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A natural substance that is used up more quickly than it can replace itself.
A resource that can be replenished naturally over time.
Renewable resource
The political view that believes in greater social and economic equality. People who align with this viewpoint typically favour socially liberal ideas.
Left-wing
The average period that a person is expected to live.
Prejudice in favor for or against any thing, person, or group in comparison with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair or unjust.
Bias
The number of deaths per 1,000 live births of children under one year of age.
Infant mortality rate
Those countries that have joined the core, become more globalized, in recent years.
New Core
A statement based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions. (Biased)
Subjective
Number of births per 1000 people in a country or region in a given year.
Birth rate
A point of view or way of looking at things.
Perspective
The difference between people coming into a country, and the number of people leaving a country.
Immigration Rate
A problem that affects multiple countries and possibly the entire world in some way and requires a collective effort to solve.
World Issue (or Issue)
The growing interdependence of the world's economies, cultures, and populations, due to cross-border trade in goods and services, technology, etc.
Globalization
A person's position in society based on factors such as their job, income, and education.
Socio-economic status
Conserving the use of resources such as habitats, raw materials, energy or human labour.
Sustainability
Jordan accepted hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees into camps. One "tent-city" in Jordan housed 80,000 of them.
Zaatari
Countries that have been highly globalized for many years (e.g. countries in western Europe, Canada, US, Australia, and New Zealand, etc.)
Old-core
The percentage of population that is younger than 15 or older than 64 years.
Dependancy Load
The maximum number of people that can be sustained by an environment (e.g. the Earth's resources)
Carrying Capacity
A statement not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. Needs to be the whole truth and unbiased.
Objective
Focuses on the interconnectedness and interdependence between living and non-living systems in the environment
Ecological Worldview
The belief that a state should obtain greater territory through empire-building or colonialism.
Expansionist Worldview
Countries that have a long ways to go to become fully functioning members of the globalized world.
Far-periphery
Countries in the periphery that are most globalized and closest to joining core.
Near-core periphery
The main 5 countries in BRICS
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.