Deck 22: A: Population,urbanization and the Environment

Question 1

To calculate a crude birth rate,divide the number of live births in a year into the total population and multiply the result by 1,000.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

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

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Most people migrate due to a combination of "push" and "pull" factors.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

Demography is the study of the size and composition of a society's population.

Question 7

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

Question 8

Demographic transition theory states that humanity must act now to reduce fertility if we are to save the planet.

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

In many low-income nations,parents value sons more than daughters,which explains why the age-sex ratio in these nations may be higher than 100.

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

An annual growth rate of about 2 percent will cause a society's population to double in about thirty-five years.

Question 15

The forced transport of 10 million slaves from Africa to the western hemisphere is an example of involuntary migration.

Question 16

It would be fair to say that Malthus was a pessimist about the future of the world.

Question 17

The planet's population first reached 1 billion about the year 1500.

Question 18

Fecundity is a simple and useful way to measure population increase.

Question 19

Sex ratios are usually greater than 100 because men typically outlive women.

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

Environmental racism is a pattern by which environmental hazards are greatest for the poor,especially poor minorities.

Question 23

Urban political economy is influenced by the thinking of Karl Marx.

Question 24

Mumbai,India is a megacity.

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

More than half of the world's cities with populations over 5 million are in less developed countries.

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

The high level of consumption in rich countries is not an issue in terms of the environment.

Question 34

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

Question 35

Protecting the rain forests is vital to maintaining the Earth's biodiversity.

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

"Zero population growth" refers to cases in which no more people are born.

Question 40

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