Unit 1: It's all connected (content quiz)

Globalization

• An alternative to international trade.

• the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.

• To make a cycle of production in which the waste products that are used in manufacturing are re-used instead of disposed of.
• Increased interconnectedness of people, places, cultures, and economies.

Global interactions

• Focuses on the connections between individuals and communities, as well as their relationships with built and natural environments, from the perspective of the world as a whole.
• The things we use to make the products that meet our needs and wants.

• An economy based on the make, use, dispose model.
• the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.

Systems

• Holding businesses accountable to ethical standards by sticking to the triple bottom line.
• Sets of interacting or interdependent components.

• Information about hours, environment, and safety in regards to an occupation.
• the desire to own something and the ability to pay for it

Consumption

• Focuses on the connections between individuals and communities.

• Living within our means.

• To develop.

• The use of products to satisfy immediate needs and wants.

Interdependence

• The state of two or more individuals, groups or societies being reliant on each other.

• process by which people communicate effectively.

• the desire to own something and the ability to pay for it
• A relationship between two things.

Resources

• The things we use to make the products that meet our needs and wants.

• The use of products to satisfy immediate needs and wants.
• A state in which we meet our current needs and wants without hurting the ability of future generations to meet theirs.
• Holding businesses accountable to ethical standards by sticking to the triple bottom line.

Raw materials

• Unprocessed natural products used in production
• The use of products to satisfy immediate needs and wants.
• The process between producing and distributing the product, dealing with the suppliers and logistics of getting the product to market.
• the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.

Production

• Because of scarcity (unlimited needs and wants being met by limited resources) we must decide which needs and wants to meet with the resources we have.
• the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.
• The process of creating goods and services
• implies the notion of living within our means and it is central to an understanding of the nature of interactions between environmental systems and societies.

Product life cycle

• describes the stages a new product goes through in the marketplace.

• A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers
• Unprocessed natural products used in production
• an effect or result of the consumption of a product.

Outsourcing

• a society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, economic, or other purpose.
• The process between producing and distributing the product, dealing with the suppliers and logistics of getting the product to market.
• Obtain (goods or a service) from an outside or foreign supplier, especially in place of an internal source.
• A state in which we meet our current needs and wants without hurting the ability of future generations to meet theirs.