Exam 7: Human Population Change and the Environment

A) Suburban sprawl that surrounds most cities in the United States has encroached into former forest,wetland,desert,or agricultural land destroying or fragmenting wildlife habitat.
B) Most of the large cities in the United States have blocks of brownfields-areas of abandoned,vacant factories,warehouses,and residential sites that may be contaminated from past uses.
C) Due to the well-developed transportation infrastructure,most workers in cities in the United States have to commute only one or two miles from home to work.
D) The high density of automobiles,factories and commercial enterprises in urban areas causes a buildup of airborne emissions and thus the atmosphere in many US cities often contains higher levels of pollutants than are acceptable based on heath standards.

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A) Since private automobile ownership rates are lower in developing nations,urban areas there have better air quality than urban areas in highly developed nations where automobile ownership rates are much higher.
B) Urban areas in developing nations are currently growing at a very rapid rate such that the pace of growth has outstripped the limited capacity of cities to provide basic services,whereas in the highly developed nations urban growth that occurred over that last 150 years or so occurred slowly enough to allow important city services such as sewage treatment and housing to keep pace with the influx of people from rural areas.
C) Urban areas in developing nations tend to have more females than males,whereas more males than females live in urban areas in highly developed nations.
D) Brownfield development is a unique phenomenon in the urban areas of developing nations due to the slums and squatter settlements found there,but since there are no slums in the urban areas of highly developed nations,there are also no brownfields.

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A) 1) 7
B) 2) 1
C) 2) 6
D) 3) 5

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A) Availability of family planning services
B) Cultural and religious traditions
C) Governmental policies
D) All of these choices

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A) emigration rate.
B) death rate.
C) the Earth's carrying capacity.
D) changes in fertility rate as a result condom use.

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A) Charles Darwin
B) Paul Ehrlich
C) Thomas Malthus
D) Rachel Carson

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A) births + deaths = 0
B) deaths - emigration = 0
C) births + immigration = 0
D) growth rate = 0

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A) The earth's carrying capacity.
B) Population changes and characteristics.
C) Energy resources.
D) Food production.

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A) are employed in occupations which involve industrial labor
B) are far more heterogeneous with respect to race
C) are far more heterogeneous with respect to religion
D) are employed in occupations which involve harvesting natural resources

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A) The earlier a woman marries,the more children she is likely to have
B) The more highly educated the woman,the less children she is likely to have
C) The doubling time of the Bangladesh population is 58 years at its current rate of natural increase
D) The earlier a woman marries,the less children she is likely to have

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A) 1 only
B) 2 only
C) 3 only
D) 1 and 2 are true

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A) high birth rates in urban areas
B) influx of young people from rural areas
C) high death rates in urban areas
D) the presence of more females than males in urban areas

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A) Such services are generally more available in developing countries than in developed countries.
B) Such services have resulted in about 70% of married women worldwide using contraceptives.
C) Such services provide information on reproductive physiology and contraceptive methods.
D) Such services force people to limit family size.

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A) Birthrate
B) Death rate
C) Immigration
D) All of these choices

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A) compact development
B) rural redistribution
C) urbanization
D) brownfield reclamation

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A) improved health care and modern medicines.
B) increased education of women.
C) increased contraceptive use.
D) increased economic productivity.

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A) How animal communities form and interact
B) How groups of animals of the same species respond to their environment
C) The impact of humans on the environment
D) How ecosystems fit into the landscape

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