Exam 4

Question 1

What does the US population projection for 2051 depend on?

Answer 1

Immigration

Question 2

What counteracts the aging population in the US?

Answer 2

Young immigrants

Question 3

How did US population grow from fewer than 4 million people to 331.9 million people?

Answer 3

Combination of natural increase and immigration to the US

Question 4

What is the difference between population density and population distribution?

Answer 4

Population density is unable to describe where the population actually lives, unlike population density

Question 5

What does the population concentration in the US tell about the US?

Answer 5

Reflects historic core-area development in the east and the shift to the west.

Question 6

What is another name for rate of natural increase?

Answer 6

Natural population change

Question 7

What is the rate of natural increase in the US?

Answer 7

It is low (3.01 persons per thousand population). Less than half the rate of the rest of the Americas

Question 8

Why is the rate of natural increase increasing?

Answer 8

Births and immigration

Question 9

Why did the total fertility rate decrease?

Answer 9

Improved healthcare, urbanization, more women in the workforce, greater gender equality, and economics

Question 10

How was healthcare improved?

Answer 10

birth control, access to healthcare, children survive into adulthood, better hygiene

Question 11

What are the characteristics of urbanization?

Answer 11

Families moving to cities, income (women working), decrease in fertility (women in the workforce), and greater gender equality

Question 12

How does the death rate compare between black women and white women?

Answer 12

Death rate for Black women was more than double that of white women

Question 13

What are the social determinants of health?

Answer 13

Economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood, social and community context

Question 14

What does it mean when a population is aging?

Answer 14

Longer life expectancy and declining fertility rates

Question 15

Who is being hurt by old age-dependency ratio?

Answer 15

Disproportionately hurts lower-income individuals

Question 16

What is the average age of the newly arriving immigrants?

Answer 16

31

Question 17

Where do immigrants usually settle?

Answer 17

In large metro areas where foreign born populations already live

Question 18

Where do most people live?

Answer 18

About 80% live in metropolitan areas

Question 19

Where are most cities located?

Answer 19

Located on rivers to the atlantic

Question 20

Why is industrialization and urbanization interchangable?

Answer 20

Manufacturing plants in need of labor built in or near cities

Question 21

What are suburban outer cities now?

Answer 21

They are the primary destination of migrants and economic activity and employment in the service sector

Question 22

Why are all US major cities suffering?

Answer 22

Because the city model changed and the central city lost its role as the dominant metropolitan core

Question 23

How does the interstate highway system encourage city growth?

Answer 23

Encouraged suburban growth, provides a network of free high-speed roads that pass through most cities.

Question 24

Where do we import most of our oil?

Answer 24

Canada and latin American countries

Question 25

What drives energy transition?

Answer 25

Necessity, policy, and technology

Question 26

Why is the transition challenging?

Answer 26

Because it takes fossil fuels and minerals to manufacture renewable energy resources