The Human Population exam Flashcards

The increase in the number of individuals in the human species, which has accelerated due to advancements in agriculture, medicine, and technology.

Advancements in agriculture, medicine, healthcare, living conditions, and technology.

Factors that affect population growth in relation to the population density, such as disease.

The rate of human population growth began to decline due to factors like disease and voluntary population control.

Methods such as contraception and policies that encourage smaller family sizes to control population growth.

The distribution of individuals of different ages within a population, often displayed as an age structure pyramid.

It impacts birth and death rates, life expectancy, and the overall growth rate of a population.

Countries with high birth and death rates, leading to high mortality rates and low life expectancy.

More balanced age structure pyramids with relatively low birth and death rates, leading to high life expectancy.

The shift from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country industrializes.

The maximum number of individuals that an environment can sustainably support.

A measure of the amount of land and water needed to support human activities and absorb wastes.

A unit of area representing a hectare with world average biological activity, used to measure ecological footprints.

By dividing the total globally productive hectares by the current human population size.

2.7 global hectares per person, which is greater than the maximum sustainable footprint of 1.5 global hectares per person.

Actions that reduce ecological footprints and ensure resources are used in a way that can be maintained over the long term.

Using bicycles for transportation, renewable energy sources, less deforestation, and using crops as primary food sources.

Using individual cars, coal-burning factories, deforestation, using animals as primary food sources, and oil spills from cargo ships.

Awareness helps us reduce our ecological footprint and promote sustainable practices to support future populations.

It leads to high mortality rates, low survivorship, and low life expectancy.

It leads to a shift from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates, increasing life expectancy.

It provides insights into the country's development, birth and death rates, and population growth trends.

The growth rate is projected to continue decreasing.

It indicates a developing nation with high birth rates and high death rates.

It indicates a developed nation with low birth rates and low death rates.

It indicates that humans are using resources faster than nature can regenerate them, leading to potential environmental collapse.

They standardize measurements, allowing comparisons of ecological footprints across different regions and countries.