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9th Grade
10/26/2011

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Three reasons why food production has increased in the last half of the twentieth century are
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better growing techniques, higher yielding seeds, and cultivating more land

 

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Marxist Friedrich Engles dismissed Malthus’ arithmetic and argued that the world
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possess sufficient resources to eliminate global hunger and poverty, if only the recourses were shared equally.
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The two age ranges of people who are classified as dependants are
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X_0 -14_  and _ X_65 - above
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Countries in stage 3 and 4 of the DTM have higher crude death rates than countries in stage 2 because
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they have a larger percentage of older people.
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The United States has not completely moved to stage 4 of the DTM because of
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its ethnic diversity
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The two main reasons why several European nations have negative natural increase rates are:
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A. _ Xinadequate pollution controls__
B. _ Xstrong family planning programs and pessimism about having children in an uncertain world
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Today most __ nations remain in stage 2
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African
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A country reaches stage 4 of the DTM when
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the crude birth rate declines to the point where it equals the crude death rate and the natural increase rate approaches 0
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Countries that entered stage 2 of the DTM during the second half of the twentieth century did so, not because of the Industrialization Revolution, but due to the diffusion of the
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medical revolution
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A country moves from stage 2 to stage 3 of the DTM when
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the crude birth rate begins to drop sharply
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1.         In stage 2 of the DTM the crude _ __  rate suddenly falls, while the crude _ __  rate remain about the same as in state 1.

 

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death, birth
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Countries entered stage 2 of the DTM as a result of the
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Industrial Revoultion
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   Rapidly rising population during stage 2 results from a dramatic increase in life expectancy. That, in turn, reflects falling death rates due to advances in

 

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medical and sanitation practices, improved food supply and distribution, and higher per capita incomes.
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____is characterized by low growth resulting from very high levels of crude birth and death rates.
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stage 1 of DTM
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The growth in population the occurred around 8000 B.C.  was the result of the _. People no longer entirely relied on _   and _  to obtain food.
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Agricultural Revolution, hunting and gathering
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1.         One attempt to summarize an observed voluntary relationship between population growth and economic development is the ______.It traces the changing levels of human fertility and mortality presumably associated with industrialization and urbanization. Over time, the model assumes that high birth and death rates will gradually be replaced by lower rates.

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Demographic Transitional Model (DTM).
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Two major problems that result from below replacement fertility

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1.       Economic questions that relating to an aging population

2.       Inability to find workers to drive economy

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published the book “Gray Dawn”
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Peter Peterson
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The subject of the book the Grey Dawn is
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how the rapidly aging population may eventually bring an inner generational warfare.
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Japan became the first country to have more people over 65 than under 15

Because of rapidly aging populations three consequences industrial revolution will have to accept are:

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1.       Lose of productivity

2.       Lose of creativity

3.          Lose of general economic health

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Japan became the first country to have more
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more people over 65 than under 15
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Eugencies improvement of society by
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Selective breeding
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The solution to eliminating poverty was
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to eliminate the poor
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____believed welfare should not be given to the poor
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Margaret Sanger
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In 1973 the _____ legalized abortion in the United States

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Roe V Wade
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The five leading infectious killers are:

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1.       Malaria

2.       Tuberculosis

3.       Pneumonia

4.       Diarrheal diseases

5.       Measles

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The purpose of the Cairo Plan was
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to stabilize the world’s population

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The three new policies promoted by the Cairo Plan were:
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1.       Giving women greater control over their lives

2.       Greater economic opportunities

3.       Giving women a greater voice in reproductive decisions

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The Cairo Plan recognized that to advance the goals of the plan depended on to increase
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education, economic, and political rights of women.
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Many people feel that developed nations are a greater threat to the environment than third world countries because of
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their production of pollution and demand on natural resources.
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The sex ratio is
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the number of males per 100 in a population
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