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.

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

Adapting to the challenges of climate change.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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