Chapter 20

2. the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
6. Several factors that determine whether or not a country is developed
10. Interconnected network
16. a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy.
18. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a federal agency designed to protect the United States against threats. Its wide-ranging duties include aviation security, border control, emergency response and cybersecurity.
20. a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
21. Gender inequality acknowledges that men and women are not equal and that gender affects an individual's lived experience. These differences arise from distinctions in biology, psychology, and cultural norms.
22. country that is on its way to becoming an industrialized nation.
23. annual percentage of increase in sales that is consistent with a defined financial policy.

1. economy of all humans of the world.
3. Space Station
4. a form of philosophical monism that holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions.
5. international trade left to its natural course without tariffs.
7. Political dissent refers to any expression designed to convey dissatisfaction with or opposition to the policies of a governing body. Such expression may take forms from vocal disagreement to civil disobedience to the use of violence.
8. international document that states basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled.
9. Popular culture is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of the practices, beliefs and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects.
11. a region of Earth's stratosphere.
12. an Act of the United States Congress that was signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001.
13. The deliberate modification of the characteristics of an organism by manipulating its genetic material.
14. a large increase in crop production in developing countries
15. the politically motivated use of computers and information
17. rapid increase in numbers.
19. A replicant