Chapter 7 Vocabulary- Human overpopulation

A double sided bar graph of age structure in a population

• age structure

• I=PAT

• demographic transitions

• survivorship

A model that describes how changes in a population will occur

• age structure

• exponential growth

• demographic transistions

• immigration

Allows couples to determine the number and spacing of their children

• age structure

• demography

• infrastructure

• family planning

Average number of children a woman gives birth to in her lifetime.

• population momentum

• social justice

• total fertility rate

• total growth rate

Children born during times of high growth rates will mature and have children decades later, and so the population size stabilizes many years after growth rate.

• total fertility rate

• population momentum

• survivorship

• social justice

Ensuring a fair share of social benefits for everyone.

• social justice

• technological optimists

• ethical justice

• rule of 70

 Environmental  impacts equal the product of our population size times affluence and the technology used to produce the goods and consume.

• immigration

• emigration

• I=PAT

• crude birth rate

Factors that encourage people to have babies.

• I=PAT

• Rule 70

• Pronatalist pressure

• total growth rate

Highest birth rates

• Least developed countries

• developing countries

• developed countries

• all of the above

 Land that can be used to grow crops

• infrastructure

• arable land

• suburban sprawl

• none of the above