Globalization

4. Stated goal: “Help trade flow smoothly, freely, fairly, and predictably”
5. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
8. is our main protection against the Sun’s damaging ultraviolet rays.
10. introducing new genes into an organism to give that organism new traits.
11. the study of heredity through research on genes
12. the U.S. space agency
13. involves some risks, including the accidental creation of disease-causing organisms.
16. Stated goal: “Promote international monetary cooperation; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries”
17. Stated goal: “A world free of poverty”
18. replaced the bulky vacuum tubes used earlier.
19. project sponsored by the United States, Russia, and 14 other nations

1. includes all the financial interactions—among people, businesses, and governments—that cross international borders.
2. Doctors can build three-dimensional images of different organs or regions of the body.
3. those nations with the industrialization, transportation, and business facilities for advanced production of manufactured goods.
6. managing development so that growth can occur, but without destroying air, water, and land resources
7. elimination of trade barriers, such as tariffs, among nations
9. is the voluntary linkage of computer networks around the world
10. helped avert famine and increase crop yields in many parts of the world.
14. became prime locations for new manufacturing operations.
15. The creation of identical copies of DNA, the chemical chains of genes that determine heredity