Exam 6: The Human Population and Urbanization

Which of the following takes the fewest resources to manufacture?

One important trend seen in urban populations is that ____.

The continent with the most rapid population growth is ____.

The first phase of urbanization in the United States was that people moved from ____________________ to relatively large, centrally-located cities.

Of the 30 megacities in existence in 2016, ____.

Cities can't ever be sustainable because they have such high concentrations of people, automobiles, business enterprises, and industries.

Residents of dispersed cities that grow outward often rely on motor vehicles for most of their transportation, but residents of compact cities that grow ____________________ get around by walking, biking, or using mass transit.

Car-sharing networks work by ____.

The most important factor contributing to a high infant mortality rate is usually ____.

Although motor vehicles are associated with pollution and other environmental concerns, one advantage of them is that ____.

____________________ involves the provision of education and clinical services that can help couples to choose how many children to have and when to have them.

People who have to leave their homes and sometimes their countries because of water or food shortages, soil erosion, or some other form of environmental degradation or depletion are called ____________________.

Scientists can now predict with precision the environmental limits that will control growth of the human population.

An eco-city is ____.

The population of a country will decline if its age structure diagram ____.

Areas on the outskirts of cities where people build shacks from corrugated metal, plastic sheets, scrap wood, and other scavenged building materials are called ____.

Effective family planning programs have __________________ rates of HIV infection.

____________________ is a set of policies and tools that allow and encourage more environmentally sustainable urban development with less dependence on cars.