Unit 11: Globalization

The destruction of forests, especially the rainforests

• Nuclear Proliferation

• Deforestation

• Global Warming

• Desertification

Worldwide temperature increase caused by trapped greenhouse gasses that changes the Earth’s climate

• Green Revolution

• Greenhouse Effect

• Nuclear Proliferation

• Global Warming

The use of nuclear energy and the spread of nuclear weapons that pose serious threats to the global environment

• Greenhouse Effect

• Nuclear Proliferation

• Green Revolution

• Desertification

The process in which excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere traps heat and causes rising global temperatures

• Green Revolution

• Greenhouse Effect

• Global Warming

• Desertification

The development of new varieties of plants and improved agricultural techniques that result in greatly increasing food production for the world’s growing population

• Global Warming

• Greenhouse Effect

• Green Revolution

• Deforestation

The process by which fertile or semi-desert land becomes desert

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Greenhouse Effect

• Green Revolution

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

• Green Revolution

• Global Migration

• Genetic Engineering

• Greenhouse Effect

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; a health epidemic that has infected and killed millions throughout the world

• Global Migration

• Genetic Engineering

• Pandemic

• A.I.D.S.

The movement of people from poor regions to more wealthy regions of the world

• Overpopulation

• Global Migration

• Human Trafficking

• Population Boom

The recruiting and transportation of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor, and servitude

• Human Trafficking

• Global Migration

• Genetic Engineering

• Desertification