What are the 3 major factors that account for the rapid rise of the human population?
6-1 How Do Environmental Scientists Think About Human Population Growth?
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Demographers have recognized 3 important growth trends. List/explain each.
6-2 What Factors Influence the Size of the Human Population?
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What 3 factors determine whether human populations grow or decline?
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Write the equation for population change.
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What is the difference between replacement-level fertility rate and total fertility rate (TFR)?
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In the past few decades, has the TFR increased or decreased? What would the TFR need to be in order for the world’s population to eventually level off?
The graph below shows the total fertility rate for the U.S. between 1917 and 2012 (p. 127).
The U.S. fertility rate has declined and remained at or below replacement levels since 1972.
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Why is the population of the U.S. still increasing?
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Review: How is a population’s environmental impact calculated? (p. 128)
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Why does the U.S. have both the world’s largest total and per capita ecological footprint?
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List 5 factors that affect birth rates (your book discusses more than this).
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Why are more people in some countries living longer and fewer infants dying?
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Why is infant mortality a good indicator of overall health in a population?
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What is the difference between undernutrition and malnutrition?
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How many infants die EACH DAY due to preventable causes?
6-3 How Does a Population’s Age Structure Affect Its Growth or Decline?
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List/define the 3 three age categories:
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Label these population pyramids as growing, shrinking, or stable.
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What is meant by the graying of America?
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Populations made up of mostly older people can decline rapidly. List 3 problems associated with rapid population decline.
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What countries face rapidly declining populations?
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What age group has the AIDS pandemic affected most? What problems can this cause for countries whose population has been impacted by the pandemic?
6-4 How Can We Slow Human Population Growth?
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What are the 3 most effective ways to slow or stop population growth?
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Study the demographic diagram on p. 135. Fill out the summary table of the differences between the stages of the population transition model.
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Label the stages of the demographic transition.
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Women tend to have fewer children if…. (list a few reasons)
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What is family planning? How has it impacted TFR in less-developed countries?
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Read the case studies about India and China on pages 136-138.
Why has India’s family planning program (started in 1952) only had modest success?
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China implemented a very strict family planning and birth control program in the 1979. How did it implement this program? What has been the effect of this program on China’s population?