Exam 17: Population, Urbanization, and the Environment

Which country was the first to withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol in 2011?

Fish cannot survive in some lakes in Canada and the northeastern United States due to:

Globalization has eliminated millions of manufacturing jobs, locking out many poor people in Canadian cities.

Urbanization refers to a region that consists of a central city surrounded by smaller cities and their suburbs that are connected economically and, sometimes, politically.

Environmental sociologists, besides studying the interaction between the physical environment and human activities, are generally also environmental activists who try to influence governmental policies.

The New Malthusians point out that between 8000 B.C. and A.D. 1750, the world added an average of only 67 000 people a year, but today that many people are being added every six to seven hours. This is an illustration of the _________.

Jim and Milly are one of 10 couples who have decided to buy and restore an older house in a deteriorated urban neighbourhood. Jim and Milly are part of a movement referred to as_________ _.

What has had the largest impact on the natural environment?

Which model views the city as a series of somewhat circular zones occurring outward from its centre?

What is the study of the size, composition, growth, and distribution of human populations?

In the former Soviet Union, environmental pollution is so severe that_______ .

What is the primary factor that affects the population growth rate of most countries today?

The________ migration rate is the difference between the number of immigrants and emigrants per 1000 population.

The analogy of "the closing of the atmospheric window through which our planet breathes" is more commonly called__________ .

Harold is a demographer in Canada. If he has recently reported that for every 1000 people in the population, there are 15 babies born, which statistic is Harold reporting?

According to the symbolic interactionist perspective, why do women in poor nations bear a large number of children?

A pattern of growth in which numbers double during approximately equal intervals, resulting in an acceleration of growth during the final stages, is referred to as the _________.

What has helped the process of suburbanization?

_________refers to the process by which an increasing proportion of a population lives in cities.

Today, over four-fifths of Canadians live in cities.