Ecological Foot Print
Carrying Capacity
Family Planning
Demographic Transition
Birth and Death Rates
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What is an ecological footprint?
The impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.
100
What is carrying capacity
The largest population an area can support with its resources
100
What is the definition of Family Planning?
a social science that applies the principles of population ecology to the study of statistical change in human populations. family planning. the effort to plan the number and spacing of children in a family.
100
Demography is...
The Structure of Populations
100
What is CBR?
The # of births per 1000, per given year
200
What is something you can do to REDUCE your eco footprint
Carpooling to school everyday, Eating a more vegetarian diet, Living in a smaller home
200
List 3 possible limiting factors
Food, water, space, weather
200
What could a drawback to family planning be?
Too much of a population decrease
200
What stage has high birth and death rates?
Pre Industrial
200
The Death rate is the number of deaths per ____ persons in a given year
1000
300
Rank these countries on their ecological footprint from greatest to least. Aruba, United States, South Korea.
Aruba, United States, South Korea
300
Give an example of an r-strategist organism
Saguaro cactus
300
What does TFR stand for?
Total Fertility Rate
300
In which phase of demographic transition does the population grow the least and explain why
In post Industrial because of family planning, and woman getting more jobs
300
What is the formula for population growth?
births+immagration - deaths+emmigration
400
What is the most significant reason for increased levels of Co2 in the atmosphere?
Increased Deforestation
Less Combustion
Excessive use of fertilizer
Greenhouse gases
1. Increased deforestation
400
Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population is known as __________.
Limiting factor
400
What is a drug that you are given while following family planning
Birth Control
400
What stage is the US in ( preindustrial, transitional, industrial, post industrial)?
Post Industrial
400
Industria has a population of 200,000 people, if 600 people a year die and there are 1,000 births annually, what is the growth rate? How long will it take to double?
Growth rate= 3.5%
Double rate= 20 years
500
Rank all five of these countries by their ecological footprint from least to greatest.
Luxembourg, Japan, United Kingdom, Israel, Argentina
Argentina, Japan, Israel, United Kingdom, Luxembourg
500
What type of growth is this?
Logistic
500
Alongside of family planning, What are 3 other ways we can reduce population growth?
Improve health care for infants, children and women
Develop and implement national population policies
Improve status of women
Provide more education (especially to girls)
Greatly reduce unsustainable patterns of production and consumption
Sharply reduce poverty!
500
Which Population Pyramid is rapid growth, and which is slow growth?
Left is slow, right is rapid
500
A Population has a CBR of 27 and a CDR of 33. How many years will it take for the population to double?
50 years- 47-33 over 1000, then that number divided by 70