Vocabulary
Charts/Graphs
Quality of Life
Impact
100
The maximum number of individuals that an area can support. The limit exists due to resource availability.
What is Carrying Capacity?
100
The type of growth displayed between the years 1960 and 2012.
What is exponential growth?
100
This allows citizens to develop longer life expectancy through access to preventative care and treatment of illnesses.
What is healthcare?
100
This is an issue facing developing nations due to a lack of infrastructure for waste management and sanitation.
What is water pollution?
200
Survivorship type that shows many offspring being produced, and very few living into adulthood. Examples include oysters, insects, and most trees.
What is Type 3 survivorship?
200
The shape of this population pyramid.
What is Expansive?
200
This contributes to a good quality of life by allowing citizens of a nation to gain access to literacy skills and job training.
What is education?
200
This nation generally has a lower ecological footprint due to less consumption of resources.
What is a developing nation?
300
The establishment of domesticated plants and animals for human benefit. Allowed the establishment of permanent residences.
What is the agricultural revolution?
300
The population pyramid shape that represents a declining population.
What is contracting?
300
The term for the number of people who do not have a job in a society.
What is Unemployment rate?
300
This practice, often driven by poverty and agricultural demand in developing nations, is a major contributor to loss of biodiversity.
What is deforestation?
400
The number of children who die before their first birthday per 1000 live births.
What is infant mortality rate (IMR)?
400
What is contracting?
400
The term that describes a financial situation below livable standards.
What is Poverty?
400
This term refers to the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an individual, organization, or country, often higher in developed nations.
What is a Carbon Footprint?
500
A country categorized by high GDP, life expectancy, and educational access; with low IMR. Population pyramid may be stationary or contracting.
What is a developed nation?
500
The shape of most developing nations can be described as one of these two (you only need to name one)
What is Contracting and Stationary?
500
The organization that developed the HDI and the 17 Goals of sustainablity.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
500
This concept, aimed at developing nations, allows for growth while protecting the environment for future generations.
What is Sustainable Development?