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UNIT III A WORLD OF REGIONS

Unit Test:
G. Identification. Answer the following item by supplying the correct answer on
the blank.

__________1.This describes the decentralization of competencies or the establishment

of regional institutions by the state.
__________2.They are largely characterized as poor and underdeveloped. In these
countries, low levels of education, poor infrastructure, improper sanitation
and poor access to health care mean living conditions are seen
as inferior to those in the world's more developed nations.
__________3.This is the term for colonies in the Asia pacific and South Asia influenced
the West and vice versa.
__________4.It includes some of the world’s most economically developed states such
as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, and highly impoverished
countries such as Cambodia, Laos, and Nepal.
__________5.This aims to develop and maintain cooperation with outside actors. This
is meant to resolve the tension between the rise of regional trade
agreements and the push for global trade as embodied by World Trade
Organization (WTO).
__________6.This is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of
trade between nations.
__________7.This refers to these countries' "interconnected histories
of colonialism, neo-imperialism, and differential economic and social
change through which large inequalities in living standards, life
expectancy, and access to resources are maintained.
__________8.They occupy different positions in their respective societies as well as in
relation to their nation-states as they constitute the expanding regional
consumer market.
__________9.They were created through growth in retail trade, manufacture, banking,
real estate development, and an expanding range of specialist services
such as accounting, advertising, computing, and market research.
__________10.This is a foreign policy shift was implemented by the United States to
commit more resources and attention to the region.

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H. True or False. Identify whether the statement is correct or not. Write True if it is
correct, False if not. Underline the what makes the statement incorrect, then
provide the corrections. (2 points each)

__________1.Contemporary critics of neo-liberal globalization use the north devides as

a banner to rally countries victimized by the violent economic cures of
institutions like the International Monetary Fund.
__________2.The Second World described countries whose views aligned with NATO
and capitalism, and the Third World referred to countries
that supported communism and the Soviet Union.
__________3.The ills of the global south are being globalized.
__________4.The strongest vehicle for social redistribution and the main mechanism
for social transfer is regionalism.
__________5.Spaces of underdevelopment in developed countries may mirror the
poverty of the global south, and spaces of affluence mirror those of the
global north.
__________6.The global in global south does not only mean that the south is the globe
but also signifies that the south has attained high globalization.
__________7.Globalization is the intensification of economic, political, social, and
cultural relations across borders and a consciousness of that
intensification, with a concomitant diminution in the significance of
territorial boundaries
__________8. Globalization in the Asia Pacific and South Asia is an external
phenomenon being pushed into the region by world powers like Grater
Asia and the Americas.
__________9.The global south is not relevant for those who live in countries
traditionally associated with it but also signifies that the south continues
to be globalized.

__________10.Regionalism refers to the centralization of political powers or

competencies from a higher towards a lower political level.

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UNIT IV A WORLD OF IDEAS

Unit Test:
J. Identification. Answer the following item by supplying the correct answer on
the blank.

__________1.This is a syllabary and alphabet illustrates the development of information

processing to deal with larger amounts of data in ever greater abstraction.

__________2.This refers to how most national media systems have become more
internationalized, becoming more open to outside influences, both in their
content and in their ownership and control.

__________3.They may include television, radio, internet, fax, CD-ROMs, DVD,

and any other medium that requires electricity or digital encoding of
information.

__________4.This is considered the most important media influencing

globalization.

__________5.This is humankind’s principal technology for collecting, manipulating,

storing, retrieving, communicating and disseminating information.

__________6.This is a term that expresses the idea that people throughout the world
are interconnected through the use of new media technologies.

__________7.Who coined the term global village?

__________8.This is defined as the umbrella category which various types of

traditional and non Western music are produced for Western
consumption.

__________9.Of all forms of media, this is considered the oldest and most enduring.

__________10.This is a device that allows for the mass production of uniform

printed matter, mainly text in the form of books, pamphlets and
newspapers.

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K. True or False. Identify whether the statement is correct or not. Write True if it is
correct, False if not. Underline the what makes the statement incorrect, then
provide the corrections. (2 points each)

__________1.Written and orderly arrangement of documents pertaining to religious,

cultural, economic and religious practices are done through script for
dissemination to other places.
__________2.The introduction of cellphones was a defining moment in
globalization.
__________3.Lands and culture were learned by people through rituals.
__________4.The term electronic media is often used in reference to print media.
__________5.Music participates in the reinforcing of boundaries of culture and
identity.
__________6.On going globalization processes such as economic, political, and
cultural are revolutionized by a host of new media in the beginning
of the 19th century.
__________7.The change in popular music is not the outcome of globalization but
rather popular music industry is a part of globalization phenomena.
__________8.In the 20th century, the only available mass media in remote villages
was the radio while film was soon developed as an artistic medium
for great cultural expression.
__________9.Human ability to move from one place to another and to adapt to a new
and different environment are facilitated by the sharing of information of
other peoples.
__________10.The following are the companies involved in globalization:
Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook.

