9.1 and 9.2
What are shipping containers and what are their purpose?
Large standard-sized units that could be carried on a truck or train or stacked on ships. Promoted the widespread movement of goods.
What was a result of population increase when regarding the environment?
Deforestation, soil erosion, and smaller habitats for many species of plants and animals.
What was the 1965 Voting Rights Act?
An act that banned discrimination in voting.
Define modernism.
A rejection of tradition in favor of experimentation and uncertainty.
What was the "Big Bang"? (Not the TV show)
The theory that the universe started with one single cosmic event. Led to a better understanding of the universe as well as atomic and subatomic science.
What was the first antibiotic?
Penicillin, a useful agent in curing bacterical infections.
Name 3 environmental changes that led to increased competition for increasingly scarce resources. (4 possible answers.)
Deforestation, desertification, decline in air quality, increased consumption of the world's supply of fresh water.
What does "UNICEF' stand for?
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
Define popular culture.
The culture of everyday people rather than the educated elite- expressed itself through new media (radio motion pictures, etc.).
What replaced older systems of communication in the 20th century?
Internet communication and cell phones.
Name 2 major diseases that mainly persisted within those related to poverty. (3 possible answers.)
Malaria, tuberculosis, cholera.
Define "economic liberalization".
The opening up of a country's economy.
What did the Universal Declaration of Human Rights do?
Asserted basic rights and fundamental freedoms for all human beings.
Give an example of online commerce.
Amazon or eBay
What was the International Peace Bureau?
Founded in 1891. Helped maintain world peace and improve communication among countries during a time of globalization. Won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1910.
What was the "Arab Spring" when regarding social media?
A series of antigovernment protests that spread from country to country in North Africa and the Middle East in the 2010s as people shared their protest experiences on social media.
What was the Green Belt Movement?
A movement based on protecting wilderness areas from urban growth.
What did the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) want to do?
The TRC sought to restore and establish an atmosphere of trust in the new multiracial South Africa.
What was the purpose of the International Monetary Fund?
Works to maximize profit and sacrifice safety and labor conditions, environmental conservation needs, and national independence.
In developing countries, the population growth rate was largest in the _____ _____ classes.
lower socioeconomic
What was one of the major discoveries in fighting heart disease? (HINT: First attempted in 1967.)
Heart transplants
Define "Anthropocene".
The present time. Term meaning "new man".
Who founded the Green Belt Movement?
Mangari Maathai (in 1977)
Who was Manal al-Sharif?
A women's rights activist against platforms such as Twitter and Facebook due to their enabling of harassment and oppression of citizens by using fake news and hate.
What was the purpose of wave science?
To lead to improvements in radio and cellular communications as well as faster internet service.