An unusually long period in which little or no rain falls. Occurred in China in the 1870's.
What is drought?
100
A condition in which the population of a country does not grow but remains stable. This condition comes about when the birth rate + immigration = death rate - emigration.
What is zero population growth?
100
One benefit of the One Child Policy.
What is slower population growth? Or zero population growth.
100
Japan created a public transit system and strict regulations about car ownership to address this problem.
What is how population density affects transportation? (Traffic and congestion)
100
Land suitable for growing crops.
What is arable land?
200
A severe shortage of food that results in wide spread hunger. Claimed almost 10 million Chinese lives in the 1870's.
What is famine?
200
The number of births or deaths in a year for every 1,000 people in a population.
What is birth or death rate?
200
Two costs of the One Child Policy.
What is less choice and an aging population with fewer caretakers? (also acceptable due to cultural preferences: gender imbalance)
200
Some threats include water pollution problems including sweage and waste water poison, toxic chemicals and disease spread.
What is how populatino density affects health?
200
The population of a country divided by its total land area.
What is arithmetic population density?
300
One of China's most important leaders. Ruled the new People's Republic of China until his death in 1976. Launched the Great Leap Forward. His photo still hangs in Tienamen Square.
Who is Mao Zedong?
300
This measures how much a population grows in a given year.
What is rate of natural increase?
300
Two costs of the 3 Gorges Dam
What is lost (flooded) cities and habitat?
300
Japan has developed a number of ways to deal with this issue such as futons, smaller appliances, bonsai trees, cremation vs. burial.
What is how population density affects housing?
300
The population of a country divided by its arable land area.
What is physiological population density?
400
A plan launched in 1958 by Mao to help China become a modern industrial country.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
400
The time it takes for a population to double. This happened in China in just 40 years from 1950 - 1990.
What is doubling time?
400
Major benefit of the Three Gorges Dam.
What is clean energy (hydroelectric power)
400
Three ways Japan is dealing with how population density affects land use.
What is 1) build up - earthquake resistant construction ] techniques
2) build underground - subterranean
3) Creating new land - filling wetlands?
400
Where people live in a country, whether crowded together in cities or spread out across the countryside.
What is population distribution?
500
Three ways China is coping with their expanding population.
What is 1) Slow Population Growth
2) Provide more clean energy
3) Promote Economic Growth?
500
Two ways countries are curbing population growth.
What is spending money on health care and education women?
500
Opened in China in 1979 and 1980 to promote economic growth; these have different laws than the rest of the country. Although it created more jobs and a better standard of living it also created income gaps and crime.
What is Special Economic Zones (SEZs)?
500
The most important measure of how well off a country is (besides GDP, it measures health and education of the population).
What is standard of living?
500
The higher the result of the calculation of the number of people in a country divided by its total land area means the more crowded a country.