L. Essay.
2. Explain briefly.
A. Globalization and Media (3 points each)
a. Oral Communication

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UNIT V GLOBAL POPULATION AND MOBILITY

Unit Test:
A. Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer.
__________ 1.Forced international migration has historically occurred for two main
cultural reasons

a. slavery and political instability

b. poverty and absence of legal protection
c. lack of income and environmental threat
d. employment and education

__________ 2.According to European Commission, which of the following is greatly

affected by climate change?

a. agriculture b. environment c. economy d. migration

__________ 3.The following are the contributions of remittance to economic growth,

except:

a.contributes to foreign exchange earnings

b.improves sending countries’ credit worthiness
c. expands access to international capital markets
d. serves as savings in financial institutions

__________ 4. Which of the following acts as push factor for migration in a nation state?

a. lack of political rights and prevalent exploitation of a particular group or community

b. environmental threat and agricultural disruption
c. lack of political protection and resurgence of military elements
d. employment opportunities and educational grants

__________ 5.In contemporary time, the following are considered to be the major socio-
political factors of migration, except:

a.situation of war c. political conflict

b.oppression d. lack of socio-political rights

__________ 6.In conflict or post–conflict situations, remittances can be crucial to the

following, except:
a.survival b. sustenance c. debt d. reconstruction

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__________ 7. Forced international migration persists because of political instability

resulting from;
a. cultural diversity b. political war c. sovereignty d. cross-border conflict

__________ 8. This term refers to people moving from one area to another within one
country.
a. internal migrants b. immigrants c. refugees d. petitioned

__________ 9. This term refers to people crossing the borders of one country to
another.
a. refugees b. petitioned c. international migrants d. internal migrants

__________10.This refers to persons or groups of persons who, for compelling

reasons of sudden or progressive changes in the environment are obliged to leave their
habitual homes, either temporarily or permanently.
a. intenal migrants
b. international migrants
c. immigrants
d. environmental migrants

__________ 11.This term refers to persons of groups of person returning to their

country of origin after having been international migrants in another country.
a. Immigrants b. international migrants c. returning migrants d.internal migrants

__________ 12.This term refers to the migration of people into a country in violation of
the immigration laws of the country.
a.illegal migration b. internal migration c. international migration d. migration law

__________ 13.Dependency ratios started to disappear due to

a. decline in global birth rate c. increased rate in migration
b. increase in mortality rate d. decline in old age structure

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__________ 14. During the 19th century, these two regions had an increased in share in
the world’s population, from 22.0 percent to 33.0 percent

a. Europe and West b. US and Japan c. Africa and China d. Philippines and India
__________ 15. Which is NOT true about global cities?
a.important nodes in a variety of global networks
b.major beneficiaries of globalization
c. with populations of over 5 million
d. with high influx of immigrants

B. Modified True or False. Identify whether the statement is correct or not. Write
True if it is corect, False if not. Modify the word or phrase that makes it incorrect.
__________ 1. Specialized organizations play a major role in the transmission of
remittances.
__________ 2.The rise of internationalization of capital accelerates the formation of
global cities.
__________ 3.In some part of the world, political instability is responsible for migration
of people.
__________ 4.According to World Migration Repprt in 2018, most international migrants
in 2015 were of working age between 20 to 64.
__________ 5.Return migration has always put impacts on, at various levels, of
economy as well as society in whole.
__________ 6.Ecological change assumes a contributing part in influencing populace
movement, especially on international level.
__________ 7. Birth rate decline can also be caused by a transition in values; not just
because of the availability of contraceptives.

__________ 8.The birth rate decline in developed countries started in the late 19th
century in western Europe.

__________ 9. Death rates may remain consistently low or increase slightly due to
increases in lifestyle diseases.
__________ 10. Unless the society develops new technologies to increase food
production , any fluctuations in birth rates are soon matched by mortality rates.
__________ 11. It was only in the 18th century that mortality decline in Africa and Asia,
with the exemption of Japan.

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__________ 12. The United Nations (UN) anticipates the population growth will double
between 2011 and 2100 in high-fertility countries, which are currently concentrated in
sub-Saharan Africa.

__________ 13. Use of contraception may not always be attributed to decline in birth
rate.

__________ 14. World cities are categorized as such based on the global reach of
organization found in them.
__________ 15. Ecological change forces millions of human creature to leave their
homes and even their homeland every year.

C. Essay (5 pts each)

1. Given the attributes of a global city, can the Philippines be also considered as a
global city? Justify your answers.

2. Aside from the above mentioned factors in human migration, what other factors can
you suggest that may contribute to internal and international migration? Explain.

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