Humans and the Environment
Agriculture
Economic Activities
Potpourri
Development
100
A period of global cooling during which continental ice sheets and mountain snow packs expand
What is glaciation?
100
Growing only enough food in order to survive
What is subsistence farming?
100
Type of economic activity concerned with extracting resources and agriculture
What is a primary economic activity?
100
Rule by an authoritarian power over a subordinate and foreign people and/or place
What is colonialism?
100
A country advanced in technology, agricultural and industrial production, and socioeconomic welfare
What is a developed country?
200
The region of the upper atmosphere that shields the planet from harmful ultraviolet radiation
What is the ozone layer?
200
The genetic modification of plants such that their reproductive success depends on human intervention
What is plant domestication?
200
The dominant mode of mass production during the 20th century, with production of consumer goods along an assembly line at a single site
What is Fordism?
200
The approximate age of the Earth
What is 4.6 billion years?
200
Measure of the total value of the officially recorded goods and services produced within a country by the citizens and corporations in a given year
What is gross domestic product (GDP)?
300
A minor period of global cooling that began in the early 14th century and may contributed to the Bubonic Plague in Europe
What is the Little Ice Age?
300
The cultivation of crops in tropical forest settings in which the forest is removed via cutting or burning and crops are planted
What is shifting cultivation?
300
The illegal, quasi-illegal or uncounted array of economic activities that governments do not tax or monitor
What is the informal economy?
300
One of three gases found in the upper atmosphere that absorb energy radiated from the Earth
What is carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide or methane?
300
A measurement that calculates the number of people under age 15 or over age 65 per 100 workers in a given country
What is the dependency ratio?
400
A sustained warming phase between cooling phases of an ice age
What is interglaciation?
400
General term for the businesses that provide the vast array of goods and services that support the agriculture industry
What is agribusiness?
400
Type of economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials into finished goods
What is a secondary economic activity?
400
Loan programs that give small loans to poor people in order to encourage the development of small businesses
What are microcredit programs?
400
Measure of the monetary worth of what is produced within a country plus money received from investments outside the country
What is gross national income (GNI)?
500
The disappearance of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago is an example of this
What is a mass extinction?
500
Crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods
What is a genetically modified organism (GMO)?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
What are maquiladoras?
500
Areas within a country in which tax incentives and less stringent environmental regulations are implemented in order to attract foreign businesses
What are export processing zones?
500
One of four barriers to economic development
What are social conditions, foreign debt, disease or political corruption/instability?
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