Chapter 2 Key Term Quiz

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

A seasonal wind in South East Asia that blows from land to sea in October to May (dry monsoon ) and from sea to land on May to September bringing rain (wet monsoon).

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

The amount of land required to support human activities.

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

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.

Attempts to reduce climate change

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

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.

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.

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

The zone between protected wild land and land being developed.

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