Colombian Exchange
Name the four types of things that explorers and traders brought to the New World or took back to their homelands.
What are plants (crops), people, culture (customs) and diseases (pathogens)?
Define "world zones."
More of an item or good than you need.
What is a surplus?
The people who inhabit a territory, state or area.
What is a population?
the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.
machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge.
What is technology?
An interconnected system of things or people.
What is a network?
Name the four world zones.
What are Afro-Eurasia, the Americas, Australasia, and the Pacific Islands?
The process by which businesses and industries develop international influence or operations around the world.
What is globalization?
A message sent and received.
What is information?
The production of goods or related services within an economy.
The extended spatial location of something.
What is a region?
The Afro-Eurasia world zone includes these areas.
Africa, Eurasia and offshore islands like Britain and Japan.
The imagined worth placed on an item by a society. Not the same as an item's actual or inherent worth.
What is symbolic value?
What is to develop?
Increase in the rate of speed for something.
What is acceleration?
To put in place of another, to switch seemingly equivalent goods.
What is an exchange?
Made up of North, Central and South America, the Americas world zone also includes these.
Offshore islands like the Caribbean Islands.
A system of money in common use within a given society. The representation of value used to trade.
What is currency?
An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization.
What is a civilization?
These fuels are one of the ingredients that drove the modern revolution.
What are fossil fuels?
A disease thought to have killed more indigenous (native) people in North America than war or starvation.
What is smallpox?
New Zeland plus these three other areas are included in the Pacific Islands world zone.
What are Micronesia, Melanesia and Hawaii?
The practice of backing currency with physical gold.
What is the gold standard?
Done by a group of individuals acting together.
What is collective?
The introduction of and continually increasing use of energy around the world has lead to increased global temperatures that are having harmful effects on the Earth's ecosystems.
What is climate change?