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Which of the following is closest to the world's total population today?

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7 Billion

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The TFR of the entire world's population has now reached the replacement level, which means that the global population is no longer growing.

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False

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Accelerating population growth, including the global population explosion, is essentially triggered by which of the following?

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Decreasing morality rates

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In which stage of the demographic transition model may a population begin to experience a negative rate of natural increase?

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Stage 3-NO Stage 2-NO

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Malthus believed that the future of human well-being was seriously hindered by the problems that accompanied rapid population growth.

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True

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Which of the following is the best definition of the Total Fertility Rate?

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Average number of children a woman has in her reproductive years.

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Globally, human life expectancy has risen from about ___ years in 1900 to 70 years today.

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29

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Political ecologists argue that politics and chronic food insecurity are completely unrelated phenomena.

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False

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Which stage of the demographic transition model has historically been the longest stage?

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Preindustrial

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What is the TFR threshold that is necessary to accomplish the condition of zero population growth? Hint: This is also called the "replacement level."

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2.1

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When the total fertility rate (TFR) is ______, a population is said to be at the replacement level.

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2.1

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Which of the following is closest to the actual range of the (global) CDR?

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0-30

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Globally, fertility rates are falling, and nearly 80 countries have TFRs at or below replacement level.

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True

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The higher the _____________ is, the greater the pressure that a population exerts on land that is used for agriculture.

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Physiological density

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Most academics, private analysts, and government policymakers abandoned Malthusian theory as a legitimate source of real concern during the 1940s and 1950s.

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False

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Without additional data, the Crude Death Rate cannot tell us much about the quality of life or health.

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True

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The lowest rates of natural increase are found in Russia and parts of Europe, where RNI figures dip to around -0.5 or so.

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True

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The study of _______________ examines the impacts populations have on their environments as well as the ways in which environmental conditions affect people and their livelihoods.

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Population Ecology

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Population (age-sex) pyramids provide graphic representation of population age structure, sex ratios, and likely growth trends.

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True

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A country's infant mortality rate is a good indicator of quality of life, but its crude death rate is not necessarily a good indicator of quality of life.

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True

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Which of the following rates of natural increase (RNI) indicates a population that is experiencing explosive population growth?

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3.3%

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In his Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus explained that the root of the human population problem was that population reproduces arithmetically, while food supply increases geometrically.

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False

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Globally, some of the lowest death rates - 1 to 2 deaths annually per 1,000 people - have been recorded in the Middle Eastern countries of ____________ and ___________.

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Qatar and Kuwait

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At 3:00PM Central Time on September 2, 2011, the world's human population was approximately 6,959,522,284. If the global rate of natural increase at that time, which was 1.2%, remained the same forever into the future, in what year would you expect the world's population to reach 13,919,044,568?

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2071

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The world's lowest birth rates are found among the peoples of:

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Europe, Russia, South Korea

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Historical data suggest that the one-child policy may not have been necessary to reduce China's TFR.

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True

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To calculate the rate of natural increase, geodemographers subtract the death rate from the birth rate and convert that figure to a percentage.

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True

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Blue zones are areas with unusually high:

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Life Expectancy

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The natural sex ratio, the proportion of male to female births, is _________.

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105:100

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In 2010, a country had 15.6 million people. The annual average rate of natural increase (RNI) was 2.0 percent. If the average annual RNI does not change, in what year would you expect the population to have about doubled?

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2046

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When did fertility reach its lowest level in China?

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early 2000s

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What is the third most-populous country in the Americas?

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Mexico

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Cornucopians are pro-natalist.

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True

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Pro-natalist policies are intended to raise the CBR.

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True

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Which of the following constitutes a positive check within Malthusian theory?

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Disease Epidemic

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The population pyramid's vertical axis represents:

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age, age cohort, or birth year

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A positive rate of natural increase indicates that the death rate is higher than the birth rate and there is a natural decrease in the population.

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False

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What country in the Americas is second in population to the United States?

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Brazil

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No country today remains in Stage 1 of the demographic transition model.

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True

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It is not unusual for highly-developed countries to have higher death rates than countries that are undergoing rapid industrialization.

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True

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Countries with relatively large proportions of elderly in their population tend to have higher crude death rates than moderate-income, industrializing countries with relatively younger populations.

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True

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Your text explains that this country experienced a decline in life expectancy since the 1990s and that the change in life expectancy has disproportionately affected men. What country is it?

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Russia

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Physiological density refers to the number of people per unit area of land, while arithmetic density (which is a better measure) refers to the number of people per unit area of arable land.

answer

False

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Across the developing world, children are considered an economic investment because they will be able to work and contribute to the family's income.

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True

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The one-child policy was directed primarily at rural people and ethnic minorities, especially Muslims.

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False

question

The CBR is more of a generalized measure of fertility than the TFR.

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True

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Significant populations in North Korea have had their growth stunted by chronic malnutrition.

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True

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Population growth is implied by a population pyramid with a narrow base.

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False

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Which of the following reached the replacement level most gradually?

answer

Europe

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Which of the following pairs of diseases include two that are associated more with highly-industrialized countries rather than developing countries?

answer

Diabetes, Cancer

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The demographic transition model is based on the historical record of:

answer

western Europe

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Which of the following do India and China have in common?

answer

All of the above

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A population of 23 million has a rate of natural increase of 2.65%. At the current growth rate, how many years will it take the country to reach a population of 46 million?

answer

Approx. 27 years

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Studies now indicate that literacy is linked to delays in marriage and childbirth, as well as higher rates of teen pregnancy.

answer

False

question

Geodemographers use the ________________ to determine the number of years it takes a population to double.

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RNI

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Anti-natalist policies use positive incentives, and sometimes penalties, to encourage fertility decline.

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True

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Which of the following would most certainly argue that the concept of a global human carrying capacity is completely misguided?

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Cornucopians

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Today in China there are many more males than females.

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True

question

To estimate the doubling time of a population, we divide the number 70 by the present rate of natural increase.

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True

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Which of the following is closest to the U.S. CBR?

answer

13

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Today's Neo-Malthusians, quite ironically, are people who promote population growth and pro-natalist government policies.

answer

False

question

Which of the following factors are related to a population's Total Fertility Rate?

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All of the above

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Because of his concern about future overpopulation, Thomas Malthus was among the first progressives to promote universal sex education, the distribution of condoms, and free access to abortion.

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False

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Australia is more populous than the Philippines.

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False

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Nearly 70 percent of the human population today resides within 250 miles of a seacoast.

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True

question

Which of the following is the best measure of the quality of life of a population?

answer

Infant mortality rate

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How many historical epidemiological transitions to researchers identify?

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3

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Which of the following pairs are the world's two most populous countries?

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China, India

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In the United States and a few European countries, women have slightly longer life expectancies than men, but this is not the case in most countries.

answer

False

question

_________ and _________ together account for 37% of the global population.

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China, India

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In which stage of the demographic transformation model does a population begin rapid growth?

answer

2

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In statistical tables, the CDR is expressed as the percentage of the total population that dies each year.

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False

question

Germany is more populous than Nigeria.

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False

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There are many more females than males in China, and this is a primary reason why it has such a high rate of natural increase.

answer

False

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An age-dependency ratio of 100 means that the working-age population is higher than the age-dependent population.

answer

False

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About ____ percent of the world's human population lives within 250 miles of a sea coast.

answer

70

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People younger than ________ and older than _________ are termed age dependents because most of them do not work on a full-time basis.

answer

15,65

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Population pyramids provide graphic representation of all of the following, EXCEPT:

answer

Population Density

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