DP Environmental Systems and Societies Questionbank

Identify two reasons for the projected increase in total fertility rate in Europe by the period 2045–2050.

Outline two possible reasons for the projected change in total fertility rate in Sub-Saharan Africa in the period 2045–2050.

The rate of world population growth is expected to slow so that by 2050 it will have stabilized at 10 billion. Explain three development policies that would enable the population to stabilize.

Including reference to their relative efficiency, discuss whether terrestrial or aquatic food production systems show the greatest potential for feeding a growing human population. Support your conclusion with valid reasons or evidence.

With reference to named countries, discuss the effectiveness and impacts of two different strategies for stabilizing their human population.

Evaluate the role of national and international development policies in reducing human population growth.

Development policies may address a range of different aspects of development that influence human population growth either directly, or through education, healthcare and economic growth.

Evaluate the direct and indirect influences of such development policies on factors affecting human population curves.

Fertility and crude birth rate can both be used as indicators of human population growth.

Explain the strengths and weaknesses of using each of these as indicators of growth in human populations.

Outline why the shape of the population pyramid in Figure 3 indicates a high future population growth for Zambia.

Estimate the number of people in the 15 to 19 age group in the population pyramid in Figure 3.

Outline one disadvantage of modelling future human population sizes.

Outline one advantage of modelling future human population sizes.

Outline one environmental implication of the highest projection for world population being realised.

Outline one economic implication of the highest projection for world population being realised.

Identify two factors that could explain the variation in the projected population growth for the world.

Calculate the range between the highest and lowest projected population size for 2100.

Technocentrists may support the belief that technological development has always been able to overcome limits to human population growth.

To what extent do the patterns of growth and development in human populations, as demonstrated in the Demographic Transition Model, support this claim?

With reference to Figure 3(b), outline two reasons for differences between the age-gender pyramids for Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

Identify the most densely populated country in Figure 3(a).

Outline how demographic tools can be used to study a human population.

With reference to Figures 3(a) and 3(b) describe the trends in Iceland’s population dynamic

With reference to Figures 2, 3(a) and 3(b), identify two reasons why Madagascar is considered to be at Stage 2 of the demographic transition model.

From the shape of the age-gender pyramid in the resource booklet, Figure 5(b), suggest how the population in Brazil is likely to change in the next 30 years.

Identify one reason why the natural increase rate, calculated in part (a), is different from the actual growth rate of the population, which was 0.63% in 2015.

Using data from Figure 5(a) in the resource booklet, calculate the natural increase rate for Brazil in 2015.