Human Population Growth Vocab

Question 1

Comes from the decay of organisms compacted over millions of years and buried in sediments (non renewable resources)

Answer 1

Fossil Fuels

Question 2

Movement of people and goods from one place to another

Answer 2

Transportation

Question 3

A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area

Answer 3

Population

Question 4

All the living an nonliving things that surround an organism

Answer 4

Environment

Question 5

Consists of living and non-living things in their environment, that interact with each other and their environment

Answer 5

Ecosystem

Question 6

That part of Earth in which life can exist

Answer 6

Biosphere

Question 7

Relating to the interaction and economic factors of education, income, and occupation

Answer 7

Socio-economic patterns

Question 8

Has a mature and sophisticated economy

Answer 8

Developed industrialized country-

Question 9

What happens on Earth every 50 years?

Answer 9

The amount of human beings living on earth doubles at least once

Question 10

What are 2 reasons that populations grow?

Answer 10

Two reasons populations grow are improvements in medical care that allow people to live longer lives, or improved care that allows more babies to survive infancy.

Question 11

What does population growth mean?

Answer 11

Population growth means the number of births exceeding the number of deaths.

Question 12

What was the world’s population in 2016?

Answer 12

In 2016, the world’s population was 7.5 billion people.

Question 13

What services will we have to provide to future generations?

Answer 13

The services that we will have to provide to future generations are health care, sanitation, and housing.

Question 14

What effects will increased consumption of natural resources have on the environment?

Answer 14

This results in the decline of and the extinction of some species, the increase of population of some species that increase in the population of human, exploiting natural resources and our needs for space.

Question 15

How can scientists detect the negative impacts of increased human activity?

Answer 15

Scientists detect the negative impacts of increased human activity by carefully monitoring the environment and our activities can be managed to reduce these impacts.

Question 16

How can we reduce the negative impacts of human population growth?

Answer 16

We can reduce the negative impacts of human population growth by managing our environment and activities.

Question 17

What information does studying socioeconomic patterns tell scientists?

Answer 17

This means that studying population growth can tell us about the economic and social makeup of the places where the population is growing or not.

Question 18

Give examples

Answer 18

An example is people living in developed, industrialized countries, such as the United States or countries in Europe, have low rates of population growth.

Question 19

What happens to countries as they begin to develop?

Answer 19

As these countries develop, their per capita income, health, and consumption increases.

Question 20

In developing countries where does the population tend to grow?

Answer 20

In developing countries, populations move from rural areas, such as farms, toward urban areas, such as cities.

Question 21

Why do people move to this area?

Answer 21

This is because cities might offer jobs or proximity to relatives and friends, while droughts may make farming difficult.

Question 22

Why does living in an urban area have a greater impact on the surrounding ecosystem?

Answer 22

Cities typically use more resources, having a worse impact on the surrounding ecosystem.

Question 23

6 . Most people who live in poverty work very hard to obtain their basic needs. What do you think some of these basic needs are?

Answer 23

Adequate food, clean water, shelter, and education.

Question 24

What is one pressing issue connected to world population growth?

Answer 24

One pressing issue is the consumption of natural resources used for transport.

Question 25

What do most methods of transportation rely upon?

Answer 25

These methods, mostly, rely upon fossil fuels (such as coal and oil).

Question 26

What kind of impact does this have on our environment?

Answer 26

negative impact

Question 27

Because these resources are limited, what will happen over time?

Answer 27

These resources are also in limited supply. They will grow more and more scarce over time and will get more expensive.

Question 28

Why is land a precious commodity in urban areas?

Answer 28

Large tracts of open space, like those required to build a new airport, are often in short supply near densely populated urban centers.

Question 29

What kind of social problems can growing populations cause?

Answer 29

Growing populations can create social problems related to transportation.

Question 30

How can we reduce the impact that growing populations have on our transportation system?

Answer 30

Careful planning can reduce these impacts. Such as carpooling and biking.

Question 31

Give examples of new technologies and how they can help us in the future.

Answer 31

Some examples are high-speed trains can replace some air travel, bringing down both the cost per passenger and the impact of long-distance travel. Alternate fuel technologies like electric trains and cars, hybrid cars, fuel cell engines, and others may lead the way to low-impact travel in the future.

Question 32

What happens when the population changes in an area?

Answer 32

As the population in an area changes its socioeconomic conditions are also likely to change.

Question 33

What happens to the countries whose death rate equals its birth rate?

Answer 33

The countries who’s death rate equals its birth rate there will be little to no population growth.

Question 34

Name two countries that follow this pattern.

Answer 34

Two countries that follow this pattern are Japan and the United States.

Question 35

Why is the birth rate exceeding the death rate in the United States?

Answer 35

The birth rate is exceeding the death rate in the United States because our population is still growing, in part because people are living longer.

Question 36

Population growth is greater in which type of countries?

Answer 36

Developing countries account for the most of the world’s population growth.

Question 37

Name two countries that account for the largest increase in the world’s population.

Answer 37

Two continents that account for the largest increase in the world’s population are Africa and Asia.

Question 38

Name two reasons why people in developing countries live in poverty

Answer 38

They may have political corruption and weak educational systems.

Question 39

Geographers call the migration of people to an urban area as push and pull factors.
What does this mean?

Answer 39

Push factors are those that cause a person to leave an area and pull factors are those that cause a person to move to an area.

Question 40

Give an example of a push and pull factor.

Answer 40

A push factor might be that life in rural areas might be very tough and with limited resources. A pull factor might be that economic opportunities exist elsewhere.