Chapter 2 Key Term Quiz

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

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

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).

A storm arising over warm sea water that produces heavy rainfall and punishing winds The terms 'hurricane' and 'cyclone' are also used.

The zone between protected wild land and land being developed.

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

The process by which improvements in transport make it quicker to cover the same distance and thus bring places closer together.

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

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.

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

Storms that develop over warm seas and ocean and then move across the surface of the globe that can generate high winds, tidal surges and heavy rain.

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