Drill 28 · Multiple Choice · Unit 9: Globalization
AP World History Unit 9 Drill 28 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 9: Globalization. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This drill focuses on the environmental consequences of industrialization and globalization, examining how economic development and climate change have created new global challenges. Read the passage carefully, then answer all five questions.
Adapted from a modern historian's analysis of the global environmental consequences of industrialization.
"The environmental consequences of industrialization unfolded unevenly across the globe. The industrialized nations of Europe and North America burned fossil fuels for over a century before the developing world began its own industrial transition, yet the consequences of accumulated emissions fall disproportionately on nations that contributed least to the problem. Rising sea levels threaten low-lying coastal nations that produce negligible carbon emissions. Droughts driven by shifting rainfall patterns devastate agricultural communities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Meanwhile, the wealthiest nations — which bear the greatest historical responsibility for emissions — possess the resources to adapt, build seawalls, and relocate affected populations in ways that poorer nations cannot. Historians of the environment have called this 'ecological imperialism in reverse' — the costs of development in the rich world transferred to the bodies and livelihoods of the poor."