My test is Monday at 1:25-1:35
1. Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the world.
2. Students will understand the differences between the major political parties in the United States.
3. Students will understand the causes and effects of global warming.
4. Students will understand the causes and effects of overpopulation.
5. Students will understand the impact of globalization.
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).
1. The different governments:
Anarchy-there is no government or laws
Monarchy-supreme power held by a single person or kind and queen
Constitutional Monarchy-when the monarchs power is limited by a constitution
Absolute Monarchy-when the monarch has absolute control over every aspect of life
Communism-where there is a leader that gives everybody equal money and land
Capitalism-businesses are privately owned and the government depends on supply and demand
Representative Democracy-the people have somewhat of a say in who leads them--they vote on representatives to choose for them.
Direct Democracy-the people by themselves make decisions and vote
Socialism-the government owns all businesses
Dictatorship-the country is dictated by one leader
2. Two major political parties-Republican and Democratic
here are some examples of the disagreements between the two-
Immigration-Republicans want stricter laws on immigration, whereas democrats want more open borders
Abortion-Democrats support abortion rights while republicans want to end abortion completely
Flag burning-Republicans want to support the flag and what it means, but democrats believe in freedom of speech
3. Causes and effects of global warming
there are many different sides when it comes to global warming-some people believe humans are causing it and some don't even believe it exists!
to those who know it's happening--Global warming has many different causes. Carbon dioxide and other kinds of air pollution are getting caught in the earth's atmosphere, trapping the sun's heat, and basically warming the planet.
It also has its disastrous effects. aside from Earth generally being a hotter place, the air and water has become dirtier, floods, droughts, wild fires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters become ten times worse than they were before.
Luckily, people are always coming up with new ways to save energy (electric cars, wind turbines, etc.)
4. Overpopulation
My group presented this topic on the hot flat and crowded project-
Overpopulation can be caused by a number of things happening all at once. for example, if less people die while more are being born and migration is becoming more popular, you win a heavy reward-overpopulation. it could also add to the damage if a family doesn't have a great knowledge of what they're doing to they're country, or just plain lack of planning. Sometimes these things happen on accident.
Effects of overpopulation-when you have too many people, all of the sudden there isn't enough food to go around. And then the countries around you run out and can't even help. When this happens, you get starvation. Not fun.
The book definition of overpopulation is when an organism's numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat. This means that since there isn't enough room for everyone, people have to expand out and find new places to live. This could mean chopping down a forest filled with animal inhabitants for houses. Not very fair for the animals. How would you like it if i came to take away YOUR home???
5. Globalization
Globalization is the way technology slowly takes over the every day life style-the world is becoming smaller because of how people can communicate faster than ever before. The flat world-people will lose their jobs over silly things like how a burger is cheaper in Asia than it is here. Children will have a difficult time getting jobs just because China has more honor students than the U.S. has students. We may be number one now, but not for much longer!
6. Latin America map quiz-know the countries and get an A!!(:
7. Current Events
Iraq-in 2003 we invaded Iraq because we had reason to believe that they had weapons of mass destruction-we were very sadly mistaken and have been at war trying to get them a stable government so that it won't be ruled by terrorists
Afghanistan-in 2001 we were under attack by terrorists so the government sent over troops to rid the place of terrorist groups and restore order to the government
Iran- Iran is making more uranium which could only lead to nuclear weapons-needless to say, we are quite concerned
Darfur-The Darfur Conflict is an ongoing battle between rebel groups and the Sudanese police and military. SLM and JEM accused the government of destroying black Africans in favor of the Arabs back in 2003
Rwanda- a country in Africa that was split into two groups-the hutus and the tutsies. The hutus blamed the tutsis for blowing up the hutu leader's plane when in reality, the hutus blew it up because they didnt want a monarch government. this lead to a mass killing of approximately 800,000 people
Somalia- Somalia is a place where there is little safety-it is overrun by terrorists and pirates and other miscellaneous thieves. People have tried to make a government, but no one will listen. The mess is a complete anarchy
North/South Korea-North Korea recently decided they were still at war and attacked South Korea. the two countries have been "at war" since 1950. The U.S. hasn't done much about it yet because we're still waiting for them to figure it out themselves...hm.
Thats my semester blog. It's a lot. Good study guide though(:
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