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The Global Process
World Organizations
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Advancing Science
Wonders of Technology
World Economics
100
Unlike fossil fuels, wind power falls into this category of resource.
What are renewable resources?
100
The term used to refer to the still developing countries South of the Tropic of Cancer, in the Southern Hemisphere, or near the equator.
What is the Global South?
100
The two greatest trading partners of the United States.
What are Canada and Mexico?
100
This is an international organization created following World War II to provide a way to negotiate disputes.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
100
This new process provides people with immediate access to world events.
What is "round-the-clock news?"
100
This is the broad name or term given to a cellular phone that also has capacities and functions usually found in a personal computer.
What is a smartphone?
100
These are any goods transported from one country to another.
What are exports?
200
The location of the Three Gorges Dam.
What is China?
200
From 1945 to 1990, the European economy was divided by this international situation.
What is the Cold War?
200
Created in 1994 and replaced by the USMCA in 2020, this agreement fostered free trade between the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
200
This organization began in the mid-19th century to provide independent relief to anyone needing it, but it also helps collect blood for those in medical need.
What is the Red Cross?
200
This structure was built in China to control devastating floods and provide an additional source of electrical power.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
200
In relation to international security, the international community is most concerned with this form of weaponry reaching the hands of terrorists.
What are nuclear weapons?
200
This is a form of protest by voluntarily not using, purchasing or dealing with a person or organization.
What is a boycott?
300
The type of town pictured here:
What is a shantytown (favela)?
300
The Silk Roads, Industrial Revolution, World Trade Organization, and internet all served to connect the world under this process.
What is Globalization?
300
This organization of nations controls the supply and price of oil, a valuable natural resource.
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?
300
This economic measure places limits on the quantity of imported goods and is not a direct tax.
What is a quota?
300
As of early 2025, approximately 19.7% to 23.7% of U.S. workers are employed under this means of employment, thanks to the internet.
What is "telework" or remote work?
300
In the late 1970s, his company, Apple, developed and released one of the first "personal" computers.
Who is Steve Jobs?
300
This is the name for a category of trade barriers that a country may impose on another country or countries.
What is a sanction?
400
The political process demonstrated in this photo:
What is polarization?
400
The invention that has become the greatest factor in the increase of globalization.
What is the internet?
400
This international organization provides financial aid to countries with serious financial hardships.
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
400
What a tariff is intended to protect.
What is domestic industry?
400
This project was intended to help scientists identify the genes that cause certain diseases and develop treatments for them.
What is the Human Genome Project?
400
This was a series of human spaceflight missions undertaken by the U.S. devoted to the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him to Earth safely.
What is the Apollo Program?
400
This is the process of prohibiting commerce and trade with another country. This is often done to affect the country to change an internal policy.
What is an embargo?
500
These two art style movements reflected the uncertainty and absurdity of the modern world after World War I.
What are cubism and surrealism?
500
The European Union has done away with this tax to encourage trade between its member nations.
What is a tariff?
500
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Timor-Leste work as a united trade bloc under this Southeast Asian intergovernmental organization established in 1967.
What is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?
500
This is a European political and economic group that was formed in 1992 to encourage cooperation between the 27 member states.
What is the European Union (EU)?
500
Greenhouse gases and other pollutants were blamed as the main factors of climate change within this international treaty.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
500
This was constructed by 16 countries and launched in 1998 as a working laboratory that orbits Earth.
What is the International Space Station (ISS)?
500
The EU and ASEAN have a trade agreement in effect since 1980, however the EU refuses to trade with Burma/Myanmar as long as human rights are an issue in that country and employs this process.
What are trade barriers?