chapter 20.3

Question 1

Sustainability

Answer 1

the concepts of living in a way that meets our needs without compromising the health of future generations or the health of the planet

Question 2

Age Pyramids

Answer 2

tools that demographers use to help them assess a population’s potential for growth

Question 3

Earth’s carrying capacity

Answer 3

• Advances in construction, medicine, sanitation have increased earth’s carrying capacity for the human population
• many factors make it difficult to predict the carrying capacity for the world and whether or not this carrying capacity as been reached
• must remember that no population (including humans) can act in isolation. We are all connected and share the same biosphere