Unit 9 Quiz Review

Flashcards covering key concepts and terms from the Unit 9 quiz review on communication, agriculture, health, economics, and human rights.

New modes of communication—including blank communication, blank communication, and the

blank—as well as transportation, including blank travel and shipping blankets, reduced the problem of

geographic distance.

radio; cellular; internet; air; containers

The Green Revolution and commercial agriculture increased productivity and sustained the earth’s growing blank as it spread blank and blank modified forms of agriculture.

population; chemically; genetically

Energy technologies, including the use of blank and blank power, raised productivity and increased the production of material goods.

Petroleum; nuclear

More effective forms of blank control gave women greater control over fertility, transformed reproductive practices, and contributed to blank rates of fertility in much of the world.

birth; declining

Medical innovations, including blank and blank, increased the ability of humans to survive and live longer lives.

vaccines; antibiotics

Name at least 2 diseases that persist in impoverished areas today.

Malaria, Tuberculosis, Cholera

Name at least 2 new epidemics from 1900-today

Spanish flu, Ebola, AIDS, COVID-19

Name at least 2 diseases that occur at higher incidence today merely because of longer lives

Heart disease, Alzheimers disease, Cancer

name at least one disease that is more common due to lifestyle changes

Heart disease, diabetes

As human activity contributed to blank, blank, a decline in blank quality, and increased consumption of the world’s supply of blank water, humans competed over these and other resources more intensely than ever before. The release of greenhouse gases and pollutants into the atmosphere contributed to debates about the nature and causes of blank.

deforestation; desertification; air; water; climate change

Name at least 2 examples of world leaders promoted free market policies (leader and country)

Reagan for the US, Thatcher for the UK, Deng Xiaoping for China

In the late 20th century, revolutions in information and communications technology led to the growth of knowledge economies in some regions, while industrial production and manufacturing were increasingly situated in blank and blank America.

Asia; Latin

Name three countries that classify as “knowledge economies”

Finland, USA, Japan

Name at least 1 international economic institution that promotes free market economics

World trade organization, international monetary fund

Name at least 2 regional trade agreements

NAFTA, north american free trade agreement; European Union; Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN

Rights-based discourses challenged old assumptions about race, class, gender, and religion. This includes the U.N. Universal Declaration of blank, especially as it sought to protect the rights of blank, blank, and blank.

Human rights; children; women; refugees

In much of the world, access to education as well as participation in new political and professional roles become more inclusive in terms of race, class, gender, and religion. name at least 3 specific examples of this

The right to vote and/or to hold public office granted to women in the US and the UK by 1920. The rising rate of female literacy and the increasing numbers of women in higher education in most parts of the world. The US civil rights act of 1965. The end of apartheid.

new international organizations, including the blank, formed with the stated goal of maintaining world peace and facilitating international cooperation.

United Nations