Week of March 18,2013

Current event week 4 due by the end of the week. Be ready for a quiz Friday on material covered this week.

Due Wednesday
34(1)  Idustrialized Nations After the Cold War (1096-1099)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Read Witness History (1096) What did the Masstrict Treaty (1992) establish?
Look at the map of EU members on page 1097.  List 5 member nations.  Identify two western European nations that have not joined.
Look at the picture on page 1098, how is Putin portrayed? What three factors tie the Pacific Rim countries together?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Read People and the Environment (1105) answer Thinking Critically #1.

34(3)Social and Environmental Challenges (1116-1113)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Read Malaria (1107) Why do you think malaria is a risk mainly in developing countries?
Look at the chart on 1108, what country attracts 20% of the world total migrants?
Look at the picture on page 1109, though which country do you think most of the US illegal immigrants come from? Why don’t signs like the one pictured stop them?
Look at the picture on page 1110, why would some people buy clothes with the RUGMARK label? Read the Infographic (1111) what is the relationship between disease and access to safe water?
Read the biography of Edward O. Wilson (1112) why did he originally study ants? Why do you think he believes foresight and moral courage are needed to preserve the environment?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due Thursday

34(4) Security in a Dangerous World (1115-1119)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Look at the picture on pag 1115, after what event is Pres. Bush speaking?
What is pictured on page 1116?  Why should we be concerned about biological weapons after the fall of the Soviet Union?
Look at the map on 1117, Identify 8 nations that are known nuclear powers, draw the nuclear symbol.
Look at the pictures  on 1118,  in what two ways is bin Laden portrayed?
Look at the model of the Freedom Tower pictured on 1119.  Why do you think it will be 1776 feet high?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.