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| In the diagram on Demographic Transition Theory, in stage II, there is a gap between two declining lines. This gap represents growth in population. What solution leads to this growth? |
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| Higher fertility and lower mortality |
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| According to the coursepack, What is associated with overpopulation |
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| They Story about Stuff, gives the example of a $4.99 radio bought at Radio Shack. What is the point of this example? |
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| The price does not reflect its true cost because it does not include all the factors of extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal. |
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| According to Malthus, how quickly could an unchecked population double? |
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| According to Malthus, Population increases ________, while Subsistence increases __________ . |
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| Geometrically, arithmatically |
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| What theory says that fertility is low in the US because wealth flows from parents to children? |
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| Caldwell's Wealth Flow Theory |
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| In the last decade, which city has been the fastest growing city in the U.S.? |
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| According to Demographic Transition Theory, what type of societies tend to experience Rapid growth of population? |
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| Which one of the following statements relates to Malthusian point of view on growth of population and food? |
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| There would be less available food for a growing population. |
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| What is one of the criticisms of demographic transition theory? |
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| It assumes the use of Western methods of birth control is the only way to stabilize population. |
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| What would Malthus classify as a negative check on population? |
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| Changing the damaging effects that current structural patterns have on the environment is difficult. Such patterns include economic systems, political systems, cultural patterns of use, technology use, and family structures. What are some factors that reflect this difficulty? |
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Cultural patterns of behavior are well ingrained.
Technology changes rapidly.
The political climate is very corrupt. |
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| What are some ways we can reduce our current rate of environmental destruction in many ways. |
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Ride bicycles and use hybric cars, rather than large SUVs in urban areas.
Modify the types of technology we use so that appropriate technology is being employed.
Limit population growth. |
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| In regards to modes of production and environmental friendly land-use, what distinguishes agriculture from foraging and pastoralism? |
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| Its degradation of land nutrients due to intensification. |
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| Capitalists state that the cost of production consists of adding the capital and money spend in manufacturing + labor + raw material. Critics of capitalism say that the real cost consists of these variables plus . . .? |
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| Sources + pollution + intergeneration cost of damage to the environment + damage to health and other living organisms |
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| The study of the relationship between living things and their environment is known as? |
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| When it comes to the development and the environment, your unit notes state that social scientists tend to believe that . . . ? |
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| Development does not favor the environment |
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| What are some environmental problems with the depredation of land? |
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Deforestation.
Desertification.
Water logging
(NOT suburbanization) |
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| The production of what food source is relatively more dangerous to the environment? |
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| Carrying capacity refers to . . .? |
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| The number of living organisms a given environment can support. |
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| What are some assumptions abotu over-population given by the author. |
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Efforts to control population growth was hampered by religious beliefs.
Population growth in the periphery contributes to economic stagnation and decline.
Stability before the 18th century was a result of the high mortality rate to balance the high fertility rate. |
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| What best describes an anthropologist's point of view on population growth? |
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| Anthropologists tend to disagree with both Malthusian theory and Demographic transition theory on population. |
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| Why does a capitalist economy not benefit from small populations? |
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| There is not enough demand for goods and services. |
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| What do studies of fertility among the hunting and gathering populations, the French Canadian settlers, and the Irish indicate? |
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| Societies were able to adjust birth rates to adapt to the social and economic environment in which they existed. |
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| Generally speaking, what is the impact of rapid population growth on the carrying capacity of the planet Earth? |
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| Generally speaking, it is negative. |
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| What are our consumption needs formed largely to fill? |
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| The needs of economic expansion |
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| In the culture of capitalism, an overproduction of what occurs? |
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| One of the greatest innovations in meat packing was . . . |
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| Were traditional forms of raising and consuming beef harmful to the environment? |
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| No, it was not as harmful as modern beef industry. |
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| According to the text, the expansion of the culture of capitalism around the globe will have what impact on the environment? |
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| It will accelerate an environmental collapse |
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| According to the authors, given the nature of the culture of capitalism, is it possible to halt the destruction of the environment? |
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