Unit 6 Managing Resources & Sustainability Review

Which impact best completes the chart?

• cultural divergence

• creation of dictatorships

• decline in international trade

• cultural convergence

What's a positive impact technology has had on society?

• Technology has made it possible for companies to move to automation

• Technology has allowed medicine to improve, thus allowing people to live longer

• technology has increased pollution

• none of the above

Based on the reading, what has contributed the most to deforestation?

• Development of new technology

• Globalization and government policies

• Urbanization and an increase in the standard of living

• Migration to the Amazon from other Central American countries

According to the graph above, what impact has globalization had on global trade?

• Globalization has decreased global exports

• Globalization has increased global imports and exports

• Exports were higher before before globalization in the 1900s

• Exports lowered after 1950

China’s Three Gorges Dam is the largest in the world. It has many supporters and

critics. In terms of how it might affect her work, a factory owner might support the dam mainly because it ----

• created a reservoir some 400 miles long

• improved irrigation to agricultural areas

• forced millions of people to relocate to new areas

• improved the reliability of electricity throughout China

For the United Sates, one benefit of encouraging the development of renewable

sources of energy is ---

• a reduction in the cost of energy

• less reliance on foreign sources of oil

• increased mining of domestic stores of fossil fuels

• heavy reliance on resources that are replaced by artificial processes

A group of city residents is against a proposal to build a large apartment complex for university students in a residential neighborhood made up mainly of families. To express their views, they are most likely to attend a –

• city council meeting

• committee meeting of state representatives

• session of U.S. Congress

• gatherings of delegates from the United Nations

A subsistence farmer in the Amazon River basin in Brazil practices slash-and-burn

farming. Where is he most likely to locate his crops?

• Near a road for easy access to markets

• Near a city for easy access to equipment

• Near his home for easy access to his fields

• Near the forest for easy access to newly cleared land

The European Union (EU) was created mainly to----

• build a strong military

• promote economic growth

• prevent religious persecution

• protect environmental interests

Voting for the president of the United States occurs once every four years. Among the

voters at a small-town election center is an elderly woman who was born before the

1920 passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. She

tells the local election official that she has not missed voting in a presidential election

since she turned 21 years old in 1939. How would the woman’s voting habits be

characterized?

• As an expression of nationalism

• As being similar to international women’s rights

• As a public policy that can be changed at any time

• As part of a decision-making process affecting national policies