Ch. 2 Key Issue 2 - 3 Quiz

  1. The annual global population growth rate increased approximately ten thousand years ago because of the:
  2. Agricultural Revolution
  3. Demographic transition
  4. Industrial Revolution
  5. Medical Revolution
  6. Increase in the crude birth rate
  7. The Medical Revolution has been characterized by
  8. Development of new inventions
  9. Diffusion of medical practices to developing countries
  10. Increased agricultural productivity
  11. Invention of new medicines
  12. Increase in the crude birth rate
  13. More developed countries moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the demographic transition 200 years ago in part because of:
  14. The 1stagricultural revolution
  15. Invention of new transportation technologies
  16. People moving to cities
  17. Women choosing to enter the labor force
  18. Decreasing crude birth rates
  19. A crude birth rate of approximately 10 per 1000 is typical of a country in which stage of the demographic transition?
  20. Stage 1
  21. Stage 2
  22. Stage 3
  23. Stage 4
  24. Stages 2 and 3
  25. In contrast to the experience of More Developed Countries, Less Developed Countries entered Stage 2 of the DTM through
  26. A creation of higher levels of wealth
  27. Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
  28. Diffusion of medical technology from other countries
  29. Profound changes in their economic and social systems
  30. Banking innovations
  31. Continued high birth rates and rapidly declining death rates describe which stage of the demographic transition model?
  32. Stage 1
  33. Stage 2
  34. Stage 3
  35. Stage 4
  36. Stage 5
  37. The first Stage of the DTM is marked by:
  1. high birth rates and high but fluctuating death rates
  2. high birth rates and , low, stable death rates
  3. declining birth rates and continuing high death rates
  4. high birth rates and declining death rates
  5. stability caused by low birth rates and low death rates
  1. The theory of demographic transition says that:
  1. death rates increase but birth rates decrease with urbanization
  2. birth rates increase but death rates decrease with urbanization
  3. both birth and death rates increase with urbanization
  4. both birth and death rates decrease with urbanization
  5. urbanization has no significant impact on population growth
  1. Rapid increases in life expectancy are characteristic of which stage of the demographic transition model?
  1. Stage 1
  2. Stage 2
  3. Stage 3
  4. Stage 4
  5. Stage 5
  1. Country x has a crude birth rate of 40 and a crude death rate of 15. In what stage of the DTM is this country?
  2. Stage 1
  3. Stage 2
  4. Stage 3
  5. Stage 4
  6. Stage 5
  7. In the following graph of the demographic transitions of England and India, all of the following are true EXCEPT:
  8. Death rate declined prior to birth rate
  9. England started the demographic transition before India
  10. The changes in death and birth rates occurred over a much longer period of time in England
  11. India is still undergoing the transition, so its birth rate remains higher than its death rate
  12. England’s death rate dropped much faster than India’s
  1. The country with the narrowest (columnar) population pyramid is:
  2. Cape Verde
  3. Chile
  4. Denmark
  5. The United States
  6. Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo)
  7. The population pyramid of Naples, Florida is “upside down,” because the city has a large percentage of:
  8. Elderly people
  9. Young people
  10. Immigrants
  11. Females
  12. Infants
  1. A population pyramid with a wide base and dramatically narrowing as the age cohorts progress indicates which of the following:
  1. decline
  2. rapid growth
  3. slow growth
  4. stability
  5. some catastrophic disaster
  1. Which of the following characteristics of a national population is NOT evident from its population pyramid?
  1. age structure
  2. sex structure
  3. dependency ratio
  4. infant mortality rate
  5. rate of population growth
  1. A Broad-based population pyramid suggests that a country is in what stage of the demographic transition:
  1. Stage 2
  2. Stage 3
  3. Stage 4
  4. Stage 5
  1. In the following graph, what factor most likely accounts for the dramatic rise in human population:
  1. the end of the last ice age
  2. the Renaissance
  3. the Industrial Revolution
  4. World War II
  5. The Green Revolution
  1. The global population explosion after World War II reflected the effects of:
  1. the heavy death toll during the war with fewer births occurring
  2. massive industrialization attempts in both developing and developed countries
  3. the return of thousands of military men to their families from the war
  4. drastically reduced death rates in developing countries without simultaneous and compensating reductions in births
  5. government policies in Europe attempting to repopulate the war-torn countries
  1. The low rate of contraceptive use in Africa reflects the region’s
  1. Improving education of women
  2. low status of women
  3. rapid diffusion of contraceptives
  4. rising standard of living
  5. threat of contracting HIV/AIDS
  1. The United States has reduced its funding of international family planning efforts based on:
  2. Halting the industrialization of developing countries
  3. Concerns for the U.S. economy as wages in developing countries increases
  4. Anti-abortion political agendas
  5. Concerns that family planning will create a backlash against women’s rights
  6. Increased military spending to fight a war against terrorism
  7. Critics of Malthus’s theory believe his predictions to be incorrect for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
  8. The world’s supply of resources is not fixed but is expanding
  9. Larger populations actually stimulate economic growth and more jobs
  10. Larger populations promote increased innovations in increasing food production
  11. Poverty and hunger are not the result of food shortages but unequal distribution of available resources.
  12. It is impossible to predict the future
  13. In his theories, Malthus failed to recognize:
  1. the discovery of new inhabitable regions
  2. war and diseases
  3. population is limited by the availability of resources
  4. changes in human dietary patterns
  5. changes in technology
  1. What severe problem does Japan face as a result of its population structure?
  2. A shortage of workers
  3. Too many immigrants
  4. Not enough women in the work force
  5. Rising Crude Birth Rates
  6. Rising Natural Increase Rate
  7. All of the following characteristics are true of Stage 5 countries EXCEPT:
  8. Low CBR
  9. Increasing CDR
  10. Negative NIR
  11. Too few women in their childbearing years
  12. Rising TFR
  13. Overpopulation is equated with areas:
  1. of low death rates
  2. of imbalanced fertility rates and dependency ratios
  3. with a continuing imbalance between numbers of people and carrying capacity
  4. in the first stage of the demographic transition cycle with high fertility rates
  5. of high birth rates