Exam 22: Population, Urbanization, and Environment

Why is empowering women important to controlling global population?

Quick Quiz: -To calculate a crude birth rate, divide the number of live births in a year into the total.

Georg Simmel claimed that urbanites are so interested in each other's lives that there is little privacy in cities.

A metropolis is a large city that socially and economically dominates an urban area.

Global warming could cause the oceans to fall by two to three feet during this century.

The limits to growth thesis states that humans can expect to solve whatever environmental problems come along.

Canada is a high-income country; therefore, its population growth is likely to result from which of the following?

The average life expectancy for Canadian females born today is about sixty years.

Sustainable living depends on three strategies. What are these strategies? Explain.

Which of the following four statements about migration is NOT true?

More than sixty nations, including Canada, have a birth rate below the zero population growth point.

97% of current population growth is in poor countries. What does this mean for the future of poor nations? Of rich nations?

People's movement out of a territory is called immigration.

As a rich nation that values consumption and convenience, we can be described as

Assume a country has a population of 400 million people and in a given year has 4 million births. What is this country's current crude birth rate?

With the Industrial Revolution, how did the physical design of cities change?

Compared to world standards, how would you describe the Canadian crude birth rate, crude death rate, and infant mortality rate?

The infant mortality rate for Aboriginal people in Canada is higher than the Canadian national average.

Which of the following accounts for most water use in the world today?

Less than 1 percent of the earth's water is suitable for