Take the wonderful World Population trivia to test your knowledge of human history and the impacts of population growth.
Geography
Demography
Geology
Ethnography
It caused an initial increase in the death rate because Europeans could not digest the potato.
It sparked a migration of people from the cities to rural areas wehre the potato could be cultivated
It caused Europe's population to soar as fertility increased and te death rate droppd.
It contributed to the nations of Europe achieving zero populatin growth
August Haley
Adolphe Quetelet
Thomas Malthus
Paul Erlich
Crude birth rate- crude death rate + net migration
Population grows geometrically while food supply grows arithmetically
Exponential grwoth - geometric growht + food supply
Populatin growth is a function of industrialization wile food supply is a function of the agrarian society
6 years
12 years
25 years
50 years
Demographic transtion theory
Population inversion theory
Geographic regression theory
Urban growth and development theory
Demographi free fall
Geographic implosion
Thinning the herd
Population transfer
Men control reproductive choice in the poor nations
They cannot afford to spend money on birth control
They are not educated about methods of birth control
Large familes are rewareded socially and econnomically
Population index
Population pyramids
Demographic pictures
Basic demographic equation
Race and ethnicity
Age and race
Age and sex
Race and sex
Faertility, mortality, migration
Age, sex, race
Politics, economy, family
Population, immigration, emigration
North america
Southeast asia
Eastern europe
Middle africa
More efficient agricultural practices
The invention of the steam engine
The rising literacy rate among common people
The industrialzatin of the feudal society
Amazon river basin
Southest asia
Mesopotamia
Oceania
Steam engine
Printing press
Plow
Wheel
London
Peking
New york
Paris
Growth of democracies
Fall of monarchies
Colonization movement
Industrial revolution
Regional city
Metro plex
Megalopolis
Edge cities
Metroplitan statsistical areas
Edge cities
Suburban regions
Specialized suburbs
Urban renovation
Gentrification
Urban networking
City upgrading
Scranton, PA
Provo, UT
Phoenix, AR
Orlando, FL
Relocation
Suburbanization
Migration
White flight
Environmental sociology
Ecological domination
Invasion and dominance
Human ecology
Invation-succession cycle
Invasion-dispersion cycle
Acculturation-assimilation cycle
Acculturation-succession cycle
Concentric zone
Multiple-nuclei
Sector
Urban village
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