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Replacement level, the number if births needed to keep a populationat a stable level without immigration, requires a total fertility of

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2.1

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Which european country is at or above replacment level

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Kosovo

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Countries with aging populations attempt to stimulate economic growth to lessen the effect of rising medical and retirement cost by

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Promoting immigration

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Not all countries with aging populations resort to immigration to offset economic problems an example is

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Japan

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Almost everywhere on earth, total fertility rates TFR are

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Falling

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In the Western Hemisphere, total fertility rates fell below replacement level before 1989 in

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The United States, Canada, and Cuba

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The arithmetic density of population for a country is determined by dividing the total

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Population by the total area

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The problem with using arithmetic population density to investigate the population pattern of a country is that such a density figure does not take into consideration

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Internal clustering of people within the country

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It has been estimated that 98% of Egypt's population occupies only ____ percent of the country's total are

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3

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The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land is the

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Agricultural density

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Switzerlands physiologic density is ____ as/than its arithmetic density.

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10 times greater

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The worlds three largest population concentrations are all found on the same landmass, which is

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Eurasia

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Associated with the East Asian population cluster are ribbon like extensions of dense population penetrating the interior. These extensions represent

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Basins and lowlands of China's major rivers

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About ____ percent of the worlds population is concentrated in China

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25

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In India the greatest concentration of population is found on the

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Foothills of the Himalayan mountains

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Over large parts of Bangladesh the rural population density is between ____ people per square mile

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3000 and 5000

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Terrain and environment appear to have a different association with the population cluster of Europe that extends from the British isles into Russia than in Asia. This suggests that in Europe, terrain and environment play a

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Lesser role than in Asia

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The European population axis is directly related to the

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Orientation of cop fields

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In comparison to Asia, the percentage of the population living in urban places in Germany and the United Kingdom is

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Greater than Asia

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After the three Eurasian population clusters, the next ranking cluster comprises the east central United States and southeastern Canada. This cluster is not nearly as large as the smallest of the Eurasian clusters. It is, in fact only ___ the size

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One half

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The major focus of north Americas population is

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The megalopolis region

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Brazil's population is concentrated

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Along the Atlantic coast

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The major focus of Algerias population is

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Similar that of Tunisia

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Two physical geographic barriers create the boundaries of the South Asia population cluster are

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The himalaya mountains to the north and the mountains west of the Indus River valley in Pakistan

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Asian population extensions reflect fertile river valleys, while the European extension reflects

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The orientation of Europes coal fields

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Various organizations protested the 2000 U.S. Census because

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Of the possibility of under counting disadvantages populations

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In 1789, a British economist named Thomas Malthus published an essay in which he claimed that while population increased at what he called a geometric rate, the means of subsistence grew only at

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An arithmetic linear rate

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Food production, contrary to the predictions of Malthus, has grown exponentially because of a number of factors. Which one of the following is not one of these factors

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An increase in the number of farmers in Britain

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Births and _____ add to the population growth of a particular country

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Immigration

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Today, world population doubling time is

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Increasing taking longer to double

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At the present rate of births and deaths in the world, we are adding about____millions inhabitants every year

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80

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Between 1820 and 1930, world population

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Doubled

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The growth rate of population of the southern cone region of South America (chile Uruguay Argentina) is ____ the worlds average of 1.4%

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Less than

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Most of the countries with low population growth rates are also among the wealthiest. An exception to this would be

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Russia

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In the 1970s, the government of India used this method to reduce the population growth rates in certain areas of the country

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Forces sterilization of males

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____ have annual natural rates of population increase above 3.0%

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Mali and Uganda

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The statistics that report the number of deaths per thousand people in a given year is called

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The crude death or mortality rate

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Demographically, Great Britain experienced a _____ in the period from the late 1800s through WWII

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Population explosion

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The mortality rate in the United States

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Is higher than in Mexico

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Between 1650 and 1930 earths population increased by

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1.5 billion

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The population of a country, city or other region is a function of three variables. Which is NOT one of the variables

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Ethnic background

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The lowest infant mortality rate among countries with large populations is in

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Japan

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Sub Saharan Africa's high mortality rate is strongly influenced by

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AIDS

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According to the United Nations, in 2007 approximately ____ of all HIV cases were in subsaharan Africa

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68%

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Low population growth resulting from high CBR and very high CDR is characteristics of stage ____ of the demographic transition

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1

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In Europe the marked decline of the birth rate was the result of

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The effects of industrialization urbanization and general modernization

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Highest rates of infant mortality are found in this region

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East Asia

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Population policies which favor the promotion of birth control among certain ground population are referred to as

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Eugenics

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The infant mortality rate in California is

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Higher in Massachusetts

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A vectored infectious disease is

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Transmitted by an intermediary, such as mosquito

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The number of African countries below replacement level

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Low

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