Ch. 8 & 9
b. What is the estimated carrying capacity for humans?
a. What is the study of demography?
c. Describe the different revolutions that have promoted population growth. How did they result in growth?
d. What are the environmental and social consequences of rapid population growth in rural, developing nations? Developed?
e. Describe the environmental issues that most impact impoverished groups throughout the world. How do they differ in urbanized and rural settings?
f. What is the relationship between poverty (low per capita income of a nation) and fertility rates?
g. Define total fertility rate (TFR) and how it applies to replacement-level fertility. Which countries have the highest TFR?
h. What is the IMPACT or IPAT formula and what does it tell us? How does affluence affect our environment? What about impoverishment? Both have impacts but they are usually different.
i. What are population profiles and what do they tell us?
j. Discuss what population momentum tells us about the future population of a nation.
k. Be able to identify population age groups between developed and developing countries.
l. What are the different phases of the demographic transition? What phase are we in? What phase are most developing countries in?
m. What are the components of the demographic transition? How do countries move through the demographic transition?
field of collecting, compiling, and presenting information about human populations
2-4 billion
neolithic revolution, industrial revolution, medical revolution, green revolution, environmental revoution
Population growth – related to poverty, environmental degradation, and other measures of development
land ownership by wealthy -> needs reform
intensifying cultivation -> small farms cannot support families
opening up new lands -> destroys ecosystems
higher fertility rates in lower income
average # of children a woman has over her lifetime
replacement- level fertility - fertility rate replacing population of parents
I=PAT
bar graph depicting age structure of males and females in a population
birth and death rates
epidemiologic transition- discovery of modern medicine, death rates have decreased dramatically
fertility transition- reproduction decrease in low income countries
current age structure effect on future populations
positive momentum = Burkina Faso or other low income nations
Negative momentum = throughout Europe and Japan
in notebook
low income countries in phase II and III and high income countries in phase IV