
Voting in an elections
Protest Petition
Write a letter to a Member of Parliament or MLA
Boycotting or Dollar voting