AP®︎ Environmental Science: Topic 3.8 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 3.8 of AP Environmental Science – Human Population Dynamics.
Questions List
Topic 3.8
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: EIN-1.C.1
What factor contributes to population growth by lowering infant mortality rates?
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Topic 3.8: Human Population Dynamics
Learning Objective: EIN-1.C.1
Explain how human populations experience growth and decline.
Essential Knowledge: EIN-1.C.1
Birth rates, infant mortality rates, and overall death rates, access to family planning, access to good nutrition, access to education, and postponement of marriage all affect whether a human population is growing or declining.
Essential Knowledge: EIN-1.C.2
Factors limiting global human population include the Earth’s carrying capacity and the basic factors that limit human population growth as set forth by Malthusian theory.
Essential Knowledge: EIN-1.C.3
Population growth can be affected by both density-independent factors, such as major storms, fires, heat waves, or droughts, and density-dependent factors, such as access to clean water and air, food availability, disease transmission, or territory size.
Essential Knowledge: EIN-1.C.4
The rule of 70 states that dividing the number 70 by the percentage population growth rate approximates the population’s doubling time.
