Exam 12: Population and Environment

Deterioration of city services is an example of

Descriptive decline refers to a deterioration in city services and social amenities of urban life.

Functionalists emphasize the need for human beings to become more sensitive to the

Gender, age, race, religion, and national origin are among the components of what is termed population composition.

Global warming ranks very high in terms of public concern.

Movement of people from one nation to another is called

The three factors that determine population change within a given society are

Thomas Malthus focused primarily on the antagonism between the human need for food and

Human ecology looks at the relationships between humans and their human environment and institutions.

The United States currently has a growth rate of 10 percent, which means the United States population will double in 100 years.

The "baby-bust cohort" represents the huge growth in population that took place during the high fertility period following World War II.

The potential number of children that could be born if every woman of childbearing age bore all the children she possibly could is called

In 2011, world population had reached

A boom in the birth rate in Texas, Idaho, Florida, and Arizona is the biggest factor in these states' population growth.

By 2015, most of the largest urban areas will be in the developing world.

____________ occurs in a city when new people or activities encroach on an area and eventually displace earlier inhabitants.

Economist Paul Krugman suggests that achieving goals in greenhouse gas emissions reduction will require

The baby-boom-echo generation is

The theory of urban development that emphasizes wedge shapes extending from the center to the periphery is called the

The new form of urban organization referred to as edge cities