Exam 22: Population, Urbanization, and Environment

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

At the present rate of loss, almost all of the rain forests will be gone by the end of this century.

In 2007, the world is home to about how many people?

As a rich nation that values consumption and convenience, the U.S. can be described as:

Which of the following concepts refers to the number of live births in a given year for every thousand people in a population?

In what year was half the U.S. population living in urban places for the first time?

In poor nations of the world today, what is the average number of children born to a woman?

If a nation has a sex ratio of 106, as India does, it is very likely that parents there:

Which of the following nations would you expect to be most concerned about declining population?

Which of the following statements expresses the "logic of growth"?

Which of the following is evidence of the shortage of fresh water now found around the world?

Demography is defined as the study of:

What do we learn from the urban political economy approach? How does this approach differ from the "urbanism as a way of life" theory developed by Louis Wirth and others? (Consider whether cities are self-defining on the basis of population size, density, and diversity or whether cities reflect larger economic forces such as capitalism.)

When did the world's population reach 1 billion?

The concept "environmental deficit" refers to:

State the basic idea of the "limits to growth" thesis.

Examine the two age-sex pyramids on

Thomas Robert Malthus claimed that:

In terms of migration within the United States, the region of the country most often left behind is:

The average life expectancy for U.S. children born today is about sixty years.