ES Study
The crude birth rate is the number of live births per ____ persons in a given year.
1,000
The actual average replacement-level fertility for the whole world is slightly higher than
2 children per couple.
Women tend to have fewer and healthier children when they
All of these answers ( education, birth control, high paying jobs, indv rights)
The success of a family planning program is enhanced when
Contraceptives are widely available
which diagram does the graph on the left represent? (rectangle)
Germany
Which of the following statements about the world's population is false?
When the total fertility rate drops below the replacement-level fertility, the population is balanced and stops growing.
Which of the following would decrease the likelihood of a couple having a child?
Women have many opportunities to participate in the work force.
Which of the following implies the greatest built-in momentum for population growth?
a large number of people under the age of 15
The total fertility rate in the United States reached a peak
after World War II, in the mid-1950s.
Infant mortality rate refers to the number of children out of 1,000 that die
by their first birthday
The demographic transition model helps to explain why
death rates fall before birth rates
the graphs available are called
demographic diagrams (pyramid and rectangle w age)
Rapidly growing countries have an age structure that
has a broad base pyramid
What event in the mid-1700s significantly changed human population growth?
industrial revolution
Population age structure diagrams can be divided into all of the following categories except
infant
Basic family-planning policy in most countries includes all of the following except
limiting families to two children each
A high infant mortality rate is most often associated with
nutrition
The age structure of a population is the number or percentage of
persons of each sex t each age level
During demographic transitions, birth rates of a population are high during the
pre-industrial and transitional stages
Which is the proper sequence of steps in the demographic transition model?
pre-industrial, transitional, industrial, post-industrial
Government attempts to reduce population growth have included all of the following except
providing needed health care and food allotments to those who have more than a certain number of children.
Which of the following is not an economic factor decreasing the likelihood of a couple having a child?
religious beliefs
Which of the following is not a major factor for rapid population increase over the last 200 years?
technology allowed people to spend less time on menial labor and more time raising families
The industrialized country with the highest teenage pregnancy rate is
the United States.
The term demographic transition refers to
the decline in death rates followed by the decline in birth rates when a country becomes industrialized
The change that takes place in a demographic transition occurs when
the economic development of a country changes the population growth pattern.
All of the following reasons help explain why the United States has one of the highest infant mortality rates of developed countries except
the older age of women as a result of delaying having children
In the demographic transition model, ZPG in a country is likely to occur during
the post-industrial stage
In the demographic transition model, birth and death rates are high during
the pre-industrial stage
In the demographic transition model, death rates fall while birth rates remain high during
the transitional stage.
The population change in a particular year can be calculated by
(births + immigration) - (deaths + emigration)
Which of the following statements about human migration is false?
Migration from urban areas to rural areas in increasing worldwide
Which of the following statements is false?
The rise in the size of the human population is due primarily to a higher birth rate.
Age structure diagrams
are useful for comparing on population with another
