Chapter 2 Key Term Quiz

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

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

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 model of different stages that begins with high birth and death rates, moves through increasing birth rated and declining death rates to low birth rates and long life expectancy.

The 750-mile active zone between he Pacific and North American plates that runs from San Francisco down to southern California.

The amount of land required to support human activities.

The growing political cooperation between states and their greater use of transnational organizations and global nongovernment organizations.

A term denoting the arrival of Europeans to the Americas, which resulting in vast demographic changes to indigenous populations.

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

A layer of soil that remains frozen all the year round.

A gas produced from the burning of carbon. The increasing amount in the atmosphere is responsible for climate change.

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

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