Chapter 2 Key Term Quiz

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

A large sea wave resulting from a tectonic shift.

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

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.

Generally refers to any sustained period of cooler weather, but more specifically often used to the period from 2.5 million to 10,000 years ago when permanent ice sheets were created and the weather cooled dramatically.

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

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

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

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

The transmission of cultural ideas and practices around the world.

The amount of land required to support human activities.

A global change in mortality and fertility that occurred around 1800, but also refers to the four phases of transition.

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