Population Basics
What is the term for the number of individuals in a given area?
What is population density?
In the formula r×Nr \times Nr×N, what does "r" represent?
What is per capita rate of increase?
Name a density-independent factor affecting populations.
What is frost, wildfire, or flood?
When was the Great Pacific Garbage Patch discovered?
What is 1997?
What type of renewable energy comes from the sun?
What is solar energy?
When birth rates are higher than death rates, what happens to the population?
What is it increases?
What type of growth creates an S-shaped curve?
What is logistic growth?
What is an example of a density-dependent factor?
What is predation, disease, or competition?
Which health advancement helped increase life expectancy in the 20th century?
What are antibiotics?
What does Smart Growth help prevent in cities?
what is urban sprawl
Name one factor that can cause population decline.
What is disease, lack of food, or high death rate?
Which factor is added to exponential growth to create logistic growth?
What is carrying capacity (K)?
What is the term for large areas of floating plastic debris in oceans?
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
What major epidemic decreased the global population in 1918?
What is the Spanish flu?
What large solar project is located in the Mojave Desert?
What is the Ivanpah Solar Station?
What is the maximum population size an environment can support called?
What is carrying capacity?
What is it called when a population grows faster as it gets larger?
What is exponential growth?
Which resource gets overused in areas of high human population density?
What is water or land?
What environmental policy was introduced by China in 1980?
What is the "one-child policy"
Name a renewable energy source that is very efficient (90%+)
What is hydropower?
What is the global human population as of 2025?
What is about 8 billion?
If a deer herd grows by 10% per year starting with 1,000 deer, how many new deer are added after one year?
What is 100?
Name one environmental issue caused by urbanization.
What is habitat loss or pollution?
In what year did the human population hit 1 billion?
What is around 1800?
What technology helps store renewable energy for use later?
What are batteries?