End of Term SST Exam

Question 1

What is integration?

Answer 1

Integration is the movement of groups into the mainstream of societies- trying your best to blend into another culture while maintaining your own

Question 2

What is asylum seeking?

Answer 2

Asylum seeking is a person who has fled their country into another country but is not yet accepted as a refugee. Refugees and asylum seekers are not the same.

Question 3

What is a refugee?

Answer 3

A refugee is one who flees in search of refuge, usually in times of war or because of political issues, religious issues, poverty or natural disasters.

Question 4

What are obstacles?

Answer 4

An obstacle is something that opposes, stands in the way or holds up progress.

Question 5

What are pull factors?

Answer 5

Pull factors are factors that attract and pull the individual towards another place or country.

Question 6

What is a push factor?

Answer 6

A push factor is a factor that encourages/pushes individuals to move away from their home, into another country.

Question 7

What is voluntary migration?

Answer 7

Voluntary migration is the relocation of individuals based solely on personal desires. Those who voluntarily migrate often do so because of economic reasons or are searching for a better life.

Question 8

What is multiculturalism?

Answer 8

Multiculturalism is the continuation of different cultures within a society/country.

Question 9

What is assimilation?

Answer 9

Assimilation is the blending or fusing of smaller groups into the dominant society

Question 10

Emmigration

Answer 10

The movement of people out of a country

Question 11

Immigration

Answer 11

The movement of people into a country

Question 12

Chain migration

Answer 12

When one family member moves and another one follow

Question 13

Seasonal migration

Answer 13

Moving based on seasons

Question 14

Intra urban

Answer 14

Movement from a town/city into another

place inside that town/city

Question 15

Northward drift

Answer 15

When people move north- very common for people in the north island

Question 16

Inter urban

Answer 16

Moving from one town or city into another town and city

Question 17

What is sustainability?

Answer 17

Not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and supporting the environment long term.

Question 18

What are renewable resources?

Answer 18

A renewable resource is a substance that can be replaced in the same amount or less time as it takes to draw the supply down.

Question 19

What are non-renewable resources?

Answer 19

A nonrenewable resource is a resource that cannot be replaced as fast as it’s being consumed.

Question 20

What is climate change?

Answer 20

A change in global or climate patterns, attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric gases.

Question 21

What is the greenhouse effect?

Answer 21

The greenhouse effect is a the trapping of the sun’s warmth in Earth’s atmosphere. It is caused by heat-trapping gases in the air that trap energy from the sun.

Question 22

What are greenhouse gases?

Answer 22

Greenhouse gases are heat-trapping gases, that are the reason for the greenhouse effect . The most common greenhouse gases are water vapour, carbon dioxide, and methane.

Question 23

What are social impacts?

Answer 23

Social impacts are the effect something has on a community, and people’s daily lives
.

Question 24

What are economic impacts?

Answer 24

Economic impacts are the effects that an event can have on economic factors such as interest rates, personal income, or employment.

Question 25

What is an environmental impact?

Answer 25

An environment impact is the effect something has on the environment. This effect could be created by an industry, natural disaster, or a project- anything that affects the environment.

Question 26

What is collective responsibility?

Answer 26

Collective responsibility is the responsibility of every member of a group without regard to an individual member’s participation in decision making
.

Question 27

What is globalisation?

Answer 27

Globalisation is the process when businesses develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Question 28

What is subsistence?

Answer 28

Subsistence is when only enough food and other necessary items are obtained, without which, you wouldn’t be able to exist. Subsistence fishing is eating only enough fish to keep you alive.

Question 29

Who is responsible for climate change?

Answer 29

No one in particular is responsible for climate change. Even though some of the larger countries contribute more harmful gases into the atmosphere then the smaller ones, everyone emits pollution, so we should all be held responsible.

Question 30

What events can have an economic impact?

Answer 30

Events like supply shortages or natural disasters can have a significant economic impact due to the way that they affect business activities.

Question 31

What does FACKTS stand for?

Answer 31

Frame, Arrow, Colour, Key, Title, Scale

Question 32

How do you find the scale on the map?

Answer 32

Remember that Australia is 4000 kilometres across. From there measure and find out how many cm/mm across it is on the map (i.e if on the map it’s 2cm, then the scale would be 1cm= 2,000km). Scale the rest of the map accordingly.

Question 33

What did we learn about in Traditional Resource Use?

Answer 33

We learnt about Western Samoa and how their traditional fishing methods are damaging coral. They have now adapted their ways to ensure that they are not harming the coral by using a harpooning technique instead of one that involves breaking off coral.

Question 34

What did we learn in Sustainable Business?

Answer 34

We learnt about the fishing industry and in particular, Tuna. Many companies are over fishing, meaning that there is less and less Tuna. The most tuna that was caught, it was caught in international waters, because since there isn’t one country to govern it, it’s easier to illegally fish.

Question 35

What did we learn in Our Changing Climate (Greenhouse Effect)?

