Global awarenes - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Difference between GDP and GNI correct answers - GDP: Gross Domestic Product → PRODUCTION - GNI: Gross National Income → INCOME (includes wages, salaries, and property income) What is HDI? correct answers - Human Development Index - Accounts for life expectancy, educational attainment, and personal income Concept of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) correct answers - Purchasing Power Parity: corrective measure, the economic theory that allows the comparison of the purchasing power of var...

"There are three distinct land forms of the Southeast and of North Carolina: the Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, and the Appalachian Mountains.The Coastal Plain is low, flat to gently sloping land that extends along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Much of the Southeast lies within in the Coastal Plain.The Piedmont, characterized by hilly, rolling land, borders the Coastal Plain. The Piedmont extends from Virginia to Alabama.The Appalachian Mountains, the largest range in the eastern Uni...

Relative Location correct answers Location described by things around location, using landmarks Where do the majority North Americans trace their ethnicity back to? correct answers Europe Problems that can result from less developed countries accepting money from IMF/World Bank. correct answers Third World countries paying back loans What type of air holds less moisture warm or cool? correct answers Cool, affects where people live in regards to geography, Opinions are always more eff...

Globalization correct answers The process of unifying countries by exchanging ideas, views, and products/technologies Technology correct answers Any tool created and used by humansor a piece of machinery that makes a simple or complex task easier Energy correct answers How humans use and harness finite (limited) resources around the world Environment correct answers How humans interact with and impact their surroundings around the world and in their environments International economi...

The date of the midterm exam, and the date of the final. correct answers October 19 and December 19 The name of the mandatory book for class. correct answers "Introduction to Global and International Studies" by Smallman and Brown Definition of global studies. correct answers The term global studies removes the focus on the nation-state and instead places it on the transnational processes and issues that are key in an area defined by globalization. Draws attention to the corporations, po...

Global Awareness Exam Review Questions And Answers Graded A+ The position of a place in relation to another place relative location ____________ is where the majority of North Americans can trace their ethnicity back to. Europe trade of goods and ideas between Europe and the new world colonies. Colombian Exchange Geographical feature of Brazil Amazon Rainforest the movement to make Spain all Catholic Reconquista Strict social class system based on land & military power. No social mobil...

international study correct answers draws too, and prioritizes the actions of nation states. Global Study correct answers draws attention to the corporation's, political organizations, and cultural production and consumption that occur on scales beyond the national. process of globalization correct answers Increasing integration of economics, culture, environmental governance on a global scale process of regionionalization correct answers both the emergence of new regions and the proce...

The proportion of the world's resources the richest 20% of people use is correct answers 76.6% The proportion of the world's resources the poorest 20% of people use is correct answers 1.5% Modernization theory: idea/definition correct answers - a neo evolutionary theory in that it supposes that all nation-states will follow through from one stage to the next in a linear fashion - modernization is possible by abandoning tradition and replicating successful structures from wealthy nations...

"When more people are gathered in one City it creates more of a draw for new immigrants" This describes which Immigration Measuring Model? correct answers Gravity Model The physical characteristics of a location refers to which theme of geography? correct answers Place Which of the following is not a model that studies how and why people move? correct answers Population Pyramids Which immigration model would most accurately describe why immigrants from Mexico would move to the Unit...

Global Awareness Final Exam Review UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers What term is German for reign? - CORRECT ANSWER- reich What is the German term referring to the desire for living space for German people after the Treaty of Versailles took so much land? - CORRECT ANSWER- lebenstron What was the Nazi propaganda term for uniting all German-speaking people no matter where they lived in Europe? - CORRECT ANSWER- anschluss