Chapter 2 Key Term Quiz

A Global Context
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A layer of soil that remains frozen all the year round.

Attempts to reduce climate change

A change in climate that takes different forms across the globe.

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

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

The amount of land required to support human activities.

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

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

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

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

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

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