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What factors have led to the explosive increase in the human population over the past 150 years?

Explain why a decrease in population growth rate is expected as a nonhuman population approaches carrying capacity.

When individuals in a population are evenly spaced throughout their habitat, their dispersion is termed as _____ A. clumped; B. uniform; C. random; D. excessive; E. exponential

A population growing exponentially __________ A. is stable in size; B. adds a fixed number of individuals every generation; C. adds a larger number of individuals in each successive generation; D. will likely expand forever; E. will not crash.

All of the following are density-dependent factors that can influence population size except _______ A. weather; B. food supply; C. waste concentration in the environment; D. infectious disease; E. supply of suitable habitat for survival

In contrast to nonhuman populations, human population growth rates have begun to decline due to _______ A. voluntarily increasing death rates; B. voluntarily decreasing birth rates; C. involuntary increases in death rates; D. involuntary decreases in birth rates; E. density-dependent factors

Populations that rely on stored resources are likely to overshoot the carrying capacity of the environment and consequently experience a _______ A. demographic momentum; B. cultural carrying capacity; C. decrease in death rates; D. population crash; E. exponential growth

The current carrying capacity of Earth for the human population may have been inflated by ______ A. demographic momentum; B. the tendency for women to want to control family size; C. an artificially low number of density-independent factors; D. our use of fossil fuels; E. recent population crashes

Demographic momentum refers to the tendency for _______ A. low population growth rates to continue to decline; B. high population growth rates to continue to increase; C. populations to continue to grow in number even when growth rates reach zero; D. populations to continue to grow in number even when women are reducing the number of children they bear; E. women to continue to have children even though they no longer wish to