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A town’s population size has been slowly increasing for the past five years. The town’s total electricity use has also slowly increased, until last year when it decreased slightly. Explain what could have caused the decrease.
a) less birth rate resulted in less consumption
b) people moved away
c) city engineering improvements resulted in more efficient energy use
d) people began using more water

Give two sources of renewable energy.
a) wind, petroleum
b) trees, fossil fuel
c) sun, ocean
d) sun, coal

Explain what is most likely to cause a population’s size to stay the same.
a) low death rate
b) nobody immigrates
c) nobody emigrates
d) birth rate = death rate

Which CLAIM most likely shows how natural resources and population size may be related?
a) As population size increases, more natural resources become available for use.
b) Population size grows faster in places where more natural resources are available.
c) The rate of natural resource use stays the same as population size increases.
d) Natural resource use decreases as population size increases.

Which EVIDENCE is most likely related to a decline in a population’s growth rate?
a) high immigration out of the area
b) improvements in medical care
c) decrease in death rate
d) increase in birthrate

How can a city decrease its per capita consumption of water?
a) It can limit the number of new people moving into the city.
b) It can increase the total amount of water available.
c) It can find a new source of water for the city.
d) It can encourage each citizen to use less water.

In 2016, Japan’s estimated birthrate was 8 births per 1,000 people. The estimated death rate was 10 deaths per 1,000 people. What most likely happened to Japan’s population size in 2016?
a) grew slowly
b) stayed the same
c) grew quickly
d) decreased slowly

Which of these resources is renewable?
a) the sun
b) natural gas
c) iron
d) coal

A city determines the average amount of electricity used by its residents over a year. Which term is used for this specific calculation?
a) per capita consumption
b) conservation science
c) population growth
d) resource use

Which CLAIM best reflects what has happened to the size of the human population over time?
a) Human population size did not change at all until around the year 1880.
b) The size of the human population has always increased at a steady rate.
c) The size of the human population began increasing rapidly within the last 200 years.
d) Human population size has grown slowly since the beginning of the Modern Age.

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