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What is I = PAT used for?

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To determine the impact of a Nation on the environment

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What does the i in I= PAT stand for

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Impact

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What does the p in I= PAT stand for

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Population -number of people

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What does the a in I= PAT stand for

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Affluence=consumption of resources and waste produced

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What does the T in I= PAT stand for

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Technology=environmental disturbances caused by processing resources into consumable form or tech developed to offset negative anthropogenic effects.

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Is the world overpopulated

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No, not yet because the world still has space

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How much does a population increase every 5 days

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1 million

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Describe the growth of the human population

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Has been exponential for the last 400 years

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Who is Thomas malthus

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He is the first one who said we are going to run out of food in 1798

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Was Thomas Malthus correct

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No, this is because of the invention of fertilizer and now we are able to grow bigger products, and pesticides insects and birds aren’t eating our food, inventions like lawn mowers and irrigations help parts of the earth that are inhabitable be used for growing, and GMOs

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Demography

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Study of changes in population

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how to calculate population size change

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(Births +immigration) - (deaths + emigration)

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Why does migration not play a role on population growth counts

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People stay on Earth

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What is CBR

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Crude birth rates, number of births per 1,000 individuals

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What is CDR

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Crude death rate, number of death per 1,000 people

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How to calculate % growth rate change

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Present population -past population/past population
Then, x100

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What is the rule of 70s

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The time it would take for the population to double in size

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What is the formula for rule of 70s

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T = 70 / growth rate or r

T=.7/.r

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Population density formula

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Population divided by area

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What is TFR

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Total fertility rate,
The number of babies a woman can expect to have.

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Replacement level

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The ideal number of children, two children per family to replace the parents

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22
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When was the highest population

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The 1970 for every country

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Life expectancy

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The amount of time a person can be expected to live based on year of birth and country

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Who lives longer men or woman

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Women because they maybe taking care of themselves or they take less risks then men

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Why are men and women life expectancy leveling out and becoming equal
Men and women nowadays are doing the same jobs so women are willing to take risks, eventually the life expectancy of women and men will become the same
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What is considered a infant
Below or before 1
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What is considered a child
1 to 5
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What indicates wealth or gpp of a country
Infants mortality rates
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What country has the lowest child mortality rates and where does USA rank
#1 Singapore , #34 the us
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Why isn't the US number one with child mortality rates
This might be because of medical Care affordability, if you don't have insurance and you will not get medical attention
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Who has the highest infants mortality rates
1-African american 2- Indian American 3-caucasians
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What does a high CDR indicate
A country with a high CDR May indicate a high number of older individuals
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What disease is the largest cause of death worldwide
Heart disease
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What infectious disease is the largest cause of death
Turbulocosis or TB
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Where does a AIDs rank in leading cause of disease
Moved 8th in leaving cause of disease to the 19th but 9th in young adults
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Why is AIDS different
Affect young people and young people are the backbone of the society where they live in
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What does each bar in a population age structure graph represent
5 years
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What does the light green represent
Post reproductive
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Medium green
Reproductive
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Dark green
Pre-reproductive
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Population momentum
Continued population growth after birth control policies or voluntary birth reduction have begun to lower the crude birth rate of a country
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What was the largest age group in the US, and the effect
The baby boomers, they had a large effect on the economy because companies knew exactly what the majority of the people wanted based on their age
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What was majority of immigration through 1920 through 1960
Most legal immigrants came from Europe
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What is the majority of immigration since the 1960s
Most immigrants come from asia, and Central America.
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Why are Europeans not a problem but others is a problem
Europeans look like the other natives there but, others from other countries look different so there's a lot of racism and segregation.
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What are benefits of immigration
More religions, intelligence, and diversity
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What is the theory of demographic transition
Four phases that a country goes through, the US is in phase 4 but very few places in phase one
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What is phase 1
Pre-industrial, Where, places in rural communities of bangladesh, population growth is stable, high mortality rates and high birth rates, birth rates start to decrease at the end of the phase
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What is phase 2
Transitional. Most developing countries, population increases exponentially, in the process of becoming industrialized, death rates are drastically decreasing, the birth rates are also slowly decreasing
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What is phase 3
Industrial. Most developing countries, birth rate is decreasing and death rate begins to level out, so many people having babies so they are increasing but the number of babies are decreasing because everyone's having one to two children.
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What is phase 4
Post industrial. Birth rates are way down, and death rates have gone way up, the population level is leveling out for example China
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Family planning
Determining the number of children wanted and the spacing of the children
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What services are included in family planning
Education-teaching woman how to use birth control and how to access it Contraception Pregnancy testing and counseling Physical examination Testing for hypertension breast cancer and STDs
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What are the benefits to lower birth rates?
Increase in income More access to info about birth control Higher levels of education and affluence of women (working and educated women tend to put off having children)
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How do you empower women
Provide education, paying jobs, support their rights.
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What are the majority of woman's jobs worldwide
Almost all domestic work and childcare
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What do 60 to 80% of women do
Grow food, gathering fuel wood, hauling
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What does a lower TFR rate mean
More education
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When was China's family program made
1970
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How long did the one child policy last in China
From 1979-1990
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How did China maintain the one child policy
Forced abortions, female infanticide, and underreporting of female births.
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What percentage of the woman are poor and illiterate worldwide?
70% of the world's poor and 64% of the world's illiterate
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How much do women get paid and how much do they work
Woman work 2/3 of all hours and received 10% of the pay
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Why are men more wanted in other countries
Males remain near the parents and are expected to take care of them while females move with their husbands to take care of his parents
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What was the effect of the China family program
Moved 300 million people out of poverty and shifted the age structure towards many more males
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What is China's policy currently
Now people can have more than one and are encouraged to have two to three kids but many Chinese couples saw how much money they get without children so they are liking the lifestyle so not a lot of people are having children anymore.
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What is happening to Japan's population
It's a declining population, birth rates are low, life expectancy is high meaning not a lot of people are contributing to society, Marriage rates are low and divorce rates are high.
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What are parasite singles
Young adults who still live with their parents
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Where is the majority of growth of countries takeplace
97% of growth is expected to take place in developing countries,
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What is the per capita ecological footprint
Measures of affluence, money, goods and property
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What does a high GPD indicate
-More industry, fossil fuel use, pollutants, waste -more technology, medical advances -lower infant mortality -more sedentary (sitting) lifestyles
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What is GPD
Measure of the nation's wealth, value of all the products and services produced in a year in that country
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What does low GPD indicate
-More manual labor -More poverty / food insecurity -More infant mortality

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