Social Sciences and History / Unit 16 SSH 1506 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Sample Question Six: The Green Revolution
The idea
The stem says the Green Revolution was a term used in the nineteen sixties to describe programs designed to, and the options are: achieve zero population growth worldwide; establish belts of open space around major cities; control tropical deforestation; increase environmental awareness in industrialized nations; increase food production to meet world population growth. The key is E. Entry 1107 carries Dorrell's definition, high-yield seeds and fertilizers exported from the core to the periphery to increase productivity, and Finlayson's population link, beginning in India in the nineteen sixties with a hybrid rice yielding ten times the traditional seed. The distractors: A is the opposite goal, since the programs fed growth rather than stopping it; B describes greenbelts, an urban-planning term; C and D belong to later environmental movements, which the anchor's sustainable agriculture answers.
In practice
Green here means crops, not conservation; the option about food is the only agricultural one.
Where people slip
The trap is the word green, which pulls toward the environmental options. The second trap is direction: core to periphery, in the anchor's words.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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