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Global Issues
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A form of in which a toxic mixture of chemicals in the air comes back to the earth as rain, snow, or hail | Acid Rain |
| A health epidemic that has infected and killed millions throughout the world | A.I.D.S |
| A single crop export such as sugar cocoa, or copper | Commodity |
| A development of the past 50 years, which increased computer, networks linking individuals, government, and businesses around on their loans | Debt Crisis |
| The destruction of forests,especially the rain-forests | Deforestation |
| The process by which fertile or semi-desert land becomes desert | Decertification |
| A nation with established agriculture and industry, advanced technology, and a strong educational system | Developed Nations |
| A nation with limited resources that faces obstacles in achieving modern industrial standards | Developing Nations |
| A division or the process of dividing into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups. | Dichotomy |
| An economic relationship relationship, controlled by a developed nation, in which a less-developed nation exports raw materials to the developed nation and imports manufactured tools, capital and technology know-how | Economic Dependence |
| The process of altering the chemical codes carried by all living things, in order to produce better drugs, and cures for disease. In recent years this has raised ethnical issues about how far science should go to change and create life. | Genetic Engineering |
| The movement of people from poor regions to more wealthy regions of the world | Global Migration |
| The industrial nations of Western Europe and North America, including Japan, Australia and the United States. These nations control the majority of the world's wealth | Global North |
| Developing nations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, which include three quarters of the world's population. Much of the regions' natural resources continue to remain underdeveloped | Global South |
| Worldwide temperature increase caused by trapped greenhouse gases that changes the Earth's climate | Global Warming |
| The process in which excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere traps heat and causes rising global temperatures | Greenhouse Effect |
| The development of new varieties of plants and improved agricultural techniques that result in greatly increasing food production for the world's growing population | Green Revolution |
| Total Value of all goods and services produced by a nation | Gross Domestic Product |
| Percentage of people who can read and write | Literacy Rate |
| Building a stable government while developing a country economically | Modernization |
| The overabundance of people in a region of country that lacks sufficient resources to adequately provide for them | Overpopulation |
| Spread of disease across a large area, country, continent, or the entire world | Pandemic |
| An increase in the number of people in the world caused by better medical care, increased food supplies, and decreasing death rates | Population Boom |
| Measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society | Standard of Living |
| The movement of people from rural areas to cities | Urbanization |
| A system in which the government takes responsibility for its citizen's social and economic needs. | Welfare State |
| Reduction in population | Depopulation |
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