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World Studies 7
The Global Community CHAPTER 20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| free trade areas | remove tariffs and quotas(quotas: amount of products other countries can sale to these trade zones) |
| single market | enables states to trade with one another without restriction |
| European Union (EU) | is an economic and political alliance of nearly thirty nations across Europe |
| euro | currency used by sixteen member states of the EU |
| Al Gore | insists that man is causing climate change & that dire consequences are just over the horizon |
| global warming | a belief that man is causing climate change & that dire consequences are just over the horizon |
| Vaclav Klaus | rejected the claims of global warming |
| Energy | coal, wind, nuclear, solar, water, & oil |
| embryonic stem cells | are used by scientists to try to find cures to diseases, but in the process the embryo is destroyed |
| adult stem cells | are used by scientists and actually have helped with diseases and it doesn't have the same moral dilemma as embryonic stem cell research does |
| Saddam Hussein | Dictator of Iraq and attacked Iran |
| Taliban | radical Muslim group |
| Osama bin Laden | a Saudi extremist |
| al Qaeda | a terrorist network built by Osama bin Laden that operated out of Afghanistan |
| Wahhabist | this movement has used the vast wealth generated by oil sales to spread the literal application of Islam to many parts of the world |
| madrasses | religious Muslim schools |
| global |
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Bethany Hudson
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