Introduction to Sustainability & Population

Using resources in a way that we can continue to live while also protecting the environment, is also known as:

• Ecology

• Sustainability

• Genetics

• Botany

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Unless people start using fewer natural resources, scientists predict we will need _____ Earth's by 2050.

• 1.5

• 2

• 3

• 4

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While Human Populations have increased 95% since 1970, vertebrate animal populations have:

• also increased 50%

• also increased 110%

• decreased 20%

• decreased 60%

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Which area in the world is population growing the fastest?

• North America

• Asia

• Africa

• Europe

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Which country is expected to surpass the USA in population by the year 2050?

• China

• Canada

• Mexico

• Nigeria

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Currently the worlds population is about:

• 4 billion

• 6.2 billion

• 7 billion

• 7.8 billion

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What percentage of people in the world live in cities or urban areas?

• 55%

• 60%

• 75%

• 90%

The most populated city in Kentucky has 625,000 people This city is:

• Louisville

• Lexington

• Owensboro

• Cincinnati

The greatest % increase of population in Louisville occurred in:

• 1810 - when the Falls of the Ohio forced riverboats to stop in Louisville and people stayed

• 1907 - when the KY state fair moved to Louisville

• 2013 - When UofL basketball won the national championship

• 2020 - When the pandemic occurred

Louisville has a goal to get ___% participation in recycling by 2042!

• 50% participation

• 60% participation

• 80% participation

• 90% participation