Chapter 2: Population

Country X has a crude birth rate of 40 and a crude death rate of 15, while Country Y has a crude birth rate of 20 and a crude death rate of 9. Which country has a higher natural increase rate?... A) country X B) country Y C) the rate is the same in both countries D) the rate depends on total population, so it can't be computed from this information E) The rate depends on immigration, so it can't be computed from this information

A

Life expectancy is lowest on average in... A) Africa B) East Asia C) North America D) Europe E) Southeast Asia

A

Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that... A) both have low natural increase rates B) both have high crude birth rates D) both have low life expectancies E) neither are presently observed

A

The annual global population growth rate increased approximately 10,000 years ago because of the... A) agricultural revolution B) demographic transition C) Industrial Revolution D) women choosing to enter the labor force E) increase in the crude birth rate.

A

The annual natural increase rate is currently approximately... A) 1.2 percent B) 12 percent C) 1.2 per 1,000 D) 120 million C) 12 billion

A

The highest crude death rates are found in counties in which stage of the demographic transition?... A) Sage 1 B) Stage 2 C) Stage 3 D) Stage 4 E) Stage 5

A

The number of people who are too young or too old to work in a society compared to the number of working age people is the... A) dependency ratio b) life expectancy C) population pyramid D) sex ratio E) demographic ratio

A

The population pyramid of Naples, Florida, is "upside down," because the city as a large percentage of... A) elderly people B) young people C) immigrants D) females E) infants

A

The shape of a country's population pyramid is determined primarily by its... A) Crude birth rate B) crude death rate C) dependency rate D) sex ratio E) demographic ratio

A

The world's population in 1995 was approximately 6 billion and a stead rate of growth was expected to reach 12 billion in approximately 45 years. That period of 45 years is know as... A) doubling time B) life expectancy C) natural increase rate D) overpopulation E) demographic transiton

A

For every 1,000 babies born in Burundi in 2008, an estimated 120 of them will have died before reaching their first birthday. The rate of 120 deaths per 1,000 births is known as the... A) crude death rate B) infant mortality rate C) life expectancy D) total fertility rate E) terminal population rate

B

Japan is dealing with economic concerns about an aging population by... A) increasing the birth rate B) encouraging older people and women to work C) shifting jobs overseas D) encouraging immigration

B

More developed countries moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the demographic transition 200 years ago in part because of.. A) the agricultural revolution B) invention of new technology C) people moving to cities D) women choosing the enter the labor force E) decreasing crude birth rates.

B

The low rate of contraceptive use in Africa most accurately reflects the region's.... A) improving education of women B) low status of women C) rapid diffusion of contraceptives D) all of the these are true E) A and B

B

The most lethal epidemic in recent decades has been... A) avian flu B) AIDS C) malaria D) cholera E) SARS

B

the principal reason for declining natural increase rates in less developed countries today is.... A) increasing crude birth rates B) declining crude birth rates C) increasing crude death rates D) declining crude death rates E) balanced natural increase rates

B

If the physiological density is much larger than the arithmetic density, then a country has... A) inefficient farmers B) A large number of farmers C) a small percentage of land suitable for agriculture D) too many people of the available resources E) too few farmers for the large area of land suitable for agriculture

C

In contrast to the experience of more developed countries, less developed countries entered Stage 2 of the demographic transition through... A) creation of higher levels of wealth B) diffusion of the Industrial Revolution C) diffusion of medical technology from other countries D) Profound changes in their economic and social systems E) banking innovations

C

The Earth area of permanent human settlement is called the... A) hot zone B) civilized world. C) ecumene D) sub polar region

C

Two thirds of the world's population is clustered in four regions. Which of the following is NOT one of these four regions?... A) East Asia B) Southeast Asia C) Sub-Saharan Africa D) Europe E) South Asia

C

The lowest crude birth rates are found in counties in which stage of the demographic transition?... A) Sage 1 B) Stage 2 C) Stage 3 D) Stage 4 E) Stage 5

D

A possible stage five epidemiological transition would be the stage of.... A) pestilence and famine B) receding pandemics C) degenerative and human created diseases D) delayed degenerative diseases E) reemergence of infectious and parasitic diseases

E

Land suited for agriculture is called... A) population density B) agricultural density C) physiological density D) arid land E) arable land

E

Among world countries, the spread between the highest and lowest crude death rates is ______ than the spread between the highest and lowest crude birth rates... A) greater B) less C) the same as D) more related to income E) less dependent on social services

B

India and the United Kingdom have approximately the same arithmetic density. From this we can conclude that the two countries have the same... A) level of output per farmer B) number of people per area of land C) pressure placed by people on the land to produce food. D) number of farmers per area of land E) all of the above

B

Rapidly declining crude death rates are found in which stage of the demographic transition?.. A) Stage 1 B) Stage 2 C) Stage 3 D) stage 4 E) stage 5

B

In comparing Malthus's theory to actual world food production and population growth during the past half-century, the principal difference is that... A) actual food production has been much higher than Malthus predicted B) Malthus's theory predicted much higher food production than has actually occurred C) actual population growth has been much higher than Malthus predicted D) Malthus's theory predicted much higher population growth than has actually occurred E) population increased geometrically while food production increased arithmetically.

A

The total number of live births per year per 1,000 people in a society is the... A) crude birth rate B) life expectancy rate C) natural increase rate D) total fertility rate E) projected birth rate.

A

The highest natural increase rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?... A) Sage 1 B) Stage 2 C) Stage 3 D) Stage 4 E) Stage 5

B

Thomas Malthus concluded which of the following?... A) Population increases arithmetically while food production increased geometrically B) the world's rate of population increase was higher than the development of food supplies C) moral restraint was producing lower crude birth rate D) population growth was outpacing available resources in every country E) crude birth rates must balance rude death rates

B

When averaged for ALL less developed countries, which of the following rates is lower than more developed countries on average?.. A) crude birth rate B) crude death rate C) infant mortality rate D) natural increase rate E) total growth rate

B

Human Beings avoid all but which of these regions?... A) cold lands B) dry lands C) warm lands D) wet lands E) high lands

C

One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that.... A) the natural increase rate is larger every year B) there are fewer people in the world now than at the peak in the middle of the twentieth century. C) the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries D) people are uniformly distributed across Earth E) the less developed countries have the highest combined crude death rate.

C

The average number of births women bear in their lifetimes is... A) crude birth rate B) crude death rate C) total fertility rate D) natural increase rate E) increasing in more developed countries

C

The united States census is politically important because... A) immigrants without proper documentation are tracked and deported by the Census Bureau B) statistical sampling reveals the homeless people are over-counted C) diffusion of medical technology from other countries. D) profound changes in their economic and social systems E) every vote counts equally in a Presidential election

C

What was the first effect of the Industrial Revolution on population... A) it increased the birth rate B) children went to work in factories C) it decreased the death rate D) it increased the death rate

C

A Country with large amount of arable land and and a small number of farmer will have a... A) high physiological density B) low physiological density C) high agricultural density D) low agricultural density E) low arithmetic density

D

A decline in a country's crude Birth rate would result in an increase in the country's... A) total fertility rate B) life expectancy rate C) crude death rate D) doubling time E) natural increase rate

D

Most people live in cities in which of these regions? ... A) East Asia B) South Asia C) Southeast Asia D) Europe E) Sub-Saharan Africa

D

Costa Rica has a lower crude death rate than the United states because Costa Rica... A) has a higher sex ratio B) has more hospitals per person C) has a milder climate D) is in stage 4 of the demographic transition E) has a lower percentage of elderly people

E