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World Issues Review for ILC Course CGW4U
Your final summative evaluation contains the following sections:
- Part A: Multiple Choice
- Part B: Terms and Definitions
- Part C: Short Answer
- Part D: Long Answer
Questions
- Why do Sub-Sahaaran countries experience large amounts of poverty? Explain.
- How does education of children help a society deal with poverty? Explain.
- How has Niger's food shortage affected children? Explain.
- How does gender discrimination affect education of children? Explain.
- Why is China's population growth only 6.8% while Ethiopia's population growth is as high as 132.8% per year? Explain.
- How could a government lower the fertility rate of it's country? Explain.
- Why do countries with a low GDP/capita have high birth rates? Explain.
- Why should Canada be concerned with low fertility rates? Explain.
- Why should Canada be concerned with an aging population? Explain.
- How does debt affect some African countries?
- Why should developed countries provide international aid? Explain.
- How could a family be affected by involuntary migration? Explain.
- Describe the situation in the past when the United States was involved in human trafficking.
- Describe two (2) positive and two (2) negative aspects of immigration on society.
- List the three (3) classifications for immigrants in Canada.
- Why does Canada favour immigrant with education and work experience? Explain.
- Provide four (4) reasons why people should be concerned about global consumption.
- Provide two (2) reasons why fish stocks are depleting.
- Describe two (2) rules of the Convention on the Law of the Sea.
- Describe the problem with food on farms that grows faster.
- Why is fertilizer expensive? Explain.
- Describe three (3) drawbacks of using fertilizer.
- Why should people be concerned about pesticide residue on fruit and vegetables?
- Explain how megadams can negatively impact soil.
- How has the "taste shift" in China affecting food production and the economy? Explain.
- Outline the activities of the first Green Revolution.
- Outline the advantages of integrated pest management.
- Outline how road building in African countries could help with food distribution.
- Outline four (4) unique properties of water.
- Should Canada sell her fresh water to other countries? Explain.
- Outline the Devils' Lake project in Manitoba.
- Describe four (4) points about the importance of trees.
- How does the slash and burn forestry method negatively affect the environment? Explain.
- Why are areas flooded when building a hydro-electric dam?
- How does flooding land for a hydro-electric dam affect the land and wildlife and people in the floodplain?
- Should Kurdistan become its own state? Explain.
- How does current approaches to warfare differ from 80 years ago? Explain.
- In your opinion, how should countries fight terrorism? Explain.
- Provide three (3) reasons why some people do not take the issue of global warming seriously.
- Provide three (3) consequences of global warming.
- Outline three (3) environmental issues facing the Niagara, Ontario region.
- Outline three (3) ways oceans are polluted.
- Describe two (2) environmental advantages of coral reefs.
- Outline three (3) threats to coral reefs.
- Outline three (3) negative side effects of using pesticides while growing crops.
- Describe the infrastructure and lifestyle in a typical developing country.
- Outline three (3) ways the world has become more interconnected.
- Outline the Metaclad lawsuit against the Mexican government.
- Outline the impact large multi-national corporations have on the environment and human rights.
- Outline three (3) examples of gender inequality in the world.
- Why are there so many abortions of females in India? Explain.
- Why do women do better economically in Kerala, India? Explain.
- If you were Prime Minister of Canada, what would you do to match the wages of women with men doing the same job?
- Outline three (3) root causes for the number of pregnant teens in Canada.
- If you were Prime Minister of Canada, how would you help to reduce the number of pregnant teens in Canada?
- Why has life expectancy in developed countries increased? Explain.
- Outline three (3) ways to reduce the spread of malaria.
- How has the Stephen Lewis Foundation helped society? Explain.
- Outline the impact of child labour to a society.
- Outline the impact of child soldiers to a society.
- Outline the parameters of the Millenium Development Goal
- Outline how the increase in tourism will affect culture and the economy worldwide.
- Outline three (3) negative impacts of tourism on communities.
- How has terrorism recently affected society?
- Outline one world issue you feel should be dealt with. Provide three solutions.
People
- Maude Barlow
- Tony Clarke
- Jane Goodall
- Garrett Hardin
- James Lovelock
- Wangari Maathai
- Muammar Qadhafi
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Lawrence Solomon
- David Suzuki
Terms
Define each term and explain the significance to the study of world issues.
- albedo
- ASEAN
- baby boomer
- bias
- bilateral aid
- boreal forest
- Bretton Woods Institution
- carbon dioxide levels
- cash crops
- chauvinism
- Chipko Movement
- chronic persistent hunger
- Clayoquot Sound
- climate change
- colonialism
- critical resources
- debt trap
- deforestation
- developed country
- developing country
- disenfranchised
- doubling time
- ecological footprint
- ecological overshoot
- ethnic group
- Exxon Mobil
- foreign aid
- Gaia hypothesis
- global village
- global warming
- Green Belt Movement
- Heavily Indebted Poor Countries HIPC
- Horn of Africa
- human poverty
- human trafficking
- income poverty
- infant mortality
- informal economies
- Kyoto Protocol
- life expectancy
- malnourishment
- methane levels
- Montreal Protocol
- multilateral aid
- NAFTA
- neoliberalism
- neocolonialism
- non-renewable resource
- One Child Policy
- perforated state
- PMTCT
- push pull factors in migration
- renewable resource
- scattergraph
- seasonal migrants
- slum
- stakeholder
- structural adjustment programs
- sustainability
- tragedy of the commons
- United Nations Human Development Report
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
