Chapter 2 Key Term Quiz

A Global Context
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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A large sea wave resulting from a tectonic shift.

The zone between protected wild land and land being developed.

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

Attempts to reduce climate change

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