Global Issues

Which describes a society or cultural region?

• Better healthcare and better economy encourage people to move.

• Negative events causing people to move away

• People living in an area that share the same language, religion, and common geographic features.

• Countries trading goods to improve the economy.

Taking existing elements of a society and creating something new to meet a need is called what?

• innovation

• creation

• culture

• diffusion

Culture is spread by...

• War and conquest

• Movement of people

• TV and Internet

• All are correct

Cultural diffusion is best described as...

• the spreading of religion

• Cultural margarine

• the spreading of ideas, languages, and traditions from one culture to another

• sharing music from one culture to another

The atmosphere is a system, where a change in one part of the atmosphere will cause affects in other parts of the atmosphere.

• True

• False

The Greenhouse Effect __________________________.

• Traps all of the heat from the Sun

• only works in the summer months

• Repels sunlight away from the atmosphere

• Traps some heat and releases some heat back to space

Natural causes of climate change include all of the following except:

• movement of the continents

• major volcanic eruptions

• the Sun's energy output

• human activity

___ is the average long-term (30+ years) atmosphere conditions for a specific region. It includes temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds.

• Weather

• Climate

• Forecast

• Global Warming

Starting with the ________________ in the late 1800s, human activities have increased planetary warming.

• Building of the Sagamore and Bourne

• Industrial Revolution

• Cultural Revolution

• Revolutionary War

During the Covid-19 lockdown in Spring 2020, satellite images and scientific data collected from global weather stations showed a temporary _______________ in smog, pollution, and contribution to planetary warming.

• increase

• decrease

• the same

• standstill