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WorksheetsFinal Exam in The Contemporary World
Total questions: 86
Worksheet time: 57mins
Which statement best defines sustainable development in the context of environmental crisis?
Resource extraction maximizing profits in the near term
Development meeting present needs without harming future needs
Rapid industrial growth regardless of ecological limits
Technological expansion prioritizing short-term economic gains
A community faces rising pollution and climate risks. Which action most aligns with sustainable practices that protect future generations?
Implement waste reduction and renewable energy adoption
Increase fossil fuel use to boost immediate growth
Expand single-use plastics for convenience
Delay environmental action to avoid current costs
Which is a direct example of air pollution’s impact?
Ocean currents spreading nutrients for fish
Tree loss increasing space for new housing
Dirty air from vehicles making breathing difficult
Recycling programs reducing landfill size
What practice describes deforestation?
Cutting down too many trees, destroying habitats
Planting diverse species to restore forests
Managing parks to protect endangered birds
Harvesting fruits without harming tree health
Which scenario illustrates water pollution?
Building wetlands to filter storm runoff
Treating wastewater to meet safety standards
Collecting rainwater for urban gardening
Dumping waste into rivers harms fish and people
Which option identifies a key feature of climate change?
Warming Earth leading to more extreme weather
Short cold spells during winter months
Seasonal monsoons supporting rice agriculture
Local wind variations around tall buildings
Which effect on humans is linked to environmental crises?
Increased sickness due to polluted environments
Lower stress from abundant green spaces
Enhanced respiratory capacity from clean air
Improved nutrition from diverse local crops
Which option best connects air pollution and human health?
Oxygen-rich forests cure chronic lung disease
Cloud cover shields citizens from smog entirely
Fine particulates make breathing more difficult
Fresh breezes eliminate urban allergens quickly
Which statement best defines sustainable development in everyday terms?
Expanding cities regardless of environmental impact
Growing and improving without harming nature
Stopping all development to protect nature
Using as many resources as possible quickly
You lead a campus initiative on sustainability. What first step is most strategic to build participation?
Plan activities without clear objectives
Purchase costly equipment immediately
Organize a short peer education session
Ignore student feedback and suggestions
A household aims to reduce its environmental footprint. Which balanced plan shows reasoning across energy, waste, and education?
Install LED bulbs, sort recyclables, host a neighbor workshop
Buy more gadgets, skip recycling, keep habits unchanged
Use extra water, burn waste, discourage discussions
Leave lights on, trash all plastics, avoid community outreach
Which type of content is shown: a list of external web sources used for lesson material or a detailed article on sustainable policies?
Infographic summarizing carbon footprints
Detailed article on sustainable policies
Dataset of emissions by country
External web sources used for lesson material
A topic page under ibm.com/think/topics/environmental-issues most likely offers what?
Personal travel diaries
Government policy treaties
Curated thought leadership articles
High school textbook chapters
The UN75 page titled climate-crisis-race-we-can-win most likely emphasizes which theme?
Private sector advertising
Collective action potential
Astronomy research updates
Local park schedules
When citing a Wikipedia page in academic work, what is a good practice to ensure reliability?
Replace with anonymous forum posts
Ignore edit history and talk pages
Assume all content is peer-reviewed
Verify citations within the article
In a professional reference list, why include both nonprofit and corporate sources?
To avoid open access materials
To meet advertising quotas
To provide diverse perspectives
To inflate the word count
Which URL likely provides student-friendly explanations and practice for environmental issues?
www.un.org/en/un75/climate-crisis-race-we-can-win
byjus.com/biology/environmental-issues-solutions
www.ibm.com/think/topics/environmental-issues
earth.org/the-biggest-environmental-problems-of-our-lifetime
A link labeled environmental-issues-solutions suggests the content will primarily cover which focus?
Astronomical phenomena descriptions
Historical literature critiques
Sports event calendars
Mitigation and remediation approaches
What is a common risk when relying solely on a single type of source for environmental research?
Guaranteed peer review status
Improved triangulation of data
Perspective bias and blind spots
Automatic access to raw datasets
In a reference list, what does a hyperlink with a descriptive slug (e.g., environmental-crises) help achieve?
Clarity of topic focus
Obfuscation of content
Restriction of access rights
Removal of metadata
Which item would be best used to define terms like ecological crisis in a study guide?
Earth.org problems list
IBM think leadership page
UN75 campaign page
Wikipedia overview page
When selecting sources for sustainable development topics, which combination strengthens validity?
Peer-reviewed summaries and reputable organizations
Anonymous blogs and unverified forums
Only corporate press releases
Exclusively student comment threads
Why might a teacher include Fiveable key terms in a Grade 13 lesson?
To reinforce vocabulary clarity
To discourage source evaluation
To replace all primary literature
To provide entertainment media
What was the main theme of the 16-year-old Nepali student Avishkar Raut’s speech?
