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1. In the shift from stage one to stage two of the demographic transition, changes in population growth are generally associated with changes in:
death rates
physiologic density
birth rates
the replacement level
2. What is the one country to have successfully reduced population growth through drastic government intervention?
China
Japan
France
India
3. Which stage of the Demographic Transformation is associated with most of human history?
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 2
Stage 1
4. Population density is an excellent indicator of
quality of life
overpopulation
distribution
overcrowding
5. The number of people per unit of agriculturally productive land is called
arithmetic density
physiologic density
agricultural density
settlement density
6. If country A had a fertility rate of 1.2, 20 percent of its population over age sixty-five, and no immigration policy, what shape would its population pyramid have forty years from now?
columnar shape
pyramid shape
dense
inverted pyramid shape
7. Mormon settlements are typically
dry point villages
row villages
loose, irregular villages
checkerboard villages
8. Children in many less-developed countries are perceived as
costing more than in developed societies because of their high consumption of resources
an asset by the government because of the cheap labor they supply
a form of social security for their parents
an economic burden, but the lack of knowledge of birth control keeps the birth rate high
9. At the present rate of growth (about 1.75 percent), the world's population will double in approximately how many years?
30
60
40
50
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