Quiz 4

Question 1

Explain how culture affects how people interact with each other.

Question 2

Explain how culture affects how people interact with their physical environment.

Question 3

How does culture affect the way people interact with their environment?

Answer 3

Cultural values affect what is deemed important, and thus they affect how things are built and how the land is shaped.

Question 4

How might learning about another culture change how you view the world?

Answer 4

You would understand how other cultures function, and learn to respect their customs.

Question 5

How does culture affect the way people interact with each other?

Answer 5

Culture frames our attitudes for dealing with each other. It includes such questions as whether time or the person is more important, whether the task or the person takes precedence, or whether a person will reveal his inadequacy or hide it.

Question 6

Explain how a nation’s government affects how people interact with their physical environment to preserve and conserve resources.

Answer 6

by locking up land from development and by allowing or not allowing certain industries to operate

Question 7

What does the Bible say about the role of government in society?

Answer 7

God instituted human government :
To ensure justice
To provide for defense and public safety
To promote morality
To provide a framework for addressing poverty
To provide order

Question 8

How does a nation’s government affect the way people interact with each other to promote justice and to preserve and conserve resources?

Answer 8

When no form of governing authority exists and people are doing whatever they want, a state of anarchy results.

Question 9

How do governments of different nations affect each other?

Answer 9

A nation’s type of government is influenced by culture. Different cultures

Question 10

What is an autocracy?

Answer 10

A government where one individual rules

Question 11

A dictatorship

Answer 11

can have more than one person ruling, usually by the authority of the military.

Question 12

A theocracy

Answer 12

an authoritarian system of government in which the clergy rule and claim that their authority comes from deity

Question 13

oligarchy

Answer 13

a small group of people holding ultimate authority.

Question 13

democracy

Answer 13

often used to describe elected governments

Question 14

How does a nation’s economy affect the way people interact with their physical environment?

Answer 14

The wealthier the nation, the more concern it can have for the environment.

Question 15

What is capitalism?

Question 16

Why might being in a different culture cause discomfort and confusion?

Answer 16

You would not understand the rules and customs of that culture and not know how to act. People in a different culture will break the rules of your culture, which might anger you.

Question 17

What are some of the differences between high-context and low-context cultures?

Answer 17

High-context cultures rely on body language, a person’s status, and tone of voice to communicate. Low-context cultures depend on the actual words being said to communicate.

Question 18

What is the main difference between a pure democracy
and a republic?

Answer 18

Pure democracy—every citizen votes on every law; republic—the people elect representatives to vote on laws for them and may voice their opinions and even run for office.

Question 19

Why do some political boundaries lead to conflict?

Answer 19

Political boundaries are arbitrary and are sustained only when both nations have equivalent military power to prevent invasion. However, if one of the countries becomes militarily weak, conflict often results when the stronger nation crosses the boundary and seizes land from its weaker neighbor.

Question 20

Capitalism

Answer 20

an economic system in which private individuals own most of the factors of production and make most economic decisions.

Question 21

Command democracy

Answer 21

the government determines which industries are developed, where they are built, and what they produce.

Question 22

Socialism

Answer 22

the government owns the major industries and promises to make production decisions for the welfare of society.

Question 23

The economic strength of Highly Developed Countries:

Answer 23

have advanced infrastructure and industrialization.

Question 24

The Economic strength of Newly Industrialized Countries:

Answer 24

have transitioned from primarily agricultural industries to goods-producing industries.

Question 25

The Economic Strength of Developing Countries:

Answer 25

have a lower per capita GDP, and their economies are primarily based on agriculture.

Question 26

How does globalization affect jobs in developed and newly industrialized nations?

Answer 26

It causes manufacturing jobs to move to other parts of the world. Globalization provides low-skill manufacturing jobs.

Question 27

Why might a totalitarian state object to its people having access to the internet?

Answer 27

When people who have their lives controlled see via the internet how others live in freedom, they will desire that freedom.

Question 28

What is the main difference between capitalism and socialism?

Answer 28

Capitalism is based on free trade; socialism is based on redistributed wealth.

Question 29

What is GDP, and how does it differ from per capita GDP?

Answer 29

GDP is the monetary value of all the goods and services produced for sale within a country’s borders over the course of a year. Per capita GDP is the value of products divided by the number of persons living in a country.

Question 30

Demography

Answer 30

The study of human populations and their characteristics

Question 31

Population Distribution

Answer 31

used to describe where people choose to live.

Question 32

What four statistics are used to compute the rate of increase of a population?

Answer 32

birth rate, death rate, immigration rate, and emigration rate

Question 33

What does a population pyramid illustrate?

Answer 33

It shows the population numbers of a country differentiated by gender and age.

Question 34

How do a country’s demographics affect the way the people interact with each other—the difference between rural and urban?

Answer 34

In urban areas, people have less connection to their extended family and to their traditional religion. In rural areas people maintain a more traditional way of life.

Question 35

Natural Borders

Answer 35

Borders such as oceans, mountains, rivers, or deserts

Question 36

Geometric Borders

Answer 36

A boundary usually drawn as a straight line to connect specific points or to follow a line of latitude or longitude