Answer 35

We learnt that the levels of carbon dioxide and other gases, are readily increasing, which is leading to the Greenhouse Effect. As Earth’s atmosphere warms up, so does the ice caps, which in turn leads to other problems such as a rise of sea level (flooding) and a rise of sea temperature (damaging marine life).

Question 36

What did we learn in Climate Change in the Pacific (case Study: Kiribati)?

Answer 36

We learnt that Pacific Nations are very vulnerable to climate change. The consequences of climate change (rise of sea level, rise of sea temp) affects the Pacific Nations the most as shown in flooding and receding land. In particular we focused on Kiribati and how they are faced with similar problems including cultural extinction.

Question 37

What did we learn in Climate Change in the Pacific (case Study: Projected Change in NZ)?

Answer 37

We learnt that, while NZ isn’t getting th most damage from climate change, it is still facing problems. We learnt that the whole of the North island has the same temperature while in the South Island, the further South, the hotter temperatures.

Question 38

Define- human rights

Answer 38

A right which belongs to every human being.

Question 39

Define- globalisation

Answer 39

The process by which businesses or other organisations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Question 40

Define- exploitation

Answer 40

The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.

Question 41

Define- consumption

Answer 41

The action of using up a resource

Question 42

Define- industrialisation

Answer 42

The process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods (manual labor replaced by mechanized mass production).

Question 43

Define- developing countries

Answer 43

A poor agricultural country that is seeking to become more advanced economically and socially.

Question 44

Define- developed countries

Answer 44

A sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other non-developed countries.

Question 45

Define- perspectives

Answer 45

A different point of view or opinion expressed by different individual’s.

Question 46

Define- social impacts

Answer 46

The effect an organization’s actions have on the well being of the community

Question 47

Define- population change

Answer 47

The difference between the size of the population at the end and the beginning of a period.

Question 48

Name four Asian countries with populations above 50 million

Answer 48

China, Japan, Russia, Indonesia, Bangladesh

Question 49

Name four Asian countries with populations of 5 to 10 million

Answer 49

Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos.

Question 50

What is the equator?

Answer 50

An imaginary line on the Earth’s surface equal distance from the North Pole and South Pole, dividing the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere.

Question 51

List 5-10 positive effects of sweatshops

Answer 51

1. Employers get paid money to survive on- however little pay, it’s a lot for their country
2. Sweatshops are the economic stepping-stone for undeveloped countries
3. Work at sweatshops are better than most other jobs (like hard labour)
4. Sweatshops reduce the amount of women going into prostitution
5. Much cheaper way for companies and consumers to buy cloth

Question 52

List 5-10 negative effects of sweatshops

Answer 52

1. Employers discriminate against the workers human rights
2. Bad conditions at the workshop
3. Paid a very small amount
4. Bad working hours
5. Factories are not ventilated
6. Employees are abused
7. Usually no toilets or emergency exits
8. Companies violate minimum wage laws
9. Child labor is sometimes involved.
10. Employers can easily fire their workers at any time (with or without pay)

Question 53

How do sweatshops increase globalisation?

Answer 53

Sweatshops increase globalisation by becoming an economic stepping stone for non developed or developing countries, such as China and Singapore. Sweatshops are increasing globalisation by giving China and other entrepreneurs increasing interdependence with the world and a chance to start a company and workers a chance to work in a factory rather than hard labour such as working on the farm with cheap labour bringing international business to them.

Question 54

What is one human right that sweatshops are discriminating against?

Answer 54

“We have a right to be treated fairly and by the law”

“We have a right to rest and play”

Question 55

What is the name of the type of map that uses colour to show statistics?

Answer 55

Chloropleth Map

Question 56

When was China’s one child policy started?

Answer 56

1979-1980

Question 57

Define sweatshops

Answer 57

A factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.

Question 58

What is another country’s (other than China) population policy?

Answer 58

Singapore- because of Singapore’s declining birth rate, Singapore implemented a population policy. The policy was called the ‘Pro Child Policy’. The policy worked like this- if you had one child you get up to $10,000 cash reward from the government. After two children you get up to $12,000, and from the third child and up you get approximately $18,000. Singapore also created a rap video with Mentos called ‘National Night’ that also supported baby-making and encouraged couples to have a child. All these strategy’s were put in place because of Singapore’s dealing birth rate. The main cause in the birth rate going down is because managing work and home routines are stressful and expensive enough, without the added cost of an expensive child. Consequences of Singapore’s dealing birth rate is the decrease or standstill of economic growth because since there are less people being born, there are also less people who can contribute to the growth of Singapore’s economy by being employed in jobs.

Question 59

What are some ways consumers can help?

Answer 59

• Buy sweatshop free brands (certified)
• Use the media to get through a message
• Use petitions or tv advertisements
• Use the public force to demand sweatshop free products
• Or just buy less.

Question 60

Define- consumerism

Answer 60

The protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.