Exam 15: Population and Urbanization

The largest preindustrial city was ___________.

___________refers to the physical location of people throughout a geographic area;___________ is the term for the number of people within a given geographic area.

According to the categories defined by the United Nations, the United States is a(n)______________ country.

English economist Thomas Malthus argued that the population would increase in a geometric (exponential) progression whereas the food supply would increase only by an arithmetic progression; thus, a ___________occurs.

Define infant mortality, and explain how it is used in the demographic analysis of a population.

Which of these characteristics is common to the women throughout the world who are having the most children?

In 1900, the leading cause of death in the United States was ______________.

Population size, composition, and distribution are also connected to issues such as poverty, racial and ethnic diversity, shifts in the age structure of society, and concerns about environmental degradation. These issues are of interest to researchers in the field of___________ .

In 2012, the U.S. infant mortality rate for African American infants was______________deaths per 1,000 live births.

In 2015, the leading cause of death in the United States was______________ .

Sociologist Ernest Burgess developed the___________ , which is a description of the process of urban growth that views the city as a series of circular areas, each characterized by a different type of land use that developed from a central core.

Over the past several decades, many people have moved from low-income countries to high-income countries throughout the world. This is an example of___________ .

The______________ is the number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a given year.

In Burgess's concentric zone model,___________ is a ring of small cities and towns populated by persons who commute to the central city to work and by wealthy people living on estates.

Neo-Malthusians argue that improving the status of women, reducing religious intolerance, and ending racial discrimination are essential to solving the problem of overpopulation and rapid population growth.

In the concentric zone model developed by Ernest Burgess,___________ includes houses divided into rooms and rented to recent immigrants and poor persons, as well as light manufacturing and businesses such as secondhand stores, pawnshops, and taverns.

During the demographic transition stage of ___________, very little population growth occurs because both birth rates and death rates are low.

Explain the Malthusian concept of doubling and its impact on global population.

When members of the middle and upper-middle classes, usually whites, move into the central city area and renovate existing properties, this is termed ___________.

The ___________emphasizes the part the entire family plays in the migration process. By having family income originating from more than one source, the family is cushioned from the economic woes of the nation that most of the family members think of as "home."