diff --git a/opentelemetry-api/src/opentelemetry/trace/__init__.py b/opentelemetry-api/src/opentelemetry/trace/__init__.py
index b8573e58852..b141e466aa7 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-api/src/opentelemetry/trace/__init__.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-api/src/opentelemetry/trace/__init__.py
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@
     finally:
         child.end()
 
-Applications should generally use a single global tracer source, and use either
-implicit or explicit context propagation consistently throughout.
+Applications should generally use a single global TracerProvider, and use
+either implicit or explicit context propagation consistently throughout.
 
 .. versionadded:: 0.1.0
 .. versionchanged:: 0.3.0
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ def tracer_provider() -> TracerProvider:
             # if we raised an exception trying to instantiate an
             # abstract class, default to no-op tracer impl
             logger.warning(
-                "Unable to instantiate TracerProvider from tracer source factory.",
+                "Unable to instantiate TracerProvider from factory.",
                 exc_info=True,
             )
             _TRACER_PROVIDER = DefaultTracerProvider()
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ def tracer_provider() -> TracerProvider:
 def set_preferred_tracer_provider_implementation(
     factory: ImplementationFactory,
 ) -> None:
-    """Set the factory to be used to create the tracer source.
+    """Set the factory to be used to create the global TracerProvider.
 
     See :mod:`opentelemetry.util.loader` for details.
 
diff --git a/opentelemetry-api/tests/trace/test_globals.py b/opentelemetry-api/tests/trace/test_globals.py
index 6971810d173..7c4d8e3549b 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-api/tests/trace/test_globals.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-api/tests/trace/test_globals.py
@@ -8,15 +8,14 @@ class TestGlobals(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         importlib.reload(trace)
 
-        # this class has to be declared after the importlib
-        # reload, or else it will inherit from an old
-        # TracerProvider, rather than the new TraceSource ABC.
-        # created from reload.
+        # This class has to be declared after the importlib reload, or else it
+        # will inherit from an old TracerProvider, rather than the new
+        # TracerProvider ABC created from reload.
 
         static_tracer = trace.DefaultTracer()
 
         class DummyTracerProvider(trace.TracerProvider):
-            """TraceSource used for testing"""
+            """TracerProvider used for testing"""
 
             def get_tracer(
                 self,
@@ -35,7 +34,7 @@ def tearDown() -> None:
         importlib.reload(trace)
 
     def test_get_tracer(self):
-        """trace.get_tracer should proxy to the global tracer source."""
+        """trace.get_tracer should proxy to the global tracer provider."""
         from_global_api = trace.get_tracer("foo")
         from_tracer_api = trace.tracer_provider().get_tracer("foo")
         self.assertIs(from_global_api, from_tracer_api)