Chapter 2 Quiz Questions

Question 1

Development initially has a large _____ impact on the environment

Answer 1

Negative

Question 2

Which Theorist state the following “The poor laws of England tend to depress the general condition of the poor…they may be said, therefore, to create the poor which they maintain”

Answer 2

Thomas Malthus

Question 3

Which of the following is not a given critique of the rationale behind the I=PAT equation?

Answer 3

Does not show the relationship between affluence and technology as it relates to the population

Question 4

The fertility rate is the average number of children born to a woman during her reproductive years

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Most developed nations would fit into the second state of the demographic transition model

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Compared to long term growth patterns, population growth rates since the 1960’s have been doing what?

Answer 6

Decreasing

Question 7

The Forest Transition Theory is explained by which model?

Answer 7

Environmental Kuznets Curve

Question 8

Developing countries (overall), have a much higher fertility rate than industrialized countries

Answer 8

True

Question 9

The demographic transition model shows population growth as a function of resource scarcity

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Stage I in the demographic transition model describes a situation in which:

Answer 10

birth rates are high and death rates are high

Question 11

Neo-Malthusians view _______ as the main limit of population growth

Answer 11

Scarce resources

Question 12

The IPAT equation explains environmental impact as a function of:

Answer 12

population, affluence and technology

Question 13

High levels of women’s education and literacy are associated with lower total fertility rates

Answer 13

True

Question 14

The area of the earth’s surface that would be required to support a population based on the number of resources needed to sustain a particular lifestyle is known as _______

Answer 14

an ecological footprint

Question 15

The term that describes how many goods per capita per person are consumed in an area or country of total production is what?

Answer 15

Affluence

Question 16

An application of the I+PAT formula would be the ecological footprint

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Which of the following is a criticism of population-centered thinking?

Answer 17

It directs policy action, blame, and social control onto women and their bodies

Question 18

We are expected to reach a population of 8 billion in fewer years than it took for Earths population to move from 6 billion to 7 billion

Answer 18

True

Question 19

All of the following are critiques of the Green Revolution and the Cornucopian Theory, except what?

Answer 19

Increased food supplies will be distributed more evenly across the world than before

Question 20

___________ argued that technology leads to greater environmental impact than population

Answer 20

Barry Commoner

Question 21

All of the following lead to greater crop yields under the Cornucopian Theory, except what?

Answer 21

Decreased fertility rate

Question 22

What would Malthus suggest as a way to slow population growth?

Answer 22

People should exercise moral restraint

Question 23

Malthus believed that a natural correction to overpopulation includes all of the following except what?

Answer 23

Innovation

Question 24

World population did not reach 1 billion people until approximately what year?

Answer 24

1800

Question 25

Carrying capacity is the maximum number of people that a system can sustain over a period of time, assuming a particular lifestyle.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Which group of people would agree with the statement that “the more people, the more ideas we receive and the more solutions that will be generated”?

Answer 26

Cornucopianists

Question 27

All of the following are reason why the fertility rate is low in Kerala, India, except:

Answer 27

Result of India’s sterilization program in the 1950’s

Question 28

The idea that increased food demand leads to technological innovation that increases food production on the same amount of available land is known as what?

Answer 28

Induced intensification

Question 29

Which theorists developed the I = PAT equation?

Answer 29

Ehrlich and Holdren

Question 30

After a period of economic transition and regulations, development is predicted to lead to a __________ in environmental impacts.

Answer 30

Decrease