Population Test Review
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Explain why poor nations experience rapid population growth.
How is China controlling its population?
What factors contribute to lower fertility rates?
What is the average fertility rate in developing countries? In developed countries?
What is biotic potential?
Compare and contrast density dependent factors and density independent factors. Give
examples of each.
What is the World Bank? What are the typical characteristics of a World Bank project?
What is the difference between TFR and RFL?
Why was human population growth limited before 1900? (What’s the main reason?)
Describe human population growth from the beginning until today.
Why don’t population explosions generally occur in natural ecosystems?
What information does a population profile provide?
What is the main problem caused by human population growth?
Describe the 4 stages of demographic transition. Provide an example for each stage.
How can population growth in a developing country be effectively reduced?
What is the current population in the world? In the US?
What is the shape of a population profile of a developing country? A developed country?
Describe the 3 survivorship curves. Give an example of a species that experiences each type.
How do r-strategists differ from K-strategists?
If a population has a growth rate of 10%, how long is its doubling time?
What reasons exist for having many children?
How is logistic growth different from exponential growth?
Explain how nature limits a population.
Explain how a population’s consumption of natural resources might be controlled. Give two
examples of how nature slows down the consumption of natural resources by a population.
Describe one human activity that indicates that humans violate nature’s limits on population
growth.
Why may the trend of shifting population from rural to urban areas not be sustainable from a
resource point of view?
What is crude birth rate? What is crude death rate? How is population growth rate determined?