Ch 3

Question 1

What % of the people of the world lives in the 10 most populous countries?

Answer 1

60%

Question 2

What continent contains 6 of the 10 most populous countries?

Answer 2

Asia

Question 3

How relatively populated are Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America?

Answer 3

Thinly populated

Question 4

What is the most densely populated region in the world?

Answer 4

Asia

Question 5

Which kind of countries presently has the highest population growth rates? Which kind has the lowest?

Answer 5

low-income have the highest
high-income grows the slowest

Question 6

Why is the rate of population growth important to a country? What are the consequences for a country if it grows too fast or too slow?

Answer 6

If the population is growing faster, then the economy can’t keep up (OVERWHELMS ECONOMY)
If the population is growing slower, (not enough ppl to fuel)

Question 7

What is the present world population? At what rate is it growing today?

Answer 7

8 BILLION
2050 9.6 BILLION

Question 8

What 2 countries had the largest population in 2022?

Answer 8

China
India

Question 9

What are the present rates of population growth in China and India? Why the difference? What are some of the problems this situation could bring to these countries?

Answer 9

China: 0%– Enacted 1 child policy but now ppl don’t want kids–> run out of workers
India: .7%
– growth in poor sectors of population – greater wealth disparities

Question 10

What is the present population growth rate of Japan? What are 2 reasons for this low number? What problems is Japan facing because of this low rate?

Answer 10

-0.5%
Shinto religion discourages immigration
gender revolution: women to not want to get married

Question 11

How is the rate of population growth in the World expected to change in the next 50 years?

Answer 11

decline

Question 12

What is the population of the World projected to be in the year 2050?

Answer 12

9.6 billion

Question 13

What is the trend in urbanization of the World population?

Question 14

What is the Triad? What % of the world population did they represent in 1995? In 2021? What % of the world GNP did they represent in 1995? In 2021?

Answer 14

3 aread of the world that have the highest share of global economy
North America-Mexico+ EU+ Japan
1995: 14% population, 76% GNP
2021: 12% populatiom, 49% GDP

Question 15

What was the doctrine of the Manifest Destiny and what U.S. actions did it justify?

Answer 15

territorial expansion from atlantic to pacific
justified war

Question 16

What were the 3 principles of the Monroe Doctrine? How are they commonly known?

Answer 16

NO further european colonization in the new world
no U.S intervention in the european political affairs
no european intervention in the gov of the Western hemisphere
Americans for the Americans

Question 17

What was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer 17

The US will police the area and guarantee that LA meet their internal obligations
justified creation of panama by T Roosevelt