Human Population and Urbanization

What agricultural shifts happened during the Industrial Revolution?

• use of chemical pesticides

• people moved to farms

• use of manure as fertilizer

• diesel powered plows

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Which of the following decreased during the Industrial Revolution?

• infant mortality

• life expectancy

• human population size

• food production

Any population at its carrying capacity has a growth rate ___________.

• that is rapid and positive

• that is negative

• that is slow and positive

• that is zero

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Which countries have very high population density?

• China

• Mexico

• India

• Australia

The harsh conditions of which biome make human settlement difficult?

• Tundra

• Desert

• Taiga

• Temperate Deciduous Forest

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

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________ help(s) demographers predict population changes.

• Total fertility rate

• Sex ratios

• Age structure diagrams

• Migration patterns

A population with most of its population in the _____ age is likely to experience rapid growth.

• pre-reproductive

• post-reproductive

• reproductive

• anti-reproductive

In the transitional stage (stage 2) of the demographic transition model, what happens?

• birth rates drop

• population size plummets

• death rates drop

• death rates rise

Which describes birth and death rates in stage 1 of the demographic transition model?

• birth and death rates high

• death rates high, birth rates low

• birth rates high, death rates low

• birth and death rates low

Which demographic transition stage is the USA in now?

• 1-preindustrial

• 2-transitional

• 3-industrial

• 4-post-industrial

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