Chapter 2 Key Term Quiz

A Global Context
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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.

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

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

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

The amount of land required to support human activities.

The period around 1800, centered in Britain, in which manufacturers rapidly discovered and implemented new ways of creating products.

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.

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.

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

A phenomenon in which areas that typically received greater amounts of precipitation become drier and take on characteristics more prevalent in desert climates.

A large sea wave resulting from a tectonic shift.

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

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