Exam 14: Population, Urbanization, and the Environment

The three basic processes of concern to demographers are ______.

Describe two reasons why people migrate and include one push and one pull factor. Describe the regulation of borders that they might encounter. Address two moral arguments for not regulating migration.

A ______ may assert that pollution brings with it high profits and pay for those who adversely affect the environment.

______ is the scientific study of population, especially its growth, decline, as well as the movement of people.

Which of the following are water-related environmental concerns?

What would be considered a pull factor as it relates to migration?

______ is the decline in the water supply because of the degradation and deterioration of soil and vegetation.

What are three things that you think the United States can do to reduce environmental degradation? Using a conflict perspective, why isn't the United States doing more?

Discuss the four stages of the demographic transition theory.

It is estimated that ______percent of Mexico's population lives in the United States.

Demography is the scientific study of population, especially its growth and decline, as well as the movement of people.

Deaths from ozone pollution could increase by 5 percent by 2050.

In what ways are fertility rates affected by economic and social factors?

Which one of the following describes the fact that capitalism requires constant productive growth?

Discuss the concepts of urbanization and suburbanization. Select two types of specific urban or suburban types described in the text and explain them with examples. Which type of area--urban or suburban--is growing, and by what measure?

______ involves economic and environmental changes that meet the needs of the present, especially of the world's poor, without jeopardizing the needs of the future.

Which of the following are characteristics of a global city?

Mary lives in a community where there are guards and surveillance cameras in every corner of the development. She moved here, away from the city, to escape the crime problem. Mary lives in a ______ community.

Which one of the following is a factor in the decline of mortality rates in certain countries?

There is depletion of ______ in the Earth's polar regions.