Exam 15: Population, Urbanization, and Environment

Discuss whether rich nations, especially Canada, will be affected by uncontrolled population growth in the least economically developed countries. Why or why not?

Durkheim's "mechanical solidarity"parallels Tönnies's Gemeinschaft.

Why do sociologists study the environment?

What are the reasons people should be concerned by loss of biodiversity?

Which continent's age-sex pyramid would have the widest base, inclining sharply to a narrow top?

People in high-income countries use ________ percent of the world's commercial energy.

The infant mortality rate is derived by dividing total population by number of deaths of infants, and multiplying the result by 1000.

Thomas Malthus expected population growth to increase according to a "geometric progression."

Robert Park and Louis Wirth emphasized the positive consequences of urbanism.

Subtracting the number of emigrants from the number of immigrants and dividing the difference by 1000 is a way of calculating:

Factories and toxic dumps are as likely to be constructed in an affluent area as in a poor one.

As of 2012, what was the approximate population of the entire world?

Movement from one region to another within the borders of a country is called:

According to Goldberger, how has decentralization resulted in changes to the importance of public space?

Controlling birth was uncertain at best until:

Which of the following is true regarding water supply?

Infant mortality rates among Aboriginal peoples are twice as high as the national rate.

What is the term for a rise in Earth's average temperature due to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

In the past, people wanted large families.

What term did German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies use to refer to a type of social organization in which people are bound closely together by kinship and tradition?