9.1 Advances in Technology and Exchange

Question 1

Starting in the 1900’s, what brought news, music, and entertainment to a wide range of people around the the world

Answer 1

The radio

Question 2

These large standard-sized units allowed efficient movement of goods around the world by truck, train, or ship

Answer 2

Shipping containers

Question 3

Arab Spring

Answer 3

A series of antigovernment protests that spread from country to country across North Africa and the Middle East

Question 4

The Green Revolution

Answer 4

Agricultural solutions for world hunger

Question 5

Crossbreeding of plants created what?

Answer 5

Hybrid plants

Question 6

Genetic Engineering

Answer 6

Manipulating a cell or organism to change its characteristics

Question 7

What was the world’s first produced antibiotic?

Answer 7

Penicillin

Question 8

Overuse and misuse of antibiotics can create what?

Answer 8

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Question 9

Development of the birth control bill and access to other forms of birht control led to a declien in what during the second half of the 1900s?

Answer 9

global fertility rates

Question 10

Vaccines are responsible for the 1980’s eradication of what disease that previously caused disfigurement and death?

Answer 10

smallpox

Question 11

In the second half of the 1900s, this made movement of people around the Earth much more accessible

Answer 11

air travel