Study

Grade 8 Humanities Year End Review

  •   0%
  •  0     0     0

  • List one benefit migration has on the receiving country?
    ex: immigrant works and pays taxes
  • List one positive and one negative environmental impact of tourism
    answers may vary
  • What does IDP stand for?
    Internally Displaced Person
  • Who invented the cotton gin?
    Eli Whitney
  • What type of work did slaves do in the Roman Empire?
    Almost everything
  • Before the Industrial Revolution, most people lived in _______, after most people lived in ________
    the countryside, cities
  • List one benefit migration has on the sending country
    ex: emigrant might send money back home
  • Name 3 types of modern day slavery
    ex. bonded, forced labour, descent-based, forced marriage
  • Which country received the highest number of tourist arrivals in 2015?
    France
  • What does the UNWTO stand for?
    United Nations World Tourism Organization
  • List one positive and one negative economic impact of tourism
    answers may vary
  • Building the World Cup Stadium in Qatar has resulted in what type of slavery?
    forced labour
  • How did ancient Romans acquire slaves? (Give one example)
    debt, prisoners of war, born into it
  • Which region has the highest number of tourist arrivals?
    Europe
  • Where was the Middle Passage and the Second Middle Passage?
    First= from Africa to the US Second= within the US
  • Name one country with the highest prevalence of modern day slavery by proportion of population
    North Korea, Uzbekistan, Cambodia, India, and Qatar
  • Many Vietnamese are trafficked to the UK to work in which industry?
    cannabis
  • What was a major difference in how people became slaves in the US vs. the Roman Empire?
    US slavery was based on race - Roman slavery was not.
  • Who were the plebeians in ancient Rome?
    the working class
  • Moving INTO a new country is called _____
    immigration
  • Which country has the highest absolute number of people in modern slavery
    India
  • What is manumission?
    When slaves are granted their freedom
  • List 3 examples of push factors in migration
    ex. natural disaster, war, low wages, poor benefits/education, unemployment, etc
  • In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?
    UK
  • List one positive and one negative social impact of tourism
    answers may vary
  • Which country's government forces its citizens to pick cotton?
    Uzbekistan
  • Is the number of tourists increasing or decreasing globally each year?
    increasing
  • What factors might cause tourism to decrease in a region? (Give 2)
    Ex: war, natural disasters/bad weather, outbreak, political unrest
  • Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory was called ________
    cottage industry
  • How does the Industrial Revolution connect with slavery in the USA?
    Textile industry boomed - needed more cotton pickers and labour
  • A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster is called a ________
    refugee
  • What mode of transport is the most common for inbound travel?
    air
  • Moving OUT of a country to live somewhere else is called _____
    emigration
  • What do we call the time period between 1750- the early 1900s in the UK?
    Industrial Revolution
  • Name 3 important inventions during the Industrial Revolution
    steam engine, powered loom, steel furnace, cotton gin, etc
  • List 3 examples of pull factors in migration
    better jobs, education, better climate, more freedom, etc
  • Explain what 'remittance' is
    Money that immigrants send back to their home country
  • What is an assembly line?
    Workers are responsible for only one part of manufacturing a good