Practise MYP History questions on 12.3 Innovators and Disruptors and review the explanations to check your understanding.
Use these questions for topic practice and to find ideas you want to revisit in your notes or lessons.
True or False: Elon Musk's success with electric vehicles was largely due to the specific historical context of improved battery technology and rising climate concerns.
According to the textbook, what is the specific outcome of a disruptor's actions on established systems?
Why does the textbook use the phrase 'plant seeds whose trees future generations will climb' to describe innovators?
Fill in the Blank: Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web became transformative specifically because millions of people __________ and adapted his original idea.
What role did government policy play in Elon Musk's disruption of the electric vehicle industry?
True
False
They ignore current laws to build more complex machines
They make old methods less effective or obsolete
They slightly improve existing tools without changing their function
They only focus on individual inventions rather than systems
To emphasize that the impact of an innovation often grows over long periods of time
To show that innovators are usually interested in environmental science
To suggest that innovation is an organic process that cannot be controlled
To explain why innovators are usually wealthy
Restricted
Purchased
Adopted
Copyrighted
It nationalized all car manufacturing companies
It prevented battery technology from being exported
It provided green incentives that encouraged adoption
It banned the use of electric vehicles
