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General Population
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100
The ratio of total live births to total population. This is usually usually the dominant factor in determining the rate of population growth.
What is birth rate?
100
The difference between birth and deaths in a population in a given year.
What is Natural Increase?
100
Any of a class of materials of biological origin occurring within the Earth's crust that can be used as a source of energy.
What are fossil fuels?
100
English economist and demographer who is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
100
1945
When did World War II end?
200
Lesser Economically Developed Country
What is an LEDC?
200
Occurs when the average age of a population is getting older
What is Ageing population?
200
This expression refers to the global peak in oil production, and occurs when the amount of oil produced worldwide reaches a peak and starts a permanent decline.
What is peak oil?
200
This person argued that population determines agricultural methods. A major point of her book on population was that "necessity is the mother of invention". It was her great belief that humanity would always find a way and was quoted in saying "The power of ingenuity would always outmatch that of demand".
Who is Ester Boserup?
200
In 1484, Portugal rejected his "Enterprise of the Indies" plan, so he sought support in Spain. Discovered a new continent but thought it was India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
A generational group as defined in demographics, statistics, or market research.
What is a cohort?
300
The process of obtaining information from every member of a population
What is a census?
300
A natural resource which cannot be produced, grown, generated, or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate, once depleted there is no more available for future needs.
What is a finite resource?
300
Official program initiated in the late 1970s and early 1980s by the central government of China, the purpose of which was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each. The rationale for implementing the policy was to reduce the growth rate of China's enormous population.
What is the One Child Policy?
300
This Vietnamese city was formerly known as Saigon.
Where is Ho Chi Min City?
400
The average annual number of deaths during a year per 1000 population
What is death rate?
400
The ratio of people who defined as dependent (under 15 years old and above 64 years old)
What is dependency ratio?
400
Using a resource in such a way so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged
What is sustainability?
400
"educational, comprehensive medical or social activities which enable individuals, including minors, to determine freely the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which this may be achieved."
What is Family Planning?
400
This is the Southern tropic, and it marks the most southerly latitude at which the Sun can appear directly overhead.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
500
The average number of years a person is expected to live
What is life expectancy?
500
Describes the way in which people are spread across the earth’s surface. Patterns of distribution are affected by physical factors and human factors.
What is population distribution?
500
Usable energy derived from replenishable sources such as the Sun (solar energy), wind (wind power), rivers (hydroelectric power), hot springs (geothermal energy), tides (tidal power), and biomass (biofuels).
What is a renewable resource? (Or sustainable resource, infinite resource, alternative energy or green energy)
500
7 billion
What is the estimated number of people on earth by the end of this year?
500
Social Historical Environmental Economical Political Techniological + Pattern Quantification and Exception + Border Orientation Legend Title Scale Source. (OK, so this is an easy one, but you need to know this. How many of you would have known the answer I'd asked you the other way around??)
What is SHEEPT, PQE and BOLTSS?