Chapter 2 Key Term Quiz

A Global Context
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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

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

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

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

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.

An economic trade agreement signed in 2016 by twelve countries along the Pacific Rim

The economic and political alliance of most European countries.

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.

Adapting to the challenges of climate change.

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

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

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