Population Growth
Population growth was slow but became rapid around when
What is the 1800s?
These can slow down the birthrate and increase the death rate.
What are limiting factors?
What environmental factors cause weathering (breakdown of rocks)?
What is rain, wind, freezing, and thermal expansion and contraction?
An upside down pyramid indicates that a population is doing this.
What is decreasing?
A person who studies of how the natural world works
What is an environmental scientist?
Population growth is an issue because
What is resource demand increases?
What is the greatest single factor slowing population growth?
What is family planning?
Monoculture falls under which type of agriculture
What is industrial agriculture?
A pyramid shape indicates that a population is doing this.
What is increasing?
A person who is involved in social movements to protect the natural world
What is an environmentalist?
Population growth is affected by these four factors.
What is # of births, # of deaths, immigration and emigration?
What are some examples of things women need to be successful in the economy?
What is access education, equal rights, contraceptives and family planning?
What is the difference between inorganic and organic fertilizers?
What is inorganic is mined or synthetically made and organic is natural organism waste?
This is the type of country will have a rapid population growth soon due to the need for young individuals
What is a developing country?
Services that arise from the normal functioning of natural services (free services from nature)
What are ecosystem services?
Are European countries experiencing a negative or positive population growth rate?
What is negative?
If childbirth is delayed, what does it cause?
What is lower population growth rate?
70% of all fresh water used by humans goes to
What is irrigation?
A age structure shape that has the majority of individuals being middle-aged and very few being very young and very old indicates a population is doing this.
What is remaining stable?
What type of resources are minerals, oil and coal?
What are nonrenewable resources?
Are South African countries experiencing a high or low infant mortality rate?
What is high?
A population's growth rate is 1.9%. How many years will it take the population to double?
doubling time (years) = 70 / growth percent
What is 36.8 years?
When fertilizer leaches into waterbodies it causes?
What is a dead zone or eutrophication?
These types of countries have low birth rates, low death rates, financial stability, and easy access to health care.
What are developed countries?
Explains the declining death and birth rates in countries as they become more developed
What is demographic transition?