Exam 15: Urbanization, Population, and the Environment

Demographers study population patterns. If a demographer were going to study the population changes in a country such as China, which of the following would he or she examine?

Places such as New York and Tokyo are called ________ because they are the organizing centers of the new global economy.

Reducing population growth around the world faces which of the following challenges?

Demographic transition and Malthusianism are two theories of population change. In a short paragraph, describe which you think best explains the issues of population growth today and why.

Malthusianism is the belief that population growth tends to outstrip expansion of food production and that population growth can only be controlled by:

In 2016, scientists warned that the world's giraffe population dropped 40 percent over the past thirty years and is threatened with extinction. Based on what you read in the textbook, how would contemporary sociologists most likely understand this phenomenon?

In 2014, Afghanistan had thirty-four live births per one thousand people. This number is known as:

Why is rural America on the decline? In a short paragraph, explain at least one problem facing rural America today.

David Biello, curator of science for TED Talks, recently told the New York Times that humans' impact on the earth is "deep and pervasive, and probably permanent." Based on what you read in the textbook, which concept does Biello's statement best exemplify?

Britain was the first country to undergo industrialization, which generated ________, the movement of population from the countryside into towns and cities.

In Mexico City, nearly 95 percent of the land has buildings on it. Based on what you read about urbanism, this is likely one of the characteristics that makes Mexico City:

Jonah grew up in a neighborhood with poor schools, few businesses, and many run-down and abandoned buildings. However, in the past few years, the city has renovated many buildings, and tax breaks are encouraging new businesses to move into the city. This process is called:

Urban growth in less-developed countries is high because of higher birth rates as well as:

In your opinion, which strand of urban studies developed by the Chicago School-urban ecology or urbanism-is more convincing to you, and why? Explain your answer in three to five sentences.

Which of the following jobs most closely illustrates the informal economy?

Although more racial and ethnic minorities are moving to the suburbs, the suburbs remain largely white. Only ________ of the suburban population was nonwhite in 2010.

Both urban and suburban neighborhoods are highly:

The increase in life expectancy has been most significantly influenced by:

The Chicago School focused on cities as ________; however, most contemporary theory and research in urban sociology focus on cities as ________.

Population growth rates are: