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Sharing of ideas, cultures, traditions around the world
Global village
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Date first satellite launched
1957
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Bad uses of technology?
War, computer hackers, loss of privacy
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Name one or two problems of developing nations:
Over population, hunger, pollution, political unrest
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Major cause of air pollution
Burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas)
200
Businesses that hire workers from all over the world – example: McDonald’s
Multinational corporations
200
International Space Station
What is the ISS?
200
What happens in one nation affects other nations – this is called:
interdependence
200
What is a trade imbalance ?
Buying more than selling
200
Three things we can do to help the Earth
reduce, reuse and recycle
300
Messages directed at many people – TV commercials, newspaper and magazine advertisements
Mass communications
300
70% of France’s electricity comes from this source
Nuclear power
300
Manufacturers satisfy the needs and wants of consumers, can make as much as they want of anything they want
Free-market economy
300
Who helps the poor countries economically?
World Bank and International Monetary Fund
300
What is global warming ?
Earth heating up, change rainfall patterns, melt polar caps
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This started the technological revolution
computers
400
Site of world’s worst nuclear disaaster
Chernobyl
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In which hemisphere are there more developing countries?
Southern
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What the World Bank does
gives money to build dams, mines, roads, bridges, improve education, health, environment
400
Use of science to do practical things
technology
500
First space satellite?
Sputnik
500
Good uses of technology?
Medicine, less labor, communication, help to handicapped (Stephen Hawking)
500
Growing enough for family only, not for sale
Subsistence farming
500
What the IMF does?
give money in times of bad economic crises
500
International computer network
Internet