Lesson 2.2: Locating South

Question 1

Is a socio-economic and political categorization of countries

Answer 1

North-South Divide

Question 2

Is a metaphor for interstate inequality and a product of Western imagination

Answer 2

North-South Divide

Question 3

the core, the semi periphery, and the peripheries

Answer 3

World System Theory

Question 4

comprised of all First World countries

Answer 4

North

Question 5

comprised of Third World countries.

Answer 5

South

Question 6

This refers to countries that were colonized by the Spaniards in the American continent

Answer 6

Latin America

Question 7

The Cold War between US and USSR created the division between the Capitalist/Democratic states and Communist
states.

Answer 7

World division during the Cold war

Question 8

refers to thesocio-economic and political divide primarily focused on the southern hemisphere

Answer 8

Global South

Question 9

regions outside Europe and North America, mostly (though not all) low-income and often politically or
culturally marginalized
.

Answer 9

Third World” and “Periphery

Question 10

is the home of all members of the Group of Eight (G8) - USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, Russia.

Answer 10

Global North

Question 11

It also refers to the developed countries in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

Answer 11

Global North