AP Environmental Science › The Human Population
A certain country has an initial population of 52,800 people. In 2015, there were 870 births, 517 deaths, 1,700 immigrants, and 1,300 emigrants. What is the population growth rate for 2015?
The population growth for a country is 4% every 5 years, what is the approximate doubling time of this population?
In Stage One of a demographic transition, a population:
Exponential population growth is a major issue that threatens the stability of life on Earth. Which of the following is not a factor used to measure human population growth for a given country?
How has the CITES Treaty (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) been helpful in protecting endangered animals and plants?
Which of the following is not associated with a Deep Ecology Worldview?
The United States has a birth rate of births per one thousand people, a death rate of
deaths per one thousand people and an immigration rate of
migrants per one thousand people. With emigration from the U.S. near insignificant, calculate the population growth rate of the United States.
Which of the following is FALSE regarding urbanization?
A town of 20,000 people experienced a birth rate of 25 per 1,000 per year and a death rate of 7 per 1,000. There were 600 immigrants into the town and 200 people emigrated from the town. Using these values, calculate the population size for the following year.
Who first theorized that the human population would eventually exceed the capacity of the Earth's resources to sustain it?