Chapter 2 Key Term Quiz

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

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

An indicator used to describe and measure the number of distinct plant and animal species in a given geographical area.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The growing interdependence across national boundaries of economic flows and transactions.

A logarithmic scale that measure seismic disturbances from 1 to 10.

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