Practise MYP Individuals & Societies questions on 5.1 Internal Instability 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.
Why do scholars argue that environmental triggers, like the 749 CE earthquake, must be analyzed using 'conditional language'?
True or False: According to global data cited in the text, the number of refugees currently exceeds the number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
According to the systems model of internal instability, what is the most likely consequence of a failure in a state's legal system?
According to global data mentioned in the text, what is the approximate ratio of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to refugees?
How does corruption create a 'double impact' on state stability according to the text?
Because environmental factors are considered secondary to economic factors in all political theories
Because natural disasters always lead to the immediate collapse of an empire regardless of political health
Because disasters usually only cause decline if the state already has existing internal conflicts or weaknesses
Because earthquakes are natural events that cannot be predicted by political scientists
True
False
It forces the state to expand its territory to find new resources.
It is isolated and has no effect on other systems.
It automatically results in an immediate transition to a new form of government.
It causes other systems, like business confidence and tax revenue, to decline.
The numbers are roughly equal
There are twice as many refugees as IDPs
IDPs only make up a small fraction of the total displaced population
There are twice as many IDPs as refugees
It encourages foreign investment while increasing internal inflation
It strengthens local leaders while weakening the central bureaucracy
It increases military power while decreasing social welfare
It weakens state capacity to fund services and undermines the state's legitimacy
