Question | Answer |
Cohort | People born at the same time |
Who came up with the Malthusian Theory? | Thomas R. Malthus. |
What is the malthusian theory? | population grows faster than the subsistence needed to keep it alive |
What can this theory predict for the future? | Famine |
In what way of increase does pop grow? | Exponentially |
What are 3 things that keep the pop in check? | Famine, war, and disease |
Example of a preventive check for the pop. | Abstinence |
What did malthus fail to see? | advancement of farmland, medicine, and contraceptives |
Demographic Transition theory | countries pass through pop patterns that are linked to a technology, ending in birthrate being low. |
How many stages are there in pop change? | 3 |
1st stage | High birthrate, high death rate. (colonial times where women had 13 children but also had high death rate due to tech in medicine) |
2nd stage | High birthrate, declining death rate. Increases the pop. (industrial times were healthier, while people had 13 kids anyway) |
3rd stage | low birthrate, low death rate. Causes pop to stabilize. |
Criticism on the demographic transition theory | Based one countries of white majority and is ethnocentric. |
What is rational choice theory | People are capable of choosing the number of children and what to do. |
Human ecology definition | The study of dependencies that exist between people and their environment. (plants need carbon dioxide and humans need oxygen) |
Human ecosystem | A system of parts where people interact with each other in an environment. |
two most important things about an ecosystem | Resources are limited and one thing effects everything. |
thermal pollution | When pollution affects the temperature and starts killing things. |
Environmental racism | Dumping shiz where there is a high concentration of minorities |
Why isn't the poor environment being saved? | Bc companies are worried they'll lose money |