Deck 2: Population

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following is not one of the world's largest population concentrations?

A) East Asia
B) South Asia
C) Southeast Asia
D) Western Europe
E) North America

Answer 2

E

Question 3

A country with a high physiological density has

A) a lot of people.
B) a lot of people for every unit of farmland.
C) a lot of farmers for every unit of farmland.
D) a lot of farmland.
E) a lot of farmland for every farmer.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The most populous country in the Southeast Asia region is

A) Bangladesh.
B) China.
C) India.
D) Indonesia.
E) Thailand.

Question 5

Wealthier countries have lower values than poorer countries for all but which demographic measure?

A) life expectancy
B) natural increase rate
C) total fertility rate
D) crude birth rate
E) infant mortality rate

Question 6

A country with a large amount of arable land and a small number of farmers will have a

A) high physiological density.
B) low physiological density.
C) high agricultural density.
D) low agricultural density.
E) low arithmetic density.

Question 7

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.

Question 8

Human beings avoid all but which of these regions?

A) cold lands
B) dry lands
C) warm lands
D) wet lands
E) high lands

Question 9

The Indus and Ganges river plains hold a major part of what world population cluster?

A) South Asia
B) East Asia
C) Europe
D) Southeast Asia

Question 10

Physiological density is the number of

A) acres of farmland.
B) farmers per area of farmland.
C) people per area of land.
D) people per area suitable for agriculture.
E) farm animals per area suitable for agriculture.

Question 11

For every 1,000 babies born in India in 2011,an estimated 50 of them will have died before reaching their first birthday.The rate of 50 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.

Question 12

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 for the available resources.
E) too few farmers for the large area of land suitable for agriculture.

Question 13

The ________ rate in more developed countries is higher on average than in less developed countries.

A) birth
B) natural increase
C) infant mortality
D) total fertility
E) death

Question 14

The most common measure of density,the number of people per area of land,is known as ________ density.

A) arithmetic
B) physiological
C) mathematic
D) geometric
E) agricultural

Question 15

To calculate a country's dependency ratio,one needs to know the country's population and

A) the number of children still receiving financial support from their parents.
B) the number of people who are actively looking for work but are unable to find it.
C) all of a country's population younger than age 15 or older than age 64.
D) the number younger than age 15.
E) the number older than age 64.

Question 16

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.

Question 17

Arranging a country's population along a bar graph representing ages and genders creates a population

A) pyramid.
B) graph.
C) demograph.
D) map.
E) line.

Question 18

Geographers define overpopulation as

A) too many people in the world.
B) too many people compared to environmental capacity.
C) too many people in a region.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 19

Land suited for agriculture is called

A) population density.
B) agricultural density.
C) physiological density.
D) arid land.
E) arable land.

Question 20

The world's most populous country is

A) China.
B) India.
C) the United States.
D) Russia.
E) Europe.

Question 21

Country X has a crude birth rate of 40 and a crude death rate of 15.In what stage of the demographic transition is this country?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
E) Stage 5

Question 22

The highest natural increase rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
E) Stage 5

Question 23

The highest crude death rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
E) Stage 5

Question 24

Which stage of the demographic transition cannot be found anywhere in the world today?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4

Question 25

As a country moves through the demographic transition,we can expect its elderly support ratio to

A) increase.
B) decrease.
C) stay the same.
D) None of these: the elderly support ratio isn't affected by the demographic transition.

Question 26

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.

Question 27

One approach to decreasing birth rates is to increase the education of

A) children.
B) contraceptives.
C) women.
D) men.
E) college graduates.

Question 28

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.

Question 29

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

Question 30

A country goes through

A) the epidemiological transition and the demographic transition simultaneously.
B) first the demographic transition, then the epidemiological transition.
C) first the epidemiological transition, then the demographic transition.
D) the demographic transition first if it's a more developed country.
E) the epidemiological transition first if it's a more developed country.

Question 31

Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that

A) both have low growth rates.
B) both have high dependency ratios.
C) both have low life expectancies.
D) neither is presently observed.

