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Chapter 20 Population, Urbanization, and the Environment

Chapter 20 Population, Urbanization, and the Environment

Q 1.Your best friend Sky is hoping to start a new city on an island in the Pacific. Which sociologist would you suggest she read first, before setting out? 2.What is one way the people of the United States, and the world, are reaching and abusing the Earth's carrying capacity? 3.Why do we have two words for a big city: metropolis and megalopolis? 4.Paris has been studying the demography of the United Kingdom. The U.K. is very similar to the United States or Sweden in that it is industrialized, has relatively long life expectancy, and infant mortality is low. Which stage in the Demographic Transition Theory would the U.K. fall into? 5.Melissa has been working to develop drought-resistance seeds that require little water to grow and which produce grain. She wants to send these to arid parts of the world, where conventional grain is not easy (or even impossible) to grow to improve nutrition for the people in those countries. In sociological terms, Melissa most likely ascribes to:

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1.Gideon Sjoberg 2.We show little concern about contaminating water with our garbage and waste. 3.A metropolis is just one city while a megalopolis includes many different cities. 4.Stage 4 5.Cornucopian theory