As countries begin to industrialize, they enter ________, where birthrates are higher while infant mortality and the death rates drop. Life expectancy also increases.

The 1960s saw other important reforms in U.S. voting. Shortly before the Voting Rights Act was passed, the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. Sims changed the nature of elections. This landmark decision reaffirmed the notion of ________ a concept holding that all people’s votes should be counted equally. Before this decision, unequal distributions of population enabled small groups of people in sparsely populated rural areas to have as much voting power as the denser populations of urban areas. After Reynolds v. Sims, districts were redrawn so that they would include equal numbers of voters.

Although real poverty exists In the United States, we tend to have what is called ________, defined as being unable to live the lifestyle of the average person in your country.

The ________ of the economy extracts and produces raw materials like metals and crops.

The digital divide refers to ________.

________ encompasses all interactive forms of information exchange. These include social networking sites, blogs, podcasts, wikis, and virtual worlds.

The positive checks of Malthusian theory are countered by “preventive checks,” which also control the population but accomplish this by reducing fertility rates through

The positive checks of Malthusian theory are countered by “preventive checks,” which also control the population but accomplish this by reducing fertility rates through

Social movements have a life cycle, they ________. All social movements go through this cycle.

________ are interested in the creation and reproduction of inequality and study how peripheral nations’ lack of family planning affects their overall population in comparison to core nations that tend to have lower fertility rates.