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The maximum number of individuals an environment can support for a long period of time
What is Carrying Capacity
100
People driven from their homes by severe environmental damage.
What is Environmental Refugees
100
Children born between 1945-1965.
What is a baby boomer
100
Help to control the size of families and in relation, population growth. A) Unexpected Deaths B) Disease C) Birth control and family planning
What is birth control and family planning
100
Which of the following would cause a population to grow quickly? A) Many offspring are produced from each pregnancy. B) Reproduction usually occurs more than once in life. C) Members of the population begin to reproduce at a young age. D) Any of these factors would cause a population to grow quickly.
What is D) Any of these factors would cause a population to grow quickly.
200
those resources that limit the growth of a certain population.
What is Limiting resources
200
Moved around from place to place to follow game animals and prosperous plants at various times of the year.
What is Hunter-gatherers
200
Where most of the increase in human population occurs.
What is stage developing countries
200
Allows the environment to rebuild, repair and allows a country to become more stabilized.
What is slowing down population growth
200
Refugees from Somalia are considered environmental refugees because A) the are fleeing war B)they are searching for food C) they are leaving an environmentally damaged homeland D) they are depleting the health-care system of their host country
What is B)they are searching for food
300
The combined effect of all the factors that limit population growth.
What is Environmental Resistance
300
Extreme radiation contamination caused by a nuclear power plant explosion in which city of the Ukraine
What is Chernobyl
300
Both birth and death rates are high in pre-industrial societies, and the population grows slowly if at all.
What is stage one of the demographic transition model
300
Have the lowest birth rate, but consume the most of Earth’s resources
What is Developed nations or countries
300
The cholera outbreak in Lima, Peru, was caused by A) The inability to provide clean water for such a rapidly growing urban population B) Inadequate medical care C) Widespread malnutrition D) A population explosion of rats and disease-carrying insects
What is A) The inability to provide clean water for such a rapidly growing urban population
400
The rate at which a population would grow if every new individual survived to adulthood and reproduced at its maximum capacity.
What is Biotic Potential
400
Caused by consuming unsafe drinking water.
What is waterborne parasites and diseases.
400
1900-1910 The United States welcomed these.
What is immigrants (Fact:about 9 million to be exact!)
400
A common issue amongst developed nations is under consumption. True or false?
What is False. Over consumption is an issue amongst developed nations.
400
What was the most important factor leading to the explosive growth of the human population during the last 200 years? A) An increase in birth rates B) A decrease in death rates C) Birth rates increased while death rates decreased D) A decrease in the number of people living in poverty
What is C) Birth rates increased while death rates decreased
500
number of deaths + number of emigrants > number of births + number of immigrants
What is Population decrease
500
The amount of people forced to live on the streets or in shantytowns increases.
What is the increase of cities and urbanization
500
Caused a delay on marriages and less money to raise children during the 1930's.
What is the Great Depression
500
Having children after 20, only having 3 and having them a couple of years apart.
What is sustainable family planning
500
Because birth rates have begun to fall, demographers expect that the human population of the earth will A) soon stabilize at the level it is today (about 6 billion) B) Begin to decrease until it is only half the current population by the end of the twenty-first century C) Continue to increase for a short time and then decrease to current levels by the end of the twenty-first century D) stabilize somewhere around 10 billion
What is D) stabilize somewhere around 10 billion