Araling Panlipunan Flashcards

Flashcards about Araling Panlipunan topics

What is DepEd?

What government department in the Philippines oversees education?

What is a Contemporary Issue?

What is an event, idea, topic, or problem happening in a society, country, or the world that causes change in the present time?

Name an issue covered as contemporary issues

Health, Social, National, and Security

What is a Society?

A group of people living together in an organized community with the same laws, traditions, and values.

What is an important thing to consider when making decisions related to contemporary issues?

Truth and Evidence

Define Suriin

Examine, Investigate, and Scrutinize

Define Mulat

Pay attention to, mindful of, knowledgeable of

What is Sociological Imagination?

The ability to see the relationship between a person's personal experiences and the society in which they live.

What are personal issues?

Issues that occur between a person and a few close to them.

The solution to a personal issue is in the hands of the ___

Individual

What are Social Issues?

Issues that affect not only one person but society as a whole.

Name a Suliraning Pangkapaligiran sa Pilipinas

Solid Waste, Pollution, and Deforestation

What is Solid Waste?

All waste from households, commercial, institutional, industrial, construction, surroundings, waste from the agricultural sector, and other non-hazardous/non-toxic Waste .

Based on ___, solid waste is

RA 9003

The Philippines is an archipelago of how many islands?

7,641

What is RA 9003?

Ecological Waste Management Act of 2000.

What is the purpose of the Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004 or RA 9275?

To protect water bodies in the country against pollution.

What is Deforestation?

Permanent and long-term depletion of forests.

A law on the management of land and land resources in the country

Presidential Decree 705 or Forestry Reform Code of the Philippines

Law intended to protect the forest.

Republic Act 7586 or National Integrated Protected Area System (NIPAS)

Law intended to protect, conserve, and manage caves and cave resources as part of the country's natural resources.

Republic Act 9072 or National Cave and Resources Management and Protection Act

Law that controls the ownership, possession, sale, import, and use of chainsaws to prevent them from being used in illegal logging or unauthorized deforestation.

Republic Act 9175 or Chainsaw Act of 2002

All logging in the country must cease under this law.

Executive Order No. 23 (2011)

What is Pagmimina(Mining)?

Process where land is dug to obtain mineral resources

This law controls the use and collection of minerals in the Philippines.

Republic Act 7942 or Philippine Mining Act of 1995

What is Climate Change?

Change in climate or weather due to the increase in greenhouse gases that heat the world.

Law mandating the creation of a Climate Change Commission that will be tasked to coordinate with Local Government Units or LGUs in making laws or policies related to climate change.

Republic Act 9729 or the Climate Change Act of 2009

RA 10771

Philippine Green Jobs Act of 2016