Modern Day Connections
What concept is shown when the USA, under Trump, intervenes in Venezuela and detains its leader, drawing attention from countries like Russia and Iran?
What is geopolitics?
What does B.O.L.T.S stand for?
What are Borders, Orientation, Legend, Title and Scale?
What does the Lorax do?
What is speak for the trees?
What is Geopolitics?
What is how countries interact and use power?
What is the concept called when, on September 11th, 2001, attacks were placed in the US on the "twin towers"?
What is terrorism?
What concept is shown when people around the world use iPhones that are designed in the United States, assembled in China, and sold globally?
What is globalization?
What is a Paradigm shift?
What is a change in thinking about a certain topic?
This concept describes what happens when individuals overuse a shared resource because they act on their self‑interest, eventually harming everyone.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
The European Union has ___ member counries. (Hint: #)
What is 27?
This concept is shown when European powers like Spain and Britain took control of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries, claiming land and ruling over Indigenous peoples.
What is colonialism or colonization?
What concept is shown when millions of people get their news from major companies like CNN?
What is mainstream media?
What is the worldview of "Earth as a natural system"? Hint: (The 4 Natural Systems)
What are the Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere and Biosphere?
This worldview believes that humans can solve environmental problems through innovation and technology.
What is a technocentric view?
By 2050, what country was forecasted to become the world’s largest economy, passing the United States?
What is China?
What is the concept called when US companies in the late 20th century started moving manufacturing and customer‑service jobs to countries like China, India, and Mexico to reduce costs?
What is outsourcing?
What concept is shown when countries protect the Amazon Rainforest to keep biodiversity and ecosystems, even when it costs them more money?
What is an ecocentric worldview?
What are the 4 Implications of an issue?
What are Political, Environmental, Social and Economic implications?
What is Carrying Capacity?
What is the maximum number of people an environment can sustainably support?
What country was the movie Blood Diamond located in?
What is Sierra Leone?
What is the concept called when countries in the mid‑20th century became more connected as international organizations like the UN and WTO were established to expand global cooperation and trade?
What is globalism?
What is the concept called when NASA discovers new planets outside our solar system, like the TRAPPIST‑1 system with seven planets just like Earth?
What are planetary systems?
What is the "Eye of the Beholder" quote?
What is “We see what we want to see...and we hear what we want to hear…”?
What are the 4 basic categories of justification for placing a value on the environment?
What are utilitarian, ecological, aesthetic, and moral justifications?
What is the concept called when, in the 17th and 18th centuries, colonies were required to send raw materials to the mother country and could only buy its manufactured goods?
What is the mercantile system?
What is the analogy called when, for decades, people ignored evidence that smoking cigarettes caused serious health problems, reacting only after the danger had slowly built up over time?
What is the "Frog in the Pot" analogy?