APWH - 9.1, 9.2 Concept Review

Match the following

• penicillin

• 1. Medical innovations, including vaccines and antibiotics, increased the ability of humans to survive and live longer lives.

• internet

• 1. The Green Revolution and commercial agriculture increased productivity and sustained the earth’s growing population as it spread chemically and genetically modified forms of agriculture.

• birth control pills

• More effective forms of birth control gave women greater control over fertility, transformed reproductive practices, and contributed to declining rates of fertility in much of the world.

• Cross breeding

• New modes of communication reduced the problems of geographic distance

• petroleum

• Energy technologies raised productivity and increased the production of material goods

Match the following

• malaria

• Some diseases occurred at higher incidence merely because of increased poverty

• Alzheimer's disease

• Energy technologies raised productivity and increased the production of material goods.

• shipping containers

• New modes of transportation reduced the problem of geographic distance

• nuclear power

• Diseases associated with poverty persisted

• 1918 influenza pandemic

• Other diseases emerged as new epidemics and threats to human populations