What we need to know for Semester Tests.
1. Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the world.
-Capitalism- is where goods can be privatly or corpatly owned - the people have freedom to own the goods
-Communism- very similar to socialism where the government controls everything
-Socialism- the government controls everything
-Fascism-
-Dictatorship- one person rules everything ( Saddam Hussein )
-Democracy- government by the people and elected represenatives
-Republic - people are allowed to vote
-Anarchy- No ruler or government
2. Students will understand the differences between the major political parties in the United States.
-Democrats are more liberal and Republicans are more conservative
-Democrats look more twards the greater good of the welfare of the people
-Republicans hold economic equity on top than any other thing
3. Students will understand the causes and effects of global warming.
-coal burning plants release enourmous amounts of carbon dioxide into the air as do cars
-deforestation for space for new homes taking away animal habitats as well as the use of tropical plants for shampoos and hair prouducts
-increase the usage of chemical fertilizers on crop lands
-sea levels rising because of ice melting in Antartica and Greenland
-more killer storms
-crop failures because of climate change
-animals going extinct because of rising tempatures
-coral reefs dissapearing because of increased tempratures and ocean acidification
4. Students will understand the causes and effects of overpopulation.
- decline in death rate and increase in birth rate
- lack of education
- migration
5. Students will understand the impact of globalization.
- means that everyone in the world can share in the same prouducts that the rich countries have
- the disadvanteges are not every countries money is valued the same and not every country has the same democracy that we do so it could start more riots
- people in rich countries might take advantege of a work force in another country so they can have cheep labor
6. Be able to locate the countries of Latin America.
7. Students will be able to explain their understanding of recent current events(Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia, North/South Korea). Need to know 4/7.
- Afganistan
- we are over there to help Iraq create some form of government
- they came from a dictatorship so they dont know how to act like a country because their dictator Saddam Hussein was captured
-Darfur
- genocide has been happening in Darfur which is in the western part of Sudan
- the United States has apointed a person to help in peace making
- as of last night 300,000 people have died and over 3 million people have been driven from their homes
-Rwanda
- genocide between the hutus and tutsie people
- 800,000 people were killed
- had id cards to tell if they were hutus or tutsie
-North/South Korea
- both of the countries are waiting for the other one to attack first
- north korea seems to be the country that starts it even though both of them deny that they started the fight
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