GP Unit 2 Test - Critical Thinking Skills

Course of Action

• a general direction in which something is developing or changing.

• responsible for making something happen.

• a result or effect of something.

• an action or solution to an issue/problem

Prediction

• what someone thinks will happen in the future.

• breaking down of a global topic into issues and exploring the causes and consequences of issues and ways to help resolve them.

• the bringing together of research and information to form something new.

• working together to attempt to resolve an issue or problem.

The available facts or information indicating whether something is true or valid is known as _______________________

A ___________ is something that is true or something that has been proven correct.

What is an opinion?

• a view that may or may not be supported by evidence

• a view not be supported by evidence at all

• a view that must be supported by evidence

• a view of something is true and reliable

What do you understand by the term 'globalization' ?

• new risks and uncertainties brought to our lives

• A talk show only for Politicians all around the world

• Globalization is the transfer only for trucks fro one place to another.

• The speedup of movements and exchanges all over the planet

A reliable source is

• biased.
• trusted.
• promoting a product.
• google.

Answer explanation

Sources should be reliable in several ways - they should be up-to-date, unbiased, and well-informed.

What is a big clue that information on a webpage is not trustworthy?

• Plain looking logo.
• Spelling and grammar mistakes.
• Links to other sources of information.
• Lots of text, not a lot of pictures.

The students can best conclude that the creators of the posters -

• are historical experts

• have different viewpoints

• are misinformed

• need to include more pictures

A ______ resource is one "the reader can trust. We trust that the author’s ideas are [their] own and can be backed up with evidence. ”

• timely

• credible

• scholarly

• relevant