Celebration of political stability
Discussion on education reforms
Call for youth-led change against corruption
Praise for government’s efforts
Which issue did Avishkar Raut specifically condemn during his speech?
Political parties' corruption and selfishness
Lack of internet access
Climate change
Foreign interference
What movement did Avishkar Raut’s speech help spark?
Religious reforms
A new education policy
Nepal’s youth-led protests and government changes
Economic partnership with the Philippines
How do many Gen Z Filipinos view the EDSA Revolution?
As a violent uprising to be forgotten
As irrelevant to their lives
As a legacy of democracy
As solely a political event
Which of the following best describes the tone of the Nepali student’s speech?
Indifferent and casual
Academic and dry
Nostalgic and calm
Hopeful and urgent
What was Avishkar Raut’s description of Nepal’s political situation?
Transparent and fair
Stable and growing
Corrupt and self-serving
Under foreign control
What type of market wherein the means of production are owned by private individuals and their desire to make a profit.
Free Market
Neoliberalism
Capitalism
Privatization
This claim in globalization pointed out that globalization did not happen overnight. It is a product of the ever increasing innovativeness of human spirit where humans cannot stop the development in technology and advancement in communication.
Globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world.
Globalization benefits everyone in the long run.
Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of markets.
Globalization is inevitable and irreversible.
What claim in globalization that believed that despite the disadvantages and advantages of globalization, we still find it useful and beneficial that makes our work easier.
Nobody is in charge of globalization.
Globalization benefits everyone in the long run.
Globalization is inevitable and irreversible.
Globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world.
This claim in globalization demolishes the traditional perspective that development can only be attained without the help of connections and trade.
Globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world.
Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of markets.
Globalization benefits everyone in the long run.
Globalization is inevitable and irreversible.
Refers to globalization with an aiming ideology of the powerful elite of the global north to deregulate markets.
Market Deregulation
Market Privatization
Market Globalization
Free Market
What type of globalization is concern on the proliferation of the digital divide and flow of goods and service in all parts of the world. This is also highly observable in today's time as it becomes the trend in the 21st century.
Technoscape
Ethnoscape
Mediascape
Ideoscape
What historical event in the world where Americans won the battle against Russia that led to the deregulation of trading?
World War I
World War II
Cold War
Soviet Union War
Meralco is now owned by a specific company to remove government's control and power. What ideology in globalization is being pointed on the situation?
Free trade
Free Market
Deregulation
Privatization
Landbank is currently a government owned bank, but recently, it has been reported to have collaboration with UCPB to slowly join force together. What is the aim of the given example?
Deregulation
Privatization
Integration
Intensification
These powerful elites do have high influence in passing a law as they are providing the sponsorship in accordance to their own benefits.
Corporate Managers
Corporation Lobbyists
Corporation Executives
Other prominent entities
Which is NOT a possible theory of Russian invasion on Ukraine?
Ukraine’s ambitions to align itself more with Western countries – including its publicly stated interest in joining NATO.
Russia’s ongoing tensions with North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The military conflict can be tied to a complicated history
Ukraine's membership in NATO.
Culture influences other culture, a phrase best described the _____
Cultural Imperialism
Media Imperialism
Homogeneity
Heterogeneity
refer to the people who have been accustomed (familiarize/comfortable) to digital technologies.
Digital Natives
laggard
Digital Immigrants
Is globalization important in a religious context?
Yes, because it helped them to evangelized people.
No, because religion believe that globalization is a creation of the devil.
Yes, because globalization create a wide range of opportunity.
It is called a channel of people, wherein it is used as a form of communication between
Mass Media
New Media
Social Network
Are the tangible objects like clothes we use, the infrastructures we build, and the things we create.
Material Culture
Culture
Media Cultures
It is the scientific study of determinants and consequences of human population trends
Malthusian Theory
Preindustrial Society
Demography
May refer to countries that are geographically in the northern hemisphere or to countries that are developed.
Regionalism
Global North
Global South
Match the cities and countries and its special statistical lead
Country with the highest number of immigrants
USA
Rank 4 most spoken language in USA
Tagalog
Worst Quality of life
Lagos, Nigeria
No. 1 country that can Enter USA without VISA
United Kingdom
The Kindest Country
New Zealand
Match the following
Papua New Guinea
Most number of languages
Brazil
Amazon Rainforest
Japan
Cherry Blossoms
Egypt
Pyramids
Australia
Great Barrier Reef
Match the following
China
2nd Most powerful country in the world
Denmark
The most least corrupt country
Russia
Largest country on earth
Iceland
safest country in the world
Luxembourg
Richest country
Match the following
Invented writing and the Wheel
Iraq
First Written Law System
Italy
First Satellite and Human in Space
Russia
First democracy and Western Philosophy
Greece
First on the Moon
United States
Why civilians in Israel carry guns in public?
What does this symbol stand for?
affordable and clean energy
sustainable cities and communities
climate action
life on land
Which is NOT an SDG goal?
Life below water
Reduced inequalities
Clean water and sanitation
Recycle innovations
This aims at doing more and better with less:
Responsible consumption and production
Life in land
Reduce inequalities
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
What does this SDG symbol mean?
reduced inequalities
equality between men and women
equity in wealth
life below water
Which of the following is not part of the Sustainable Development Goals?
Provision of decent jobs for all
Provision of clean water for all
Provision of internet services for all
Provision of sustainable energy for all
The concept of sustainable development has three pillars namely: social, environmental and _______ .
mental
human resources
economic
political
What are the 5P’s to measure the progress of the SDGs that highlight how the SDGs are an intertwined framework?
People, Planet, Practicality, Peace, Partnerships
People, Plants, Prosperity, Peace, Partnerships
People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, Partnerships
People, Planet, Principles, Peace, Partnerships
Which is NOT an aim of Sustainable Development Goals?
environmental protection
social inclusion
social exclusion
economic development
Who coined the term “globalization”?
Martin Albrow
Theodore Levitt
Thomas Larsso
Zygmunt Bauman
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Which of the following refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the contemporary world?
Solid
Liquid
Flows
Metaphor
Globalization
Which of the following explained the statement, “In global financial system, national borders are porous.”?
This means that a financial crisis in a given country can bring ramifications to other regions of the world.
This means that globalization have a big impact towards the economy and political aspect from one country to another
This refers on how the each country can make more ways to generate income and export more products to have a better economy.
This refers that a financial crisis will always be a problem and it will never be solve by one instead it will be solve through a good conditioning from other country.
All of these
What is regionalization according to Hurrell?
It is a group of countries in the same geographically specified area.
It is the formal process of intergovernmental collaboration between two or more states.
It is the increased flows of goods, services, capital, people and information across borders.
It is a societal integration and the often undirected process of social and economic interaction.
All of these
Which of the following BEST describes Economic Globalization?
It improves the efficiency of enterprises and plays a great role in increasing the size of the economy of every country.
It improves living standard and level of education of people. It also lays the material basis for the development of education.
It reflects the continuing expansion and mutual integration of market frontiers, and is an irreversible trend for the economic development in the whole world at the turn of the millennium.
It refers to the increasing interdependence of world economies as a result of the growing scale of cross-border trade of commodities and services, flow of international capital, and wide and rapid spread of technologies.
None of these
What is considered as greatest contributor on the extreme poverty?
Unemployment
Over Population
Out of school youth
a. Economic Globalization
Outdated educational system
Match the key terms and their definitions from our last lesson on 'Sustainable urban planning in Freiburg'.
Sustainable development
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations.
Brownfield site
Development on existing sites that have become disused or in need of improvement.
Waste management
The collection, transportation, handling, disposal and reuse of human waste.
Energy conservation
Finding methods of providing green energy, reducing energy use and infrastructure energy efficient
Grey water
Any domestic wastewater produced, excluding sewage. Can be reused for things like gardening.
Where in Germany is Freiburg?
North-east
North-west
South-west
South-east
What do you call the cable that is laid on the ocean connecting every country in the world through internet?
Fiber Optic
Why do we need to e critical in identifying fake news and off tangent to our Filipino values in social in social media and in real life?
(a)
What is the latest research in Israel?
Evil karma
Systemic racisms
3D printing in living human organs
legalizing firearms
Who said this line; " I believe that this universe came from something, God is the Creator"
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk
Isaac Newton
Who is Babaylan?
Why do Filipino feared about Polo y Servicio?
What do you think is the Global message of this line, "You are responsible, If you know there is wrong in the government system, do not wait for others, you do it and the rest will follow".
Who was the Filipino sniper under US Army who make difficult for the 400 German army during the Operation Overload?
Pvt Ramon Subijano
Who was the deadliest Filipino Fighter Pilot of the World War II?
Which of the following statements bring forth a message of " Stop expecting your Teachers to spoon feed you"?
"The world does not care about you". What do you mean?
Which of the following is the message for us about the 8-year-old Wang Fuman who is also called "Ice Boy" who walk 3 Miles in freezing weather for his eam?
Reorder the following
Believe before you pray
Listen before you speak
Think before you write
Earn before you spend
Try before you quit
Which among the advantages IS NOT present in a female driver?
Which of the following is a significant consequence of deforestation on global ecosystems?
Enhanced carbon sequestration
Loss of habitat for countless species
Increased biodiversity
Improved air quality
Which term describes the phenomenon where developed countries exploit resources from developing nations?
Fair Trade
Economic Partnership
Global Trade
Resource Colonialism
What is the insight you have gained from the course " The Contemporary World?
