Env Sci, Ch 9, Human Populations, Post Assessment

What had to occur before the Industrial Revolution could take place?

• The Economic Revolution
• The Glorious Revolution
• The Agricultural Revolution
• The French Revolution

VOCAB: Number of babies out of 1000 that die during their first year of life

• infant mortality
• child mortality
• life expectancy
• growth rate

VOCAB: The average number of years an individual is expected to live.

• life expectancy
• infant mortality
• death rate
• growth rate

VOCAB: The study of human population statistics

• demography
• biology
• microbiology
• ecology

 What does the term carrying capacity describe?

• The maximum number of birth rates for a population.
• The ability of a population to accept new immigrants.
• The ratio of birth rates to death rates in a population.
• The population size that the environment can sustain.

Any abiotic or biotic factor in an ecosystem that causes a population’s size to slow or decrease is a ____________ factor.

• growth
• limiting
• carrying
• density dependent

The movement by people from one place to another with the intention of settling temporarily or permanently in a new location. 

• pull factor
• push factor
• distribution
• migration

thinly scattered or distributed

• carrying capacity
• immigration
• dense population
• sparse population

The average number of people living in a square kilometer is called...

• urbanization. 
• internal migration. 
• population density. 
• pull factors. 

Moving from place to place in the same country 

• Urbanization 
• Internal Migration 
• Pull Factor 
• Declining death rates