Population and Resources
The largest population that the resources of a given environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
Too many people relative to the resources and technology locally available to maintain an adequate standard of living.
What is overpopulation?
The person who thought there was a finite optimum population size in relation to food supply, and that any increase in population beyond this point would lead to a decline in the standard of living.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
(neo-Malthusians may be accepted)
The person who suggested an increase in population stimulated a change in agricultural techniques so that more food could be produced.
Who is Esther Boserup/ resource optimists/ anti Malthusians?
When not all people have access to nutritious food to meet their needs for a healthy and active life.
What is food insecurity?
This is a sustainability indicator that expresses the relationship between the use of natural resources and the ability to regenerate resources.
What is ecological footprint?
When there are far more resources in an area that can be used by the people living there.
What is underpopulation?
The ultimate check on population growth.
What is lack of food?
An improvement in technology will lead to this according to anti-Malthusians
What is unchecked population growth?
What is:
soil exhaustion, Drought, Floods, tropical cyclones, Pests, disease
(other answers possible)
The capacity of an area or ecosystem to generate an ongoing supply of resources and to absorb its wastes.
What is biocapacity?
The number of people who, when working with all the available resources, will produce the highest-per capita economic return
What is optimum population?
The three consequences or catastrophes predicted to happen in order to balance the population.
What is war, disease, and famine?
The greatest resources in the world, according to Boserup.
What is knowledge/technology?
2 human causes of food shortage
What is:
●low capital investment
●rapidly rising population
●poor distribution/transport difficulties
●conflict situations
(other possible answers accepted)
This is when human demand exceeds the regenerative capacity of a natural ecosystem.
What is ecological overshoot?
A consequence for underpopulation.
What is less labor to exploit resources/make the country more money?
Population grows at a _______ rate, and food increases at a __________ rate
What is geometric and arithmetic?
The introduction of high-yielding seeds and modern agricultural techniques in developing countries
What is the green revolution?
Things such as war, floods, drought, trade barriers, and climate change that can reduce resource availability.
What are resource constraints?
This is the dominant element of the 6 components that comprise the ecological footprint.
What is carbon footprint?
Three consequences for overpopulation.
What is:
standard of living or quality of life declines, food shortages, water shortages, soil erosion, air pollution, deforestation, declining fish stocks, species extinction, or global warming
Ways to reduce the population that include abstinence/ postponement of marriage which lowered the fertility rate.
What are negative checks?
Three advancements of the green revolution
What is:
○reclaimed land
○draining marshes
○cross breeding cattle
○high yielding variety of crops
○crop techniques
○green houses
○Hydroponics
○fish farming
○Reduced population growth as countries move through the DTM
Things such as increased technology from the green revolution (fertilizers, renewable energy, recycling technology) that increase supplies
What are resource opportunities?