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15 Cards in this Set
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With the current growth rate of 1.2%, the human global population at 2050 is likely to be over ______ billion
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nine
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The current population size of _______ is currently at 1.1 billion, and it is predicted that the country of ________ is the world’s most populous nation.
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India, China
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The _________ influences the size of a population by affecting the reproductive strategies that are used by the organisms.
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enviornment
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Organisms that live in an environment with unstable resources produce a large number of offspring. This type of reproductive strategy is known as ________.
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r-selection
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Species that use the _________ strategy live in an environment with predictable resources and a low predation rate.
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K-selection
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__________ is a measure of how many individuals an environment can support based on the availability of resources.
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carrying capacity
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Around the year 1 AD, the worlds human population was estimated to be about __________.
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300 million
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The development of societies based on __________ at about 10,000 years ago was largely responsible for expanding the human population.
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agriculture
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Since the industrial revolution, the large growth in the human population has been sustained by the development and the use of __________ for food production.
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technology
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Pandemic diseases, illiteracy, and sanitation breakdowns are just some of the results of human __________.
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overpopulation
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By 2050, the world population could reach 11 billion, if the global fertility rate remains above _____ children per family
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two
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It has been estimated that the _______ policy has reduced the population of China by as much as 300 to 400 million people
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one child
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Even though _______ has the longest life expectancy in the world, its population is shrinking because of low _________.
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Japan, birth rates
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Although the birth rate in the U.S. is relatively low, the U.S. population has continued to grow because of the addition of _________.
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immigrants
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Even though sub-Saharan African is experiencing an increase in its population, it also has an epidemic of _______, which is have devastating effects on its population.
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AIDS
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