Vocab 1
The extreme shortage of food
What is Famine
Exchange of goods among nations without trade barriers such as tariffs.
What is Free Trade
The process in which countries are linked through trade and culture.
What is Globalization
Identical terms that can be used in place of one another.
Interchangeable
The spread of culture traits from one region to another
What is cultural diffusion
an Epidemic
The clearing of trees
What is deforestation
The spread of desert-like conditions
Desertification
an attempt to increase the world's food production by using fertilizers pesticides, and new varieties of crops.
What is The Green Revolution
People who leave their own country to find safety in another nation
What is a Refugee
Economic development that does not permanently damage resources is?
Sustainable development
Nation that is still developing industry
What is Emerging Nation
Worldwide computer network
What is the Internet
The process of creating identical organisms from a cell of an original organism
What is Cloning
Weapons, including biological, chemical, and nuclear, that can cause an enormous amount of destruction
What are Weapons of Mass Destruction
Attacks on information systems for political reasons
what is cyberterrorism
Industrialized nation with advanced manufacturing production
What is a Devloped nation
emphasis on the buying of consumer goods
What is Consumerism
1948 United Nations statement of specific rights that all peeople should have
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Groups not affiliated with any government, formed to provide services or push for certain public policy is?
NGOs
The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence
what is Artifical Intelligence
Protection of natural resources
What is Conservation
The use of threat of violence to cause fear and advance political goals
Whait is terrorism
economic or political penalties imposed by one country on another to try to force a change in policy
What is sanctions
Term describing global warming, the warming of the Earth's surface
What is a Greenhouse gas.