GEO 120
Environmental Geography

Quiz 1 Answer Key

1. Current world population (within 100 million) 6.29-6.49 billion 6.4 billion
2. What stage of the demographic transition has the greatest population growth rate? 2
3. What specific event resulted in rapid population increases around 1750? Industrial Revolution
4-5. List the four major categories impacting population growth
6. ________ of the world's population growth occurs in developing countries a) 30% b) 50% c) 75% d) 90% e) 98%
7. Population is estimated to stabilize (peak out) at 10-12 billion
8. What were Malthus' predictions regarding population? population would increase geometrically, food supply arithmetically
9. A population growth rate of 2% will experience a doubling in population in ? years 35 yrs.

uindustrialization and urbanization, ucommercial and mechanized agriculture, umedical and sanitation advances, ucommunication and trade

10-11. Distinguish absolute from relative humidity absolute humidity is the weight of water vapor per unit area, relative humidity is the amount of water in the air compared with the amount of water the air can hold at the temperature it happens to be
12. Prime range for indoor relative humidity.  30-60 or 40-60%
13. Identify Country A Taiwan
14. Identify City B
P'yongyang,

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