| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Acid Rain | A form of pollution in which a toxic mixture of chemicals in the air comes back to earth as rain, snow, or hail. |
| AIDS | (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) A health epidemic that has infected and killed millions throughout the world. |
| Commodity | A single crop export such as sugar, cocoa, or copper. |
| Computer Revolution | A revolutionary development of the past 50 years, which increased computer, networks linking individuals, governments, and businesses around the world. |
| Debt Crisis | Occurs when a poor nation took loans and the interest rate rose while the world economy slowed down. Poor nations were unable to repay their debts and interest on their loans |
| Deforestation | The destruction of forests, especially the rainforests. |
| Depopulation | reduction in population |
| Desertification | The process by which fertile or semi-desert land becomes desert. |
| Developed Nation | A nation with established agriculture and industry, advanced technology, and a strong educational system. |
| Developing Nation | A nation with limited resources that faces obstacles in achieving modern industrial economies. |
| Dichotomy | A division or the process of dividing into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups. |
| Economic Dependence | economic relationship, controlled be a developed nation, in which a less-developed nation exports raw materials to the developed nation and imports manufactured tools, capital and technological know-how |
| Genetic Engineering | 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 ethical issues about how far science should go to change and create life. |
| Global Migration | The movement of people from poor regions to more wealthy regions of the world. |
| Global North | 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 South | 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 Warming | Worldwide temperature increase caused by trapped greenhouse gases that changes the Earth's climate. |
| Greenhouse Effect | The process in which excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere traps heat and causes rising global temperatures. |
| Green Revolution | The development of new varieties of plants and improved agricultural techniques that result in greatly increasing food production for the world's growing population. |
| Gross Domestic Product | total value of all goods and services produced by a nation |
| Literacy Rate | percentage of people who can read and write |
| Modernization. | building a stable government while developing a country economically |
| Overpopulation | The overabundance of people in a region or country that lacks sufficient resources to adequately provide for them. |
| Pandemic | spread of disease across a large area, country, continent, or the entire world |
| Population Boom | An increase in the number of people in the world caused by better medical care, increased food supplies, and decreasing death rates |
| Standard of Living | measures the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society |
| Urbanization | The movement of people from rural areas to cities. |
| Welfare State | A system in which the government takes responsibility for its citizen's social and economic needs. |
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