Answer Key — Social Studies Study Guide for 15-Year-Olds: Urbanization, Migration, Pacific Cultures, EU & UN

Answer Key

Study Guide: True/False

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Urbanization: Multiple Choice Questions

1. C. The increasing proportion of a country’s population that lives in urban areas (cities and towns).
2. C. More than 50%
3. B. Increasing rural-to-urban migration and high regional birth rates.
4. C. The perception of better job opportunities and higher wages in cities.
5. C. Overcrowding, inadequate housing (slums), and increased strain on public services (like sanitation or transport).
6. C. Investing in planned, serviced, and affordable high-density housing projects and slum upgrading schemes.

Learning to Live in Vanuatu

1. B. Marriages were arranged by parents or elders to ensure alliances, secure property, or maintain social status.
2. B. To ensure that property and wealth remained within established family lines and to forge beneficial community alliances.
3. C. It is less common, often replaced by love marriages, though it may persist in modified forms or specific communities.
4. B. Traditional practices are being adapted or marketed to generate income, often for tourism or cultural display, sometimes losing their original deep meaning.
5. B. A local artisan selling hand-carved wooden masks that were once used only for sacred community ceremonies to international tourists.

Land-Diving and Commercialization

• 3a: B. To generate income through tourism, which helps fund the community and maintain the tradition’s visibility.
• 3b: C. Marketing traditional music performances exclusively for cruise ship passengers, and charging entrance fees for access to sacred ancestral sites.
• 3c: C. By direct observation, imitation, and initiation under the guidance of elders.
• 3d: B. The use of modern safety equipment, like ropes attached to the ankle, has been incorporated.
• 3e: B. The increasing demand from international tourists who wish to witness the spectacle safely.

Identifying an Organization

• 4a: C. The United Nations (UN)
• 4b: C. New York City, United States
• 4c: B. To promote international cooperation, maintain peace and security, and develop friendly relations among nations.
• 4d: B. A forum for diplomatic negotiation, and access to humanitarian aid and specialized agencies (like WHO or UNICEF).