Exam 19: Urbanization, population, and The Environment

Of the world's increase in energy use between 2011 and 2035,China and India,both of which rely heavily upon the use of petroleum for energy production,will account for about:

Cities can be seen as a series of concentric circles with the inner ring designated as the inner city and the outer rings as:

The maximum number of years that an individual could possibly live is called:

Pedro lives in a small neighborhood in the heart of a large city.Lately,burglaries and assaults have occurred near his block.Pedro and his neighbors believe that they have not seen any crime on their block because they know each other,notice when strangers or strange cars are in the neighborhood,and have a mix of older retired couples and young families who use the neighborhood at different times of the day.Jane Jacobs would see this as an example of:

According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)report,the planet's temperature is rapidly rising.The panel pointed out that the past 11 of 12 years have been the warmest on record.The cause of this warming is considered to be:

The belief that population growth tends to outstrip expansion of food production,leading to natural curbs on the population such as famine and war,is called:

Demographers refer to changes in the ratio of births to deaths in industrialized countries as:

The world's rich are the largest consumers of goods and services and suffer the most from its negative effects.

Cities as we know them are rapidly being rendered irrelevant by cyberspace and the global economy.

Gases previously used in aerosols and refrigerants have caused:

factors lowering fertility rates in the second demographic transition include:

Demography is customarily treated as a branch of sociology because the factors that influence the level of births and deaths in a given group of society are largely social and cultural.

Mike Davis refers to a "conscious 'hardening' of the city surface against the poor." Describe how this process is affecting the city to which he is referring.Is this process occurring on a global scale? Explain.

The first major sociological theories of urban life were developed at the University of Chicago,leading to the name "the Chicago School."

A term originally referring to an ancient Greek utopian planned city-state but now applied to a "city of cities" is:

Although today sociologists tend to use the terms interchangeably,ghettos are areas where particular people are forced to live whereas slums are:

The northeast corridor of the United States,an area covering some 450 miles from north of Boston to south of Washington,D.C.,has 44 million people.This area is referred to as a:

The known energy resources are not sufficient for the developing world to attain a level of energy consumption comparable to that of the developed world.

According to Manuel Castells,megacities are:

According to demographic transition theory,the stage in which high population growth takes place is: