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Unit #2 – Population & Global Impact

Quiz - Rubenstein Chapter 2

1. _____Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning the world's population?

a. it is unevenly distributed over the land surface

b. growth rates differ from place to place

c. it is evenly distributed over the land surface

d. often areas that seem already overpopulated have the highest growth rates

2. Every rate of growth, including population growth, has a doubling time which is the time it takes a population to double in size. Currently, the global doubling time rate is 1.2% per year which means the world’s population will double in approximately ________ years?

a. 25

b. 50

c. 10

d. 100

3. _____ Which of the following countries most likely has the highest total fertility rate?

a. Italy

b. Norway

c. Mexico

d. Niger

4. _____ Medical researchers have identified a (an) ______________________transition that focuses on specific causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.

a. epidemiologic

b. migratory

c. mortality

d. population

5. _____ When one takes the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate and then converts it into a percentage, one would come up with this rate?

a. Rate of demographic transition

b. Rate of arithmetic density

c. Rate of natural increase

d. Rate of world population growth

6. _____ One would expect to find a population with a relatively old age structure in:

a. less developed countries

b. highly developed countries

c. countries with a high fertility rate

d. countries with a low standard of living

7. _____ Which of the following countries has the LOWEST arithmetic density?

a. Bangladesh

b. Japan

c. Mongolia

d. United States

8. _____ A population pyramid with a large base can best be related to the demographic idea of?

a. High TFR

b. Low TFR

c. High Infant Mortality Rates

d. Stage 4 Demographic Transition

9. _____ Disease that diffuses over a wide geographic area such as AIDS and cholera and affect a large number of the population are BEST known as _________ diseases?

a. Endocromic

b. Pandemic

c. Epidemic

d. Anemic

10. _____ The Demographic Transition Model consists of four distinct stages that a country might pass through. The stage that represents low CBR and CDR countries is identified as?

a. Stage 1

b. Stage 2

c. Stage 3

d. Stage 4

11. _____ 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:

a. an arithmetic (linear) rate

b. a rate depending on the particular culture involved

c. a declining rate

d. an unpredictable rate

12. _____ A country that has reached a stage where its population is stabilized or even declining slightly may not have the problems of population increase but they do have another serious problem. This problem is:

a. an economic boom

b. a shortage of young workers

c. an increase of young workers who need jobs

d. a sudden increase in school-age children who require education

13. _____The measure of the number of children that are born to women of childbearing age in the population is called the:

a. actual birth rate

b. crude birth rate

c. total fertility rate

d. adjusted birth rate

14. _____ The demographic cycle (or demographic transition) has four stages: (1) high stationary stage, (2) early expanding cycle, (3) late expanding cycle, and (4) late stationary stage. The actual transition is represented by stages:

a. three and four

b. one and two

c. two and three

d. one and three

15. _____ As countries pass through the different stages of the Demographic Transition, which of the following is MOST likely to occur with regard to the dependency ratio?

a. The number of people over the age of 64 decreases

b. The number of people over the age of 64 increases

c. The number of people below the age of 15 increases

d. The level of medical care for those over the age of 65 is vastly reduced

16. _____ The portion of the earth’s surface occupied by permanent human settlement is called the:

a. Arithmetic density

b. Sex ratio

c. Ecumene

d. Demographic transition

17. _____ With regard to sex ratio, which of the following statements is TRUE?

a. Globally, there are more males than females

b. In the United States, there are more people under the age of 15 who are females

c. In India and China more females are born than males

d. In the United States men outnumber women after the age of 40

18. _____ The ratio of the number of people in a population under the age of 15 and over the age of 64 in relation to the rest of the population is known as the:

a. Rate of Natural Increase

b. Dependency or Elderly Support Ratio

c. Epidemiologic Ratio

d. Demographic Ratio

19. _____ The fact that crops grown on a hectare of land in Egypt must feed far more people than in the United States represents the concept of?

a. Arithmetic density

b. Agricultural density

c. Physiologic density

d. Agricultural revolution

20. _____ The Industrial Revolution, a conjunction of major improvements in industrial technology and medical technology can BEST be associated with countries entering this stage of the Demographic Transition?

a. Stage 1

b. Stage 2

c. Stage 3

d. Stage 4

Extra Credit (2 points each)

1. ______ The Demographic Transition model, when originally created, dealt with the demographic cycle of which of the following countries? Likewise, that country and the U.S. are currently going through the ______ stage respectively which tells geographers it has a low rate of population growth.

a. England/First stage

b. England/Fourth stage

c. India/First stage

d. France/Fourth stage

2. ______ According to the 2011 World Population Data sheet, this country has the lowest rate of natural increase (-0.5)?

a. Liberia

b. Serbia

c. Japan

d. Ukraine

3. _____ In MDCs (More developed world) the percentage of women using some form of contraceptive method(s) is approximately ________________.

a. 50%

b. 25%

c. 85%

d. 70%

4. _____ According to the 2011 World Population Data sheet, this African country has the lowest life expectancy at 41 years?

a. Botswana

b. Malawi

c. Swaziland

d. Lesotho

5. _____ Which of the following is TRUE regarding agricultural density?

a. The United States has a very high agricultural density

b. Egypt has a very low agricultural density

c. The United States has a very low agricultural density

d. The Netherlands has a very high agricultural density

6. _____ Per the 2011 World Population data sheet, the top 15 countries on the list of those which have the highest % of their population infected with HIV/Aids are in Africa. The country with the next highest % outside of Africa is?

a. Bahamas

b. Mexico

c. Vietnam

d. Haiti

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