Human Population

If a country has a death rate of 30 and a birth rate of 45 the natural rate of increase would show the population is ______.

• Increasing

• Decreasing

• Staying the same

• Fluctuating too much

The maximum population size of a species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water and other necessities available in the environment.

• sparse population

• environmental

• carrying capacity

• dense population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

One reason for a rapid population growth is...

• an increase in pull factors.

• declining death rates. 

• a sparse population density. 

• internal migration.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What is a population pyramid?

• A type of graph showing the number of males and females in different age groups.

• A type of graph showing the number of males in different age groups.

• A type of graph showing the number of females  in different age groups.

• A type of graph showing the number of males and females in only one age group.

What is one major cause of population growth?

• better transportation

• a falling death rate

• food shortages

• poor health care

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Rapid population growth can harm the environment because of the _____.

• surplus of jobs

• use of wind, solar and geothermal energy

• increase in poverty

• increased demand for resources

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

For a population’s growth rate to be zero

• more deaths than births must occur

• more births than deaths must occur

• no births can occur

• the average number of births and deaths must be the same

Identify Stable / Zero Population growth

• A

• B

• C

• None

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

small population size, low growth rate (stage 1)

• preindustrial

• postindustrial

• transitional

• industrial

increasing population size, very high growth rate (stage 2)

• preindustrial

• postindustrial

• transitional

• industrial

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4