Question 32

The One Child Policy was effective at reducing the natural increase rate in

A) India.
B) Nigeria.
C) Sierra Leone.
D) China.
E) Cape Verde.

Question 33

The future may hold a new stage of the demographic transition marked by

A) a return to stage 1 conditions.
B) a negative natural increase rate.
C) increasing family size.
D) a reversal of the stages.
E) population stability at Stage 4.

Question 34

A key obstacle to declining birth rates is

A) religious opposition to some birth control methods.
B) economic incentives in favor of smaller families.
C) women attending school in greater numbers.
D) increased health care leading to decreased infant mortality.
E) increased distribution of contraceptives.

Question 35

Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition is characterized by a high ________ rate.

A) natural increase
B) death
C) life
D) natural decrease
E) longevity

Question 36

The lowest crude birth rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
E) Stage 5

Question 37

Thomas Malthus concluded that

A) population increased 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 rates.
D) population growth was outpacing available resources in every country.
E) crude birth rates must balance crude death rates.

Question 38

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.

Question 39

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.

Question 40

Which stage of the demographic transition are the world's richest countries in?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4

Question 41

Dr.John Snow found that cholera cases in London were

A) spatially associated with a certain public wells.
B) being punished for their sins.
C) transmitted through the air in contagious diffusion.
D) spread through trade routes by infected rats.

Question 42

Which stage of the epidemiological transition is known as the stage of "reemergent infectious diseases"?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
E) Stage 5

Question 43

Developing countries must face increasing proportions of older people in their populations.

Question 44

Population concentrations are generally in low-lying areas with fertile soil.

Question 45

A country of 30,000,000 people has a crude birth rate of 10.This means that in one year 3,000,000 babies were born.

Question 46

Which stage of the epidemiological transition is known as the stage of "delayed degenerative diseases"?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
E) Stage 5

Question 47

Most population growth is presently concentrated in more developed countries.

Question 48

Which of the following is not a reason for the reemergence of infectious diseases?

A) poverty
B) evolution
C) improved travel
D) improved medicine

Question 49

The most lethal epidemic in recent years has been

A) avian flu.
B) AIDS.
C) malaria.
D) cholera.
E) SARS.

Question 50

The highest crude birth rates are found in Africa,Asia,and Latin America.

Question 51

Which stage of the epidemiological transition is known as the stage of "receding pandemics"?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
E) Stage 5

Question 52

Increasing the education of women is generally associated with declining birth rates.

Question 53

The epidemiological transition focuses on distinctive ________ at different stages of the demographic transition.

A) patterns of growth
B) causes of death
C) rates of growth
D) life expectancies
E) fertility rates

Question 54

More people are alive now than at any time in the past.

Question 55

The demographic transition is a process that can move forward or backward.

Question 56

The physiological density of Egypt is 2,580 persons per square kilometer,while the arithmetic density is 75.This means that most of the country's land is unsuitable for intensive agriculture.

Question 57

If there were a fifth stage of the demographic transition,Japan would qualify for it.

Question 58

Infectious diseases develop resistance to ________ when used improperly.

A) antibiotics
B) people
C) infants
D) degeneration
E) DDT

Question 59

Which stage of the epidemiological transition is known as the stage of "pestilence and famine"?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
E) Stage 5

Question 60

Which stage of the epidemiological transition is known as the stage of "degenerative diseases"?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
E) Stage 5

Question 61

The epidemiological transition occurs independently of the demographic transition.

Question 62

Explain why or why not it is possible for a country's IMR to be higher than its CBR.

Question 63

Compare the birth control policies of India and China.

Question 64

Summarize the main stages of the demographic transition.

Question 65

According to Malthus,population increases geometrically,while food supply increases arithmetically.

Question 66

Identify and compare two different methods to decrease the birth rate in less developed countries.

Question 67

The AIDS epidemic has been the most lethal of recent epidemics.

Question 68

Why does Mexico have a lower crude death rate than the United States and why does Vietnam have a lower crude death rate than Sweden?