Exam 19: Population, Urbanization, and the Environment

The massive development and inhabitating of towns surrounding cities is a process known as:

The rapid increase in suburbanization in the United States occurred in the:

The process of more-affluent groups moving back into cities and renovating dilapidated buildings and neighborhoods is called:

Given past and recent rates of exploding population growth, what is the most widely accepted official prediction for the global population in 2050?

According to the text, minorities move to the suburbs for the same reasons that other people do, such as to have better schools and less crime. According to the chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, suburbanization:

Demography is considered part of the discipline of sociology because it focuses on:

Explain the argument between the Malthusians and those contrary to Malthus. What is the key issue at stake? How do the two sides predict the future differently?

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:

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

________________ sociology tended to minimize or ignore the importance of human impact on the environment, whereas ___________ sociology studies interactions between humans and the natural environment.

A sociologist wants to measure the current infant mortality rate in Niger. Accordingly, the sociologist:

The potential number of children an average woman is biologically able to bear is known as _____________; whereas the average number of live-born children an average woman actually has is known as _____________.

The number of deaths per thousand of population per year is known as:

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

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:

In modern societies, most of the population lives in:

Ehn plans a sociology project that will apply Logan and Molotch's theory to her study of Miami. She looks at:

As an important factor in urban development, Manuel Castells emphasized the struggles of underprivileged groups participating in the process of:

What are some of the key challenges facing rural America? Why, despite these challenges, do many rural sociologists remain optimistic about the future of rural life?

A demographer wants to study the possibility of a second demographic transition, so she studies the region with the lowest population growth. Which region does she study?