Environmental Impacts, Tech, & Globalization

Carrying Capacity

The maximum population size an environment can sustain indefinitely without habitat destruction.

Desertification

The process of fertile land becoming desert due to drought, deforestation, or poor agriculture. Example: The expanding borders of the Sahara Desert into the Sahel region of Africa.

Food Desert

An area with limited access to affordable, healthy, and fresh food, usually due to the places elling the food is far away.

Irrigation

The artificial process of applying controlled amounts of water to land to assist in production of crops.

Columbian Exchange

the exchange of goods and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa that began after Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492

Fair Trade

a movement that tries to provide farmers and workers in peripheral and semi-peripheral countries with a fair price for their products by providing more equitable trading conditions

GMO (Genetically Modified Organism)

A plant or animal with specific characteristics obtained through the manipulation of its genetic makeup.