Have an account?
Skip to Content
Build your own quiz
35 questions
Show Answers
See Preview
- 1. Multiple Choice
Highest birth rates
demography
less developed countries
age structure
total fertility rate
- 2. Multiple Choice
The distribution of ages in a specific population at a certain time
age structure
arable land
suvivorship
urbanization
- 3. Multiple Choice
Percentage of members of a group that are likely to survive to a given age
age structure
urbanization
survivorship
demography
- 4. Multiple Choice
Movement of individuals out of a population
emigration
infrastructure
suvivorship
age structure
- 5. Multiple Choice
The study of populations
emigration
demographic transition
demography
urbanization
- 6. Multiple Choice
Movement of people into cities from rural areas
total fertility rate
age structure
urbanization
arable land
- 7. Multiple Choice
The basic facilities and services that support a community
arable land
infrastructure
suvivorship
total fertility rate
- 8. Multiple Choice
Land that can be used to grow crops
arable land
least developed countries
demographic transition
urbanization
- 9. Multiple Choice
A model that describes how changes in a population may occur
demography
age structure
demographic transition
total fertility rate
- 10. Multiple Choice
Average number of children a woman gives birth to in her lifetime
age structure
emigration
suvivorship
total fertility rate
- 11. Multiple Choice
Professionals who study and make predictions about human populations are called
stenographers
demographers
geologists
populists
- 12. Multiple Choice
The human population doubled from 2 billion to 4 billion in
100 years
75 years
44 years
25 years
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which factor contributed most to exponential human population growth?
more food, better hygiene
higher birth rates
higher fertility rates
increased immigration
- 14. Multiple Choice
A population pyramid is created by
studying a group of people and noting when each member dies
graphing the distribution of ages in a population at a specific time
calculating the number of children a woman gives birth to in her lifetime
estimating the demand for services within a community
- 15. Multiple Choice
Educating women worldwide has lowered birthrates partly because
educated women bear many children to ensure some survive
educated women may learn family planning techniques
educated women contribute less to their family income
all of these
- 16. Multiple Choice
Human population growth was most rapid during which period of human history?
Ice ages
stone age
bronze and iron age
modern age
- 17. Multiple Choice
The 1991 cholera outbreak in Lima, Peru was caused by
lack of clean water
inadequate medical care
widespread malnutrition
rats and other rodents
- 18. Multiple Choice
Because birth rates have begun to fall Earth’s population will
soon stabilize at the level it is today more than 7 billion
begin to decrease until it reaches 5 billion
increase for a short time and then decrease to current levels
stabilize somewhere around 9 billion by 2300
- 19. Multiple Choice
Currently, the fastest-growing populations are in
Europe
North America
Asia
Austrialia
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which of the following makes it difficult to reduce population growth?
high literacy rates result in women wanting to have more children
population sizes will not decline until some people start having to do without food and other necessities of life
many people live in cities where large families are an advantage
many people have low literacy and limited access to healthcare
- 21. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not a strategy that could slow population growth?
public advertising
economic incentives
legal punishments
limiting education for women
- 22. Multiple Choice
The human population doubled from 2 billion to 4 billion people in
about 130 years
about 44 years
about 95 years
about 175 years
- 23. Multiple Choice
Some under-developed countries have tried to control population growth by
increasing fertility rate
decreasing fertility rate
increasing emigration
decreasing emigration
- 24. Multiple Choice
Suburban sprawl, over-crowded schools, polluted rivers, and inadequate housing are symptoms of
stable populaiton size
overwhelming population growth
declining population size
slow population growth
- 25. Multiple Choice
Access to adequate food, clean water, and safe sewage disposal have resulted in a decline in
life expectancy
the birth rate
the death rate
infant health
- 26. Multiple Choice
According to the theory of demographic transition, populations in Stage 1 tend to
increase
decrease
remain the same
be large
- 27. Multiple Choice
Suburban sprawl results in
traffic jams
inadequate infrastructure
reduction of land for farms, ranches, and wildlife habitat
all of these
- 28. Multiple Choice
A population’s age structure is represented by a
population pyramid
survivorship curve
total fertility rate
migration rate
- 29. Multiple Choice
What is the main source of energy in the poorest countries?
coal
solar collections
wood
nuclear reactors
- 30. Multiple Choice
The graph of human population growth since 1200 BCE looks like
a J curve
an S curve
a horizontal line
a straight 45 degree line
- 31. Multiple Choice
Infant mortality rates are least effected by
average income
parents access to education
clean water
adequate food
- 32. Multiple Choice
Life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa has declined due to the epidemic of
tuberculosis
AIDS
influenza
bubonic plaque
- 33. Multiple Choice
A population will shrink if deaths + emigrants exceeds
deaths plus births
immigration plus emigration
births plus immigrants
the carrying capacity of a nation
- 34. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not part of a community’s infrastructure?
public water supply
power plants
sewer lines
arable land
- 35. Multiple Choice
The movement of individuals between areas is called
migration
life expectancy
survivorship
urbanization
- Answer choicesTagsAnswer choicesTags