Exam 7: Human Population Change and the Environment

The current trends in human population growth suggest: 1. There has been a slight decline in global fertility rates. 2. The growth rate of human populations has increased from 1.2 in the 1960s to 2.2 today despite decreases in the fertility rate. 3. Population experts expect that the human population growth rate will attain zero population growth by the end of the 21^st century.

To date, all highly developed and moderately developed countries with more advanced economies have gone through a demographic transition. Describe the four steps in this process in terms of the impact birth and death rates have on population growth.

Explain why cockroach populations will not expand indefinitely and take over the entire world. Include in your discussion appropriate definitions of population growth terminology such as: exponential growth, carrying capacity, and environmental resistant factors.

The young age structure of urban areas can be attributed to:

A dieback or population crash often occurs after a species ________ its environmental carrying capacity.

Compact development in urban areas benefits the environment in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

__________ is the applied branch of sociology that deals with population statistics.

Which of the following is TRUE about Thomas Malthus? 1 Malthus was the first to point out that human population growth was not always desirable. 2 Malthus warned that the inevitable consequences of population growth would be famine, disease since human population can increase faster than its food supply. 3 Malthus has proven to be incorrect since human populations have increased to over 6 billion people without expanding our niche.

Urbanization is the process by which people move from cities to rural areas.

The worldwide total fertility rate is currently:

Who was the first scientist to sound the alarm about the growth of the human population and the ability of the earth to handle a large population of humans?

What change in human population growth is predicted by the United Nation's population models?

Cities with more than 10 million inhabitants are known as ________.

Population growth momentum can be either positive or negative.

Which of the following is an example of environmental resistance?

Why is it impossible to precisely determine the Earth's carrying capacity for the human population?

What is likely to happen to the population represented by the age structure pyramid labeled C?

What term or phrase do population ecologists use to describe the maximum number of individuals of a given species that a particular environment can support for an indefinite period, assuming there are no changes in the environment?

The applied branch of sociology that deals with population statistics is:

Who was Thomas Malthus and what were his ideas about human population growth? Was he correct or not? Justify your answer.