Population Growth Alone Would Not Have Had Such a Huge

question 21

Multiple Choice

Population growth alone would not have had such a huge impact on the environment were it not for the accompanying fact that

• A) people have been having fewer children.
• B) there has been an intensive increase in the use of resources.
• C) the atmospheric conditions have been shifting.
• D) humans have settled in increasingly vulnerable parts of the planet.

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Definitions:

Monopolist

A single seller in a market who has significant control over the price and supply of a product or service.

Horizontal Labor Supply Curve

Suggests that the supply of labor remains constant regardless of changes in wage rates.

Returns To Scale

The rate at which output increases as inputs are increased proportionately in the production process, indicating economies or diseconomies of scale.

Downward-Sloping

A term used to describe a graph line that decreases in height as it moves from left to right, commonly associated with demand curves in economics, indicating that quantity demanded decreases as price increases.