The Recent World
The growing internet relied on HTTP, URLs, and this web-page language.
What is HTML?
An amount left over when income exceeds spending.
What is a surplus?
Politics in the 1990s included more attention to ______ voters.
Who are Independents?
Internet technology made information faster and easier to do these two things.
What are publish and share?
These letters identify the system used to transfer information across the web.
What is HTTP?
The early 00s were strongly shaped by terrorism and wars in these two countries.
What are Afghanistan and Iraq?
A person participating in organized rebellion against an established authority.
What is an insurgent?
Early- 00s wars involved ______ fighters.
What is insurgent?
Faster online communication also created new problems involving this kind of information.
What is unreliable information?
These web addresses help locate resources online.
What are URLs?
Rising average temperatures are one part of this broader long-term environmental pattern.
What is climate change?
The crime of knowingly giving false testimony under oath.
What is perjury?
The process by which productive land becomes dry and desert-like is called ______.
What is desertification?
Terrorist attacks and overseas wars increased concern about this.
What is national security?
This term means strongly aligned with a particular political party or side.
What is partisan?
Recent public life has struggled with deliberately deceptive information and false information spread without necessarily intending deception.
What are disinformation and misinformation?
Long-term changes in average temperature, rainfall, and extreme-weather patterns.
What is climate change?
A person forced to migrate because of severe environmental change may become a climate ______.
What is refugee?
Climate change can damage livelihoods and contribute to this process that dries out productive land.
What is desertification?
False information spread without deliberate intent to deceive is called this.
What is misinformation?
Technology, security, climate, and information all became increasingly connected in shaping this period.
What is the recent world?
The forced removal of an ethnic or religious group through violence or intimidation.
What is ethnic cleansing?
Changing ______ describe shifts in the statistical characteristics of a population.
What are demographics?
Environmental changes can force people to migrate, creating these displaced people.
What are climate refugees?
These population statistics can include age, location, race, income, and education.
What are demographics?