Chapter 2 Key Term Quiz

A Global Context
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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.

A measure of the number of individuals below 14 and over 65 when compared to the total working aged population.

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

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

A large sea wave resulting from a tectonic shift.

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.

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

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

A rapid increase in the number of people between the ages of 15 and 24.

When water is too warm coral will eject the algae in their tissues making them turn white. It is a sign of stress and an indicator of poor health and even the death of the coral.

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.

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

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