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Questions

1. What does the natural rate of increase (or rate of natural increase) tell us about a given population?

(A) It approximates standards of living in a place by combining economic development indicators with demographic characteristics

(B) It characterizes a country's ability to grow and control territory

(C) Measures population change using total fertility rates and net migration

(D) It is the difference between the crude death rate and the crude birth rate that demonstrates population change (i.e. growth, stable, decline)

2. What characteristics of population DO NOT lead to greater population growth?

(A) High infant mortality rates

(B) High poverty rates

(C) