EVR Chapter 6

The human population is approximately ________.

Which of the following best describes the human population from early times to the present?

If a population roughly doubles in the course of 50 years, its growth rate would be close to ________%.

The world population growth rate is currently close to ________%.

The most accurate terms describing the trend over the past 50 years for human use of natural resources are ________.

Malthus was responsible for ________.

Which of the following statements about growth rate and population size is true?

When birth rates decline, what happens to a given population?

Which of the following are the three principal effects of a human population that determine its impact on the environment (the IPAT model)?

Which part of the IPAT model represents the influence of wealth and its environmental impact?

Which large country is currently experiencing zero or even negative population growth?

Ignoring migration, the age structure of a human population likely to increase in size will have what shape? Ignoring migration, the age structure of a human population likely to decrease in size will have what shape? Ignoring migration, the age structure diagram of a human population likely to maintain a relatively stable size will have what shape?

In a country where there are increasingly more households, ________.

According to the IPAT model, technology that enhances our acquisition of minerals, fossil fuels, timber, and ocean fish ________.

The view held by both Malthus and Paul Ehrlich suggests that depletion of resource supplies due to greater numbers of people ________.

Despite dire predictions in the past, humans still inhabit Earth. A few economists would argue that this is because ________.

Which of these statements about the growth of the human population is true?

If a country has a growth rate of 2%, how long will it take to double its population?

Why do we study demography?

What is the maximum population size that a given environment can sustain?

Of the following, which provide the most complete picture of whether a population of humans grows, shrinks, or remains stable?

What occurs during the final stage, the post-industrial stage, of the demographic transition model?

When an agrarian economy transitions to an industrial economy, what effect does it have on the population?

How do women cause a reduction in the TFR?

Which of the following statements about Earth's carrying capacity for humans is true?

Which of the following was a factor in helping to reduce total fertility rate of developed countries in the recent past?

Drag the labels to the appropriate targets. Pink labels indicate what each age class represents. Blue labels indicate how the population is expected to change over time.

What was the overall trend in household size from 1970 to 2000? What percentage of households in 2000 had 3 or fewer people? In comparison to 1970, the overall percentage of households with 4 or more people in 2000______. Which of the following statements best describes the implications of household size for energy consumption and land use and development? If current trends continue, with parents in the U.S. choosing to have fewer children on average (for example, 1 or 2 children versus 3 or more), how will future household sizes be affected?

Look at the age-structure pyramids. The numbers between the bars (in the middle of the graphs) serve as the y-axis. What do these numbers represent? What do the bars on the graphs represent? In 2014, how many 25- to 29-year-old women lived in Niger? The colors of the bars on the graphs indicate the life stage of the people in that age class. What does it mean if a bar is colored red? The 2014 age-structure pyramid for Niger indicates that the population of Niger ________. In the Netherlands in 2014, which age classes contained the largest number of people? In the Netherlands in 2014, people between the ages of 45 and 54 made up the largest percentage of the population. What factor is most likely to have caused this bulge in the age pyramid? Assuming that current trends continue, predict how the age structure of the Netherlands in 2034 will likely differ from that in 2014. Based on a comparison of the age-structure pyramids, which of the following would likely be a higher priority in the Netherlands than in Niger?

Looking at the figure, you are able to determine ________.

Which climate contains the highest population density? Which of the following climates contains the LOWEST population density? Why does Africa have the highest total fertility rate but a lower population density than parts of southern and eastern Asia? Which region has the highest percentage of its population under age 15? What does a high percentage of population under age 15 tell us about a region's potential for population growth?

The population in part (a) is likely to experience ________ soon.

Which of the following is not one of the world's top five most populous nations?

Replacement fertility ________.

Increasing levels of literacy among women is shown to ________.

Declining death rates due to increased food production and improved medical care while birth rates remain high is characteristic of the ________ stage.

Which of the following countries has the highest population growth rate?

The richest one-fifth of the world's population possesses approximately ________ times the income of the poorest one-fifth, and the richest one-fifth uses over 86% of the world's resources.

In the demographic transition model, the highest population growth rate in a country is likely to occur during ________.

A population which is not growing will have a TFR of ________.

Because of the success of China's population control programs, ________.

What causes a decline in fertility rates?

Which term describes the amount of cumulative land and water required to provide the raw materials a person or population consumes and to dispose of the waste that is produced?

Why are diseases such as AIDS, which reduce population density, undermining the ability of developing countries to make the transition to more modern, industrialized societies?

Why aren't more couples using birth control in Zambia? Birth control in Zambia __________. The number of children in a family in Zambia has largely been determined by __________. To limit the growth of the Zambian population, humanitarian aid agencies and organizations such as UNICEF are focusing on __________. What is the relationship between family income and family size? In general, as family income levels __________.

According to the graph, what type of relationship exists between a nation's total fertility rate and its female secondary school enrollment rate? Which two statements are supported by the graph

If predictions hold true, which two countries will be responsible for adding the most cars to the world's total by 2030? You are an automobile engineer focused on decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide produced per mile driven. What are you working on? Who sets automobile efficiency standards in the United States? You work for the Department of Transportation in the United States. You are sent to the country that has done the most to encourage electric car use to learn how they did so. Where do you go? When it comes to climate change, which of the following is the least desirable way to produce the electricity for electric vehicles?

You are an environmental toxicologist studying permethrin. Your research confirms what the EPA has said about this chemical. What did you find? You have developed a new way to keep mosquitoes away from sleeping people at night by dissipating the gas that attracts them. What gas did you focus on? Which of the following is most likely to have the highest concentration of permethrin? If what happened in Madagascar holds true for other locations, which of the following will happen? Which of the following is likely the most effective way to increase the use of mosquito nets for their intended purpose?

Which of the following is currently contributing to low birth rates across much of Europe? Birthrate is which of the following? Why is Denmark so concerned with its low birth rates? Which of the following do most experts believe will be the result of low birth rates in Europe? Which of the following countries is closest to replacement fertility rate?