Exam 19: Urbanization, population, and The Environment

By the year 2030,the worldwide population in towns and cities of the developing world will account for a little:

White families who moved into gentrified communities usually professed liberal attitudes toward people of color.Therefore,gentrification failed to increase the dialogue between the new white residents and the former black residents because:

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

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

According to sociologists,the New Orleans victims of Hurricane Katrina were disproportionately affected by the disaster because:

Explain the three-stage process of the demographic transition and why demographers are debating whether there may be a second demographic transition in industrialized countries.If a second demographic transition occurs,what effect will the factors have on world population growth?

The following that best describes the migration of people within the United States during the past 10 years is:

The first cities emerged about 3500 B.C.E.in the:

The number of years an average person can expect to live is called:

Reducing population growth might happen as a result of a second demographic transition because:

According to David Harvey,industrial capitalism continually restructures space in its pursuit of profits.This theoretical approach is known as:

The process of the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that acts like the glass on a greenhouse and causes the average temperature of the earth to rise is called:

The way in which globalization has affected the migration patterns of Americans is that:

Although slowing during the last decade,the minority population within suburbs is still growing faster than that of whites.

The global city takes on a geography of "centrality and marginality," meaning that:

The type of process that urbanization in the twenty-first century is known as is:

A geography of "centrality and marginality" in global cities refers to the fact that:

The causes of the substantial human effect on the environment are:

The potential number of children women are biologically able to bear is known as:

Elijah Anderson found that gentrification generally improved conditions for the neighborhood's poorer residents.