Discovering World Politics- Chapter 12
By 2100, which of the following continents is expected to account for over a third of the global population?
Africa
Which of the following is a provision used by refugees to apply for protection in an outside state when their country of origin is threatening persecution?
Asylum
A person believes that the world is a political element that provides the best source of political governance and identifies personally with the world as a whole rather than with a single country. Which of the following terms defines that person?
Cosmopolitan
Which of the following is the term used to describe the global electronic web of people, ideas, and interactions on the Internet, which is unencumbered by the borders of the geopolitical world?
Cyberspace
The possibility that virulent disease will decimate the world's population is evident in the spread of which of the following diseases?
HIV
Which of the following techniques has allowed terrorist organizations and violent cartels to hide their true identities while using technology to bring on new recruits and terrify people?
Virtuality
Which of the following defines the antipathy for members of a foreign nationality, ethnic, or linguistic group?
Xenophobia
A pandemic virus causes mass casualties and a subsequent decline in the global population despite the rapid growth that occurred the previous year. What would the world experience?
a. A population implosion
Which of the following is a result of globalization, in which people deal with transnational challenges and share a common fate due to increasing international integration?
a. Global village
How is influenza different from other global diseases?
a. Influenza spreads at a frightening rate.
What is the most common reason for people migrating?
a. People migrate in search of better jobs.
What percentage of deaths worldwide do communicable diseases cause, making them a significant threat to human security?
c. 20%
According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, what was the world's total refugee population at the start of 2019?
c. 25.9 million
Most multinational media corporations are in the Global North, where they combine resources and expand their global influence. What is this control of the media by a few corporations known as?
c. A cartel
Which of the following terms is used to portray a future in which borders will vanish and the world will become a single community?
c. Global village
Which of the following groups describes refugees?
c. People who flee for safety to another country because of a well-founded fear of political persecution, environmental degradation, or famine.
Greenland has less than one person living in each square kilometer. Which of the following concepts does this situation represent?
c. Population density
Which of the following describes the worldwide average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime?
c. The fertility rate
When considering globalization, which of the following actions is likely from individuals who demonstrate cognitive dissonance?
c. They reject the idea that traditional systems of independent states should be replaced by a global community.
Who first posited that population increases geometrically, while subsistence increases arithmetically?
c. Thomas Malthus
Life expectancy at birth worldwide reached which of the following milestones in 2017?
d. 72 years
Which of the following scenarios is an example of replacement-level fertility?
d. A couple has two children.
When the global media identified and publicized the illegitimate tactics used by Idi Amin Dada Oumee of Uganda, it influenced other countries to insist on government reform. In which of the following processes did it engage?
d. Agenda setting
Demography is defined as the study of which of the following?
d. Population changes, their sources, and their impact
Many countries in the Global South are experiencing swift population shifts from the countryside to the city. What is this phenomenon known as?
d. Turbo-urbanization
