Key Issue #4 Quiz

  1. Thomas Malthus concluded that:
  2. A population increased arithmetically while food production increased geometrically
  3. The world’s rate of population increase was higher than the development of food supplies
  4. Moral restraint was producing lower crude birth rates
  5. Population growth was outpacing available resources in every country
  6. Crude birth rates must balance crude death rates
  7. In comparing Malthus’s theory to actual world food production and population growth during the past half-century, the principle difference is that
  8. Actual food production has been much higher than Malthus predicted
  9. Malthus’s theory predicted much higher food production than has actually occurred
  10. Actual population growth has been much lower than Malthus predicted
  11. Malthus’s theory predicted much higher population growth than has actually occurred
  12. Population increased geometrically while food production increased arithmetically
  13. The homeostatic plateau is reached when
  1. major technological revolutions occur
  2. wars or diseases wipe out large numbers of the population
  3. when the population of an area exceeds its carrying capacity
  4. the fertility rate approaches zero
  5. when the population of an area is equivalent to its carrying capacity
  1. 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
  1. 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. 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 Malthusian Theory is based on which of the following assumptions?
  1. Growth in productive capacity generally exceeds population increases
  2. Food production increases geometrically, while population grows arithmetically
  3. The world has an unlimited carrying capacity
  4. As urbanization occurs, the rate of population growth decreases
  5. Population tends to increase more rapidly than do the food supplies to support that population
  1. During the last quarter century, the birth rate has fallen most significantly in which of the following:
  1. Iran
  2. China
  3. France
  4. The United States
  5. Kenya
  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 principle reason for declining natural increase rates in less developed countries today is
  2. increased crude birth rates
  3. declining crude birth rates
  4. increasing crude death rates
  5. declining crude death rates
  6. balanced natural increase rates
  7. The low rate of contraceptive use in Africa reflects the region’s
  8. Improving education of women
  9. low status of women
  10. rapid diffusion of contraceptives
  11. all of the above
  12. A and B only
  13. A possible Stage 5 epidemiological transition is the stage of
  14. Pestilence and famine
  15. Receding pandemics
  16. Degenerative and human created diseases
  17. Delayed degenerative diseases
  18. Reemergence of infectious and parasitic diseases
  19. The most lethal epidemic in recent years has been
  20. Avian flu
  21. AIDS
  22. Malaria
  23. Cholera
  24. SARS
  25. In which stage of the epidemiological transition do countries experience declining rates of death caused by Cholera, Dysentery, Tuberculosis and other infectious pandemics?
  26. Stage 1
  27. Stage 2
  28. Stage 3
  29. Stage 4
  30. Stage 5
  31. In which stage of the epidemiological transition do countries experience a shift from infectious diseases to degenerative diseases as the major cause of death?
  32. Stage 1
  33. Stage 2
  34. Stage 3
  35. Stage 4
  36. Stage 5