Population and the Environment

A. an economic crisis in the capitalist system would force factory owners into the ranks of the unemployed
B. an excess of the working-class population depends on the availability of employment opportunities not on fixed supply of food.
C. the problems associated with population growth are a function of the scarcity of wealth
D. self-control would restrain population growth.

A. A population pyramid portrays the sex and age composition of a population
B. A population pyramid must be based on absolute numbers.
C. A population pyramid is of interest solely to academics.
D. A population pyramid requires complex statistical calculation to understand the interrelationship between age and sex in a given population.

A. emigration rate
B. growth rate
C. immigration rate
D. net migration rate

A. is the annual number of live births per 1000-woman age 15-44?
B. Is the potential number of children that could be born if every woman of childbearing age bore all the children she possibly could?
C. is the number of live births per 1000 members of a population in a given year
D. enables researchers to see important difference among races. ethnic groups, classes, age groups, and other categories with in the population

A. urban ecologists
B. new urban sociologist
C. functionalists
D. human ecologists

A. the functionalist perspective
B. the conflict perspective
C. the linear-development model
D. Urban ecology

A. preindustrial city
B. industrial city
C. postindustrial city
D. edge cities

A. reliance on animal power as a source of energy
B. the high levels of surplus produced by the agricultural sector
C. the ease of migration to the city
D. all of the above

A. Pre-transition stage
B. transition stage
C. post transition stage
D. initiation stage

A. high birthrates and death rates
B. high birthrates and low death rates
C. low birthrates and high death rates
D. low birthrates and low death rates