Quiz 2

Question 0

Define longevity

Answer 0

The ability to remain alive from one year to the next

Question 1

Define lifespan

Answer 1

Oldest age a human can survive and as countries develop they longer they can live

Question 2

Define life expectancy

Answer 2

Statistical average length of life ex:77

Question 3

Define adult mortality

Answer 3

Beyond middle age mortality increases

Question 4

Define infant mortatility rates

Answer 4

Number of deaths per one thousand children

Question 5

What is oral rehydration therapy (ORT)?

Answer 5

It gives children cheap glucose and electrolyte solution to replenish body fluids and has been useful in developing countries it has sugar and salt in it and is a quick and easy way to prevent diseases - it’s given to kids who have malnutrition and this is specifically where there is a lack of water

Question 6

What are communicable diseases?

Answer 6

Measles, tuberculosis, malaria

Question 7

What is HIV and AIDS

Answer 7

A disease that has spread across the world through the 198os and sexual exchange without proper protection in general with any relationship will get it

Question 8

What are infectious diseases

Answer 8

It spreads more easily with urban habitat like Ebola it spreads easily when there are tons of people gather together and especially in undeveloped countries

Question 9

What are cardiovascular disease?

Answer 9

Diseases related to the heart like a stroke or heart disease

Question 10

What is maternal mortality?

Answer 10

More than half of all women each year die from maternal causes and there are a lot of women dying from giving birth

Question 11

Maternal mortality ratio

Answer 11

Measure the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births and the average is so high because of the under developed countries

Question 12

Define xenophobia

Answer 12

Fear and distrust of strangers towards recent immigrant populations ex: there are a lot of illegal immigrants from Poland but no one knows about it because everyone is focused in Mexican immigrants ex:scare of Muslims after 9/11

Question 13

What are enclaves?

Answer 13

A place in a large community where a certain population is concentrated ex: place will you feel safe and will be able to get support if something happens to you

Question 14

What are the three A’s of immigration?

Answer 14

Adaption, acculturation, and assimilation

Question 15

What is adaptation

Answer 15

Adjusting to a new environment/surroundings

Question 16

What is acculturation

Answer 16

Take on cultural aspects of new society, such as learning language, listening to music, making friendships outside of minority group ex wearing Yankee hats or becoming friends with white people to fit in - learn key social behaviors of majority group

Question 17

What is assimilation

Answer 17

Assume behaviors and attitudes of majority group for example you take on the beliefs systems or give up a little bit of your identity and culture

Question 18

What is a donor area

Answer 18

Place where migrants come from like China and Mexico

Question 19

What is a host area

Answer 19

Place where migrant go to

Question 20

What is forced migration

Answer 20

Slavery and indentured servitude are legacies that persis to this day

Question 21

What is technological determinism

Answer 21

Promotes use of online shopping as a way to lower your prices and save you time and so workers must package thousands of packages a day that is based on increased demand from online consumer s

Question 22

What happens to workers working on shelf lives

Answer 22

Workers don’t have contracts and are forced to work without benefits and small towns across the U.S. Usually lets big corporations come and do this because they need to create more jobs

Question 23

What does globalization do to underdeveloped countries and tourism?

Answer 23

It makes it cheat so that even these places can have new tourist resorts and has tourism has become a big industry and the cost of flying has gone down but most of the people in the world will never fly on a plane

Question 24

What role does the United Nations world tourism org play in these tourism?

Answer 24

They promote the development of a tourism industry in poorer countries as a way to grow their GDP and is repsponsible for 5% of the worlds pollution ex:cruise ships where people poop and flush the toilet it would be flushed into the water

Question 25

What is brain drain

Answer 25

Skilled labors leave the country to find better paying jobs and this creates an abscess of these types of professions like doctors and nurses and teachers – with higher educations leave the country to find employment in other countries

Question 26

What is sheer numbers of migration

Answer 26

200 million international migrants or people who stay of their given country for more than a year

Question 27

Define 3 d jobs and labor pool

Answer 27

The dirty and difficult and dangerous jobs are taken up by international migrants while the available labor in their home country is shrinking

Question 28

What is undermining about tourism

Answer 28

Not caring to learn about the culture of the country and seeing the beauty of their country

Question 29

What are reasons to migrate?

Answer 29

Internal war or conflict, better jobs and wages, find better living conditions for their families and there are usually labor shortages in developing countries

Question 30

What are push factors

Answer 30

Causing them to flee like genocide

Question 31

What are pull factors

Answer 31

Pulling people towards these places like Canada or the untied states

Question 32

South north migration

Answer 32

Migrants from south and Central America migrating north to the unisex states

Question 33

What did saskia sassen argue

Answer 33

That economic globalization is the major factor that impacts a global migration patterns and that income differences in regions of the world encourage migration patterns for low income individuals –income differences in regions of the world encourage migration patterns

Question 34

Define Senescence.

Answer 34

Decline in physical viability brought on by rise in vulnerability to disease

Question 35

Define “wear and tear”.

Answer 35

Likens humans to machines that eventually wear out due to the stresses and strains and this is easier for diseases to come in