APEC 100 EXAM 1
What is sustainable development? - ✔✔Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Millennium Goals - ✔✔1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development ( improve trade)
Millennium Goals #1 - ✔✔Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Millennium Goals #2 - ✔✔Achieve universal primary education
Millennium Goals #3 - ✔✔Promote gender equality and empower women
Millenium Goals #4 - ✔✔Reduce child mortality
Millenium Goals #5 - ✔✔Improve maternal health
Millenium Goals #6 - ✔✔Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Millenium Goals #7 - ✔✔Ensure environmental sustainability
Millenium Goals #8 - ✔✔Develop a global partnership for development
Does family size generally increase or decrease as a country develops? -
✔✔Decreases becuase there is more education about sex and they have lower fertility
rate
Earth's makeup - ✔✔70% is water- 3% is freshwater
30% is land- agriculture 11%, pasture 24%, forest 31%, mountains/urban desert 34%
Is the amount of protected land increasing? - ✔✔protected areas are increasing
is air pollution improving? - ✔✔yes
, What do you think about the Millennium Development Goals? - ✔✔They have
improved poverty rates, decrease Malaria, education, etc in Africa but international
donor countries are not helping like they should be.
Biotic resources - ✔✔living resources
ex: fish, wildlife, trees, grass
Abiotic resources - ✔✔non-living resources
ex: sunlight, minerals, air, water, solar and atomic radiation
Is soil abiotic or biotic? - ✔✔mix of both because there are rocks but also living
organisms
renewable resource - ✔✔A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at
which the resource is consumed
ex: wind, hydropower, solar energy, geothermal, biomass
nonrenewable resource - ✔✔a resource that cannot be replaced
ex: oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear energy
what are the types of land ownership? - ✔✔no ownership, private ownership, common
property
Cultural beliefs of land ownership - ✔✔Native perspective: one cannot "own" land yet,
one may live within the land
The US has believes that people are entitled to have private property and private
property rights
common land is defined as common interests and needs (tragedy of the commons)
private property rights - ✔✔the concept that people have the right and privilege to
control their possessions as they wish
Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) - ✔✔English political economist; analyzed populations to
increase rapidly and often faster than the food supply
In 1798 he wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population; opposite of Rousseau
What did Thomas Malthus believe? - ✔✔believed that the world population would
exceed food supplies because societies have historically experienced famine,
epidemics.
What is sustainable development? - ✔✔Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Millennium Goals - ✔✔1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development ( improve trade)
Millennium Goals #1 - ✔✔Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Millennium Goals #2 - ✔✔Achieve universal primary education
Millennium Goals #3 - ✔✔Promote gender equality and empower women
Millenium Goals #4 - ✔✔Reduce child mortality
Millenium Goals #5 - ✔✔Improve maternal health
Millenium Goals #6 - ✔✔Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Millenium Goals #7 - ✔✔Ensure environmental sustainability
Millenium Goals #8 - ✔✔Develop a global partnership for development
Does family size generally increase or decrease as a country develops? -
✔✔Decreases becuase there is more education about sex and they have lower fertility
rate
Earth's makeup - ✔✔70% is water- 3% is freshwater
30% is land- agriculture 11%, pasture 24%, forest 31%, mountains/urban desert 34%
Is the amount of protected land increasing? - ✔✔protected areas are increasing
is air pollution improving? - ✔✔yes
, What do you think about the Millennium Development Goals? - ✔✔They have
improved poverty rates, decrease Malaria, education, etc in Africa but international
donor countries are not helping like they should be.
Biotic resources - ✔✔living resources
ex: fish, wildlife, trees, grass
Abiotic resources - ✔✔non-living resources
ex: sunlight, minerals, air, water, solar and atomic radiation
Is soil abiotic or biotic? - ✔✔mix of both because there are rocks but also living
organisms
renewable resource - ✔✔A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at
which the resource is consumed
ex: wind, hydropower, solar energy, geothermal, biomass
nonrenewable resource - ✔✔a resource that cannot be replaced
ex: oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear energy
what are the types of land ownership? - ✔✔no ownership, private ownership, common
property
Cultural beliefs of land ownership - ✔✔Native perspective: one cannot "own" land yet,
one may live within the land
The US has believes that people are entitled to have private property and private
property rights
common land is defined as common interests and needs (tragedy of the commons)
private property rights - ✔✔the concept that people have the right and privilege to
control their possessions as they wish
Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) - ✔✔English political economist; analyzed populations to
increase rapidly and often faster than the food supply
In 1798 he wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population; opposite of Rousseau
What did Thomas Malthus believe? - ✔✔believed that the world population would
exceed food supplies because societies have historically experienced famine,
epidemics.
