Globalizations and Human Societies Exam 1

Desertification affects 36 countries in Africa. What percentage of the continent's farmland has lost capacity for growing crops due to desertification?

65%

Where did the concept of citizenship originate?

Ancient Greece

All of the following statements regarding China in the 21st century are true except for?

China will never be in a position to be a major global military and political power.

By which name is the United Nations Conference on Environmental and Development in Rio de Janeiro known?

Earth Summit

According to Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat (2205) what is the major world Flattener?

Fall of Berlin Wall

All of the following are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council except for ______.

Germany

According to current estimates, in which two countries do the majority of the 780 million people suffering from hunger live?

India and China

What is dubbed as the ______________________ revolution and in which country?

The Green and/or Twitter Revolution in Iran

Following World War I, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson advocated for the creation of which international organization?

The League of Nations

Bitcoins are tied to which of the following countries?

They are not tied to any country.

In 1882, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary banded together to form the______.

Triple Alliance

Crimea, a peninsula currently occupied by Russia, originally belonged to what country?

Ukraine

What is international studies?

a field of inquiry that examines the broad array of geographic, political, economic, social, and cultural interactions and relationships that cross borders

The Cultural Revolution was ______.

a movement led by Mao Zedong in China in the 1960s to shield the country from outside forces that were deemed responsible for eroding the ideology of the communist revolution

A system of states that relies on shifting alliances to balance relationships and prevent conflict is better known by the term ______.

balance of power

All of the following are examples of cultural borders except?

class

Key inventions of the industrial revolution include all of the following except for ______.

computers

All of the following are examples of the tragedy of the commons except for the ______.

cutting down of trees on private property

During the Cold War, India ______.

declared itself as "nonaligned"

All of the following items was identified as making cloud computing important except for ______.

desktops

According to the transformationalist perspective of globalization, when did the second wave of globalization occur?

during the rise of European metropolitan centers and merchant classes in the 16th-century CE

Citizens using text messages, Twitter, and Facebook to orchestrate revolutions is an example of technology being used to cross what type of borders?

economic borders

A natural asset of the earth that is available to all is better known as ______.

global commons

All of the following were identified as the uses of trains during the industrial revolution except for ______.

helped transport inmates across state lines

In 1994, Rwanda caused controversy globally when it received little international attention during _____.

its genocide of the Tutsis by Hutu extremists

Alexander von Humboldt

made the first systematic observations about the climate as related to geography

All of the following factors affect the cost of food except for ______.

nutritional quality

Cyberterrorism ______.

occurs when groups or individuals unlawfully attack and manipulate Internet information to further either their personal or group's gains

All of the following are examples of the R "reuse" except for ______.

placing plastic bottles and other items in appropriate containers during trash pickups

International studies often draws upon multiple disciplines and perspectives, including ______.

political science, sociology, and economics

All of the following are ways in which humans contribute to the environmental tragedy except for ______.

pollination

Oxfam, a British nongovernmental organization, defines a global citizen as someone who ______.

respects and values diversity and participates in the community at a range of levels

All of the following are reasons as to why the first Gulf War was important except for _____.

resulted in a new distribution of power

All of the following apply to political science except for ______.

solely supports a political philosophy based on the democratic tradition that emphasizes the potential for cooperation among states

Some of the innovations of the second industrial revolution underlie the great 20th-century transformations. These include ______.

the affordable automobile, the telegraph, and the telephone

Deforestation is __________.

the destruction of forest areas due to human actions or environmental factors

The development of digital technology in the 21st century characterized by the ability to transfer large amounts of information with ease and to access knowledge from virtually any location characterizes ______.

the digital age

Only 27.7% of Africa's population and only 45.2% of Asia's population have Internet access. This illustrates the concept of ______.

the digital divide

People are harmed by globalization ______.

through cultural homogenization

All of the following are ways in which technology helps us cross social and cultural borders except ______.

through financial remittances

People benefit from globalization ______.

through increasing overall standards of living and empowering people politically and economically

Constructivism is an international relations ideology that ______.

views the states and the rules that govern it as an artificial construct