Exam 14: Population, Urbanization, and the Environment

Which of the following are consequences of global warming?

The most notable deforestation in the world is taking place in ______.

Imagine you are managing a Twitter account for an organization aimed at drawing awareness to the effects of global warming. What types of posts would you make? Who would your target audience be? Is social media effective for raising awareness?

Humans are beginning to exceed the ______ of the Earth.

Joe lives in a ______, which is situated about 5 miles outside the city of Philadelphia.

In the United States, an area must have more than 50,000 inhabitants to be considered urban.

World cities are more technologically advanced than global cities.

Joe runs away from his home country of Afghanistan to escape religious persecution. He is an example of a(n) ______.

Discuss any two environmental problems and the negative consequences associated with each of these problems. Name one type of global response to environmental problems and provide an example.

By 2100, there will be as many as 12.3 billion people in the world.

Describe how macro and micro factors play a role in mortality and life expectancy.

______ is the study on poisons and insecticides that heavily influenced the awareness of environmental problems in the United States during the 1960s.

Economically, immigration has had a negative effect on the economy of the United States, as well as on the economy of other developed nations.

Chicago is an example of a metropolis.

Lagos, Nigeria, is the fastest-growing megacity in the world.

The U.S. teenage birthrate has been increasing for the past 5 years.

The area between Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC, in the United States is classified as a ______.

Projections are that the global population will reach ______ billion by 2050.