Exam 22: A: Population,urbanization and the Environment

The crude death rate for Canada is very high by world standards.

An early focus on cities and urban life was found at the University of Chicago's sociology department.

Sustainable living depends,in part,on conserving finite resources.

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

Durkheim's concept of mechanical solidarity parallels Tönnies' concept of Gemeinschaft.

In general,the people living in low-income nations cause much more harm to the environment than people living in high-income nations do.

The crude birth rate in North America is lower than that for Asia.

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

The crude death rate is a good measure of a society's population decline.

Because our planet that is mostly covered with oceans,there is no shortage of fresh water.

In general,low-income countries grow as much from immigration as from natural increase.

Today,the three or four largest cities contain as many people as did the entire world some 12,000 years ago.

An age-sex pyramid is useful,in part,because it helps predict the demographic future of a society.

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

Expanding opportunities for women around the world is one important strategy that will help limit global population increase.

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

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

Thomas Robert Malthus expected population to increase according to an arithmetic progression.

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

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