9.2 Changing Population Trends

Match the problem caused by rapid population growth immediately below with the resource

it relates to in the options provided below. You may use a resource more than once.

housing

• vegetation

• water

• land

Match the problem caused by rapid population growth immediately below with the resource

it relates to in the options provided below. You may use a resource more than once.

sewage disposal

• vegetation

• water

• land

Match the problem caused by rapid population growth immediately below with the resource

it relates to in the options provided below. You may use a resource more than once.

fuel supply

• vegetation

• water

• land

Match the problem caused by rapid population growth immediately below with the resource

it relates to in the options provided below. You may use a resource more than once.

food production

• vegetation

• water

• land

Match the problem caused by rapid population growth immediately below with the resource

it relates to in the options provided below. You may use a resource more than once.

dysentery

• vegetation

• water

• land

The 1991 cholera outbreak in Lima, Peru was caused by

• lack of clean water.

• widespread malnutrition.

• inadequate medical care.

• rats and other rodents.

Because birth rates have begun to fall Earth’s population will

• soon stabilize at the level it is today—more than 7 billion.

• begin to decrease until it reaches 5 billion.

• increase for a short time and then decrease to current levels.

• stabilize somewhere around 9 billion by 2050.

Currently, the fastest-growing populations are in

• Europe.

• Asia.

• North America.

• stabilize somewhere around 9 billion by 2050.

Which of the following makes it difficult to reduce population growth?

• High literacy rates result in women wanting to have more children.

• Population sizes will not decline until some people start having to do

  without food and other necessities of life.

• Many people live in cities, where large families are an advantage.

• Many people have low literacy and limited access to healthcare

Which of the following is not a strategy that could slow population

growth?

• public advertising

• economic incentives

• legal punishments

• limiting education for women