CW: TEST ON THE INTRODUCTION, Sept. 28-29
REVIEW:
These questions provide a framework for test preparation. Answer them (in point form) using your notes, textbook and booklet. Refer to text pages: 4 (world map); 8-13 (left-right spectrum, economic systems); 152-153 (classification of countries); 23-25 (globalisation, mass media).
1. Label a blank world map: 7 continents, 4 major oceans, the countries from your booklet (including NK & Saudi Arabia). Print the map provided below; label it to study if you don't know it yet.
2. Complete this sentence: "An ideology is….
3. What does it mean to be politically, economically and socially "on the
left," "on the
right" or "in the
centre"? Give an example to illustrate each.
4. List characteristics of a democracy and dictatorship. Provide a current example of each (
not Canada or the U.S.A.).
5. Explain what is meant by the classifications of countries: developed, developing and least developed country. Provide current examples and characteristics for each.
6. What is the HDI? What is the GDP? Why or how are these used to classify countries?
7. Explain globalization by discussing characteristics.
8.What are the causes of globalization?
9. Discuss three ways that the global economy has been impacted by globalisation.
10. What is a "multinational" corporation? What does "outsourcing" mean? Why do MNCs outsource?
11. How are cultures affected by globalization?
12. What does the term "media" mean? What are the two functions (or roles) of media?
13. Are newspapers and the internet reliable sources of information? Discuss.
14. What challenges do journalists face?
15. Why is it important to question all that we see, read or hear through media sources?
FE:
Try: "What
kind of consumer are you?"
