035 Unit 3

Question 1

Population

Answer 1

The same species in a group

Question 2

Population density

Answer 2

The species in a specific geographic locale

Question 3

Distribution

Answer 3

The process of getting goods to consumers

Question 4

Exponential growth

Answer 4

A growth rate in population to the growing total number or size

Question 5

Carrying capacity

Answer 5

a species’ average population size in a particular habitat.

Question 6

Natality

Answer 6

the ratio of brith to the population of that area

Question 7

Mortality

Answer 7

The deaths in specific age group

Question 8

Immigration

Answer 8

A different species moving into a different land

Question 9

Emigration

Answer 9

A species moving out of that area

Question 10

Limiting Factors

Answer 10

anything that constrains a population’s size and slows or stops it from growing.

Question 11

Replacement Level

Answer 11

is the amount of fertility needed to keep the population the same from generation to generation

Question 12

Demographers

Answer 12

a person who studies changes in numbers of births, marriages, and deaths

Question 13

Life expectancy

Answer 13

is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live.

Question 14

Age Structure

Answer 14

the proportion of the total population in each age group.

Question 15

Fertility rate

Answer 15

is the number of children born alive to women of that age during the year as a proportion of the average annual population of women of the same age.

Question 16

Tragedy of the Commons

Question 17

Ecological Footprint

Answer 17

the impact of human activities measured in terms of the area of biologically productive land and water required to produce the goods assimilate the wastes generated.

Question 18

What are the three different types of population dispersion?

Answer 18

The three different types of population dispersion are uniform, random, and clumped.

Question 19

What is an example of a population?

Answer 19

An example of a population is the stars in the milky way galaxy.

Question 20

When does a population pass the carrying capacity?

Answer 20

The population can surpass but there are limitations to the life sustaining resources earth can provide.

Question 21

What factors decrease the population growth rate?

Answer 21

It can be predation, limitations in food, and other density dependent factors.

Question 22

What is the shape of an exponential growth curve?

Answer 22

The shape is a J-shaped curve.

Question 23

What is the shape of a logistic growth curve?

Answer 23

The logistic growth curve is an S-shaped curve.

Question 24

What are the 3 phases of logistic growth?

Answer 24

The 3 phases are rapid expansion, an initial establishment phase and a long entrenchment stage.

Question 25

What were/are the causes of rapid human population growth?

Answer 25

The cause is an imbalance between births and deaths.

Question 26

Where are the largest human populations found in the world? (What continent?)

Answer 26

Asia has the largest human populations found in the world.

Question 27

What are some strategies to reduce population growth?

Answer 27

Have less children maybe one or two children or consider adoption, read and educate yourself about population issues.

Question 28

At what fertility rate will the world population slow down?

Answer 28

In 2100 the global fertility rate is expected to be 1.9 births.

Question 29

What are some characteristics of developing countries?

Answer 29

Some characteristics are dualistic economy, mass poverty, low per capita real income, rapid population growth and excessive dependence on agriculture.

Question 30

What are some characteristics of developed countries?

Answer 30

Some characteristics are freedom, education, gross domestic product per capita income, political stability, better living standards and human development index.