Question 1

What is the Club of Rome?

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Question 2

According to the economist Amartya Sen, modern food crises are:

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A)  Make-believe as we have not had a food crisis in over 500 years. 
B)  Due to people not wanting to work. 
C)  Typically the result of natural disasters. 
D)  Less related to the absence of food as to the inability to buy it.

Question 3

Discuss and explain the role of family planning in stabilizing population growth. Use facts and cases from the chapter in your explanation

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Question 4

The text discusses Julian Simon's perspective of people as the planet's 'ultimate resource.' Summarize Simon's perspective. Use the term "cornucopian" in your explanation.

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Question 5

STIRPAT-the model that examines the relationship between human activities and the environment-is short for:

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A)  STochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology. 
B)  SusTainable Impacts by Region or Place And Time. 
C)  Slow Technological Impacts as a measure of Regression models, Population, Action, and Time. 
D)  Statistical Ingression of Repressed Progress, Affluence, and Temporality.

Question 6

Is it fair to continue framing 'the population problem' as a low-income country problem when the average U.S. citizen's ecological footprint is thirty-times greater than that of the average Indian and one hundred times greater than that of the average person in the world's poorest countries?

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Question 7

What is the earth's carrying capacity (how many people can it hold?)

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Question 8

Which Fast Fact would you use to talk to and educate others about our current population crisis? Why and what would you say?

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Question 9

Compounds that evaporate from housekeeping, maintenance, and building products made with organic chemicals.

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A)  Greenhouse gases 
B)  Municipal substances 
C)  Organic matter 
D)  Volatile organic compounds

Question 10

Does a person have a fundamental human right to have as many children as he or she chooses?

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Question 11

Megacities are cities with over 1 billion people.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Cities in low-income countries are currently half as densely populated as cities in affluent countries.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The Club of Rome was a global "Think Tank" founded in 1968.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

As mentioned in Society and the Environment, while fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa tend to be high the countries in this region also have very high child mortality rates.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Define Developed vs. least developed countries.

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Question 16

Define China's One child policy.

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Question 17

The demographic transition model illustrates:

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A)  The move from a state of high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates. 
B)  The move from a state of low birth and death rates to high birth and death rates. 
C)  The move from a sustainable to unsustainable society. 
D)  The move from an energy-intensive to an energy un-intensive society.

Question 18

Exponential growth refers to growth that:

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A)  Starts at a low rate but then the rate rises dramatically. 
B)  Occurs at a constant rate. 
C)  Starts at a high rate but then the rate drops dramatically. 
D)  Repeatedly fluctuates between a high and low rate.

Question 19

Having large families in low-income nations is perfectly rational for many living in those environments. What are some of the sociological forces underlying high fertility rates in developing countries?

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Question 20

The fact that population control policies in countries like China have taken decades before their full effects can be seen is an example of:

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A)  Demographic inertia. 
B)  Demographic transition. 
C)  Demographic depletion. 
D)  Demographic lock in.

Exam 6: Population: a Problem of Quantity or Quality

What is the Club of Rome?

According to the economist Amartya Sen, modern food crises are:

Discuss and explain the role of family planning in stabilizing population growth. Use facts and cases from the chapter in your explanation

The text discusses Julian Simon's perspective of people as the planet's 'ultimate resource.' Summarize Simon's perspective. Use the term "cornucopian" in your explanation.

STIRPAT-the model that examines the relationship between human activities and the environment-is short for:

Is it fair to continue framing 'the population problem' as a low-income country problem when the average U.S. citizen's ecological footprint is thirty-times greater than that of the average Indian and one hundred times greater than that of the average person in the world's poorest countries?

What is the earth's carrying capacity (how many people can it hold?)

Which Fast Fact would you use to talk to and educate others about our current population crisis? Why and what would you say?

Compounds that evaporate from housekeeping, maintenance, and building products made with organic chemicals.

Does a person have a fundamental human right to have as many children as he or she chooses?

Megacities are cities with over 1 billion people.

Cities in low-income countries are currently half as densely populated as cities in affluent countries.

The Club of Rome was a global "Think Tank" founded in 1968.

As mentioned in Society and the Environment, while fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa tend to be high the countries in this region also have very high child mortality rates.

Define Developed vs. least developed countries.

Define China's One child policy.

The demographic transition model illustrates:

Exponential growth refers to growth that:

Having large families in low-income nations is perfectly rational for many living in those environments. What are some of the sociological forces underlying high fertility rates in developing countries?

The fact that population control policies in countries like China have taken decades before their full effects can be seen is an example of: