Exam 12: Population and Environment

__________ percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions come from the United States.

The rapid world population growth we are currently experiencing is caused by

The boom in population in the western part of the United States is due primarily to

The Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich argued in The Population Bomb that even those who have enough food will suffer the effects of ecosystem destruction and environmental pollution.

Although much of the world's pollution comes from cities, they also can be "green" places to live. One such plan involves

Migration is usually a burden in terms of costs and loss of social networks, so migrants are usually

According to the __________ strategy, fertility is a pattern of behavior tied closely to the institutional and organizational structure of society.

According to demographic transition theory, the primary factor that affects growth rates is

Many industrialized nations are experiencing population declines and depend on immigration for population growth. A notable exception is ______________, where population increase within the country and immigration both contribute to population growth.

A megalopolis is

A relatively dense and permanent concentration of people who secure their livelihood chiefly through nonagricultural activities is a

Although some 62 million people have moved from less to more developed nations, nearly as many have moved from one developing country to another.

The difference between births and deaths, plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants, per 1,000 population is known as the

Comparatively high American wages have served as a _____________ factor contributing to the illegal immigration patterns of people from Mexico.

Richard Easterlin's work in charting population growth has shown that small generations typically produce large growth and large generations typically produce small growth.

_________________ theorists approach the environment by examining the precarious balance among the living and nonliving components comprising the biosphere.

According to the __________ perspective, governments fashion policies designed to produce changes in demographic behavior.

According to Sassen, changes in the world economy are transforming major urban centers into what she calls the

Demographic transition theory relates changes in birth and death rates to processes of modernization.

Demographers John Knodel and Etienne van de Walle studied the relationship between development and birth rate in the historical record of European fertility. Which of the following was NOT one of the sources of information they used?