Author: Halski Villafuerte

Property of VOX INC. OED TEAM

Subject:
BL-GE-6102-LEC-1923T THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Quiz 3 Score: 9-10/10

This attempt Scored 9/10

It is the statistical study of human populations:

Select one:
a. Demography
b. Economics
c. Geography
d. Biography
Answer: Demography

ASEAN +3 is a forum that functions as a coordinator of co-operation between the

Association of Southeast Asian Nations and three other nations namely:

Select one:
a. Mongolia, India, Pakistan
b. Russia, USA, Canada
c. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal
d. China, Korea, Japan
Answer: China, Korea, Japan

These regions are also called perceptual regions which are often based around a common
cultural characteristic:

Select one:
a. Uniform regions
b. Nodal regions
c. Functional regions
d. Vernacular regions
Answer: Vernacular regions

Which of the following does not belong to the four pillars of urban life?

Select one:
a. Educational
b. Recreational
c. Commercial
d. Civic
Answer: Recreational

The rise of global cities has been linked with the expansion of the role of TNCs in global
production patterns. TNC stands for:

Select one:
a. Transnational corporation
b. Transnational commission
c. Transnational culture
d. Transnational cooperation
Answer: Transnational corporation

The phenomenon wherein fertility declines and life expectancy rises, the proportion of the
population above a certain age rises as well:

Select one:
a. Birth rate
b. Fertility
c. Mortality
d. Population ageing
Answer: Population ageing

What attribute of a global city refers to having a storehouse of smart, educated, creative
people?

Select one:
a. Connectivity
b. Size
c. Economic
d. Human capital
Answer: Human capital

It is a global city's perceived power to attract creative people and businesses from across
the globe, and to "mobilize their assets" to boost economic, social and environmental
development:

Select one:
a. Economy
b. Industry
c. Politics
d. Magnetism
Answer: Magnetism

It is a continuing process of forming regions as geopolitical units, as organized political

cooperation within a particular group of states, and/or as regional communities such as
pluralistic security communities.

Select one:
a. Internationalization
b. Regionalization
c. Globalization
d. Universalization
Answer: Regionalization

The term ______ is often used as shorthand for poor or developing nations.

Select one:
a. Third World
b. Second World
c. First World
d. Fourth World
Answer: Third World

This attempt scored 10/10

The most populous country in the world today is:

Select one:
a. Brazil
b. United States
c. China
d. India
Answer: China

ASEAN +3 is a forum that functions as a coordinator of co-operation between the

Association of Southeast Asian Nations and three other nations namely:

Select one:
a. Mongolia, India, Pakistan
b. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal
c. China, Korea, Japan
d. Russia, USA, Canada
Answer: China, Korea, Japan

It is the proneness of the governments and peoples of two or more states to establish
voluntary associations and to pool together resources in order to create common functional
and institutional arrangements and a process occurring in a given geographical region by
which different types of actors come to share certain fundamental values and norms.

Select one:
a. Communism
b. Socialism
c. Fascism
d. Regionalism
Answer: Regionalism

It is an urban center that enjoys significant competitive advantages and that serves as a hub
within a globalized economic system:

Select one:
a. Metropolitan
b. Megacity
c. Nation-state
d. Global city
Answer: Global city

The term ______ is often used as shorthand for poor or developing nations.
Select one:
a. Second World
b. Third World
c. Fourth World
d. First World
Answer: Third World

What attribute of a global city refers to having a storehouse of smart, educated, creative
people?

Select one:
a. Human capital
b. Connectivity
c. Size
d. Economic
Answer: Human capital

Who theorized that the 1st World was composed of the "superpowers" - US, Soviet Union,
etc; the 2nd World was composed of lesser powers; and the 3rd World was composed of
post-colonial emerging markets.

Select one:
a. Adolf Hitler
b. Winston Churchill
c. Mao Zedong
d. Nelson Mandela
Answer: Mao Zedong

It is a socio-economic and political divide of countries, comprising the three worlds known
as First, Second, and Third Worlds.

Select one:
a. East-West Divide
b. East-North Divide
c. North-South Divide
d. West-South Divide
Answer: North-South Divide
The annual changes in population resulting from births, deaths and net migration during
the year:

Select one:
a. Birth rate
b. Fertility rate
c. Growth rate
d. Elderly dependency rate
Answer: Growth rate

It is a global city's perceived power to attract creative people and businesses from across
the globe, and to "mobilize their assets" to boost economic, social and environmental
development:

Select one:
a. Magnetism
b. Politics
c. Economy
d. Industry
Answer: Magnetism

This attempt scored 9/10

The phenomenon wherein fertility declines and life expectancy rises, the proportion of the
population above a certain age rises as well:

Select one:
a. Mortality
b. Birth rate
c. Population ageing
d. Fertility
Answer: Population ageing

This refers to all nationals present in, or temporarily absent from a country, and aliens
permanently settled in a country. This indicator shows the number of people that usually
live in an area:

Select one:
a. Refugees
b. Population
c. Migration
d. Aliens
Answer: Population

What was the term used to describe several industrial countries and majority of these
countries either practiced a socialistic system of government or a communist system of
government?

Select one:
a. First World
b. Fourth World
c. Third World
d. Second World
Answer: Second World

The rise of global cities has been linked with the expansion of the role of TNCs in global
production patterns. TNC stands for:

Select one:
a. Transnational culture
b. Transnational cooperation
c. Transnational corporation
d. Transnational commission
Answer: Transnational corporation

These regions are also called perceptual regions which are often based around a common
cultural characteristic:

Select one:
a. Functional regions
b. Vernacular regions
c. Nodal regions
d. Uniform regions
Answer: Vernacular regions

Who introduced the "three worlds" model wherein the First World included the United
States and its capitalist allies in places such as Western Europe, Japan and Australia; the
Second World consisted of the communist Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites;
and the Third World encompassed all the other countries that were not actively aligned with
either side in the Cold War?

Select one:
a. Mary Douglas
b. Franz Boas
c. Margaret Mead
d. Alfred Sauvy
Answer: Alfred Sauvy

These regions are also called formal regions some trait is shared with relative uniformity
across the space.

Select one:
a. Nodal regions
b. Functional regions
c. Vernacular regions
d. Uniform regions
Answer: Uniform regions (sure)

It is a continuing process of forming regions as geopolitical units, as organized political

cooperation within a particular group of states, and/or as regional communities such as
pluralistic security communities.

Select one:
a. Regionalization
b. Universalization
c. Globalization
d. Internationalization
Answer: Regionalization

Which of the following does not belong to the four pillars of urban life?

Select one:
a. Educational
b. Commercial
c. Civic
d. Recreational
Answer: Recreational
It is the statistical study of human populations:

Select one:
a. Biography
b. Economics
c. Demography
d. Geography
Answer: Demography