Chapter 2 Key Term Quiz

A Global Context
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An indicator used to describe and measure the number of distinct plant and animal species in a given geographical area.

A scientific organization established by the United Nations to provide objective information on climate change and its possible impacts

A change in climate that takes different forms across the globe.

An economic trade agreement signed in 2016 by twelve countries along the Pacific Rim

The growing interdependence across national boundaries of economic flows and transactions.

A term describing how material becomes a resource when it is valued and traded, has a price equivalent, and it enters the arena of things bought and sold.

The zone between protected wild land and land being developed.

A measure of the number of individuals below 14 and over 65 when compared to the total working aged population.

Occurs when birth rates fall to a point that requires less investment in the very young, but before more investment is required on the elderly, and results in the relative and absolute increase of younger, more productive workers.

A rapid increase in the number of people between the ages of 15 and 24.

The ability to meet the needs of the present without destroying the needs of the future.

The global exchange of plants and animals unique to either the Old World or the New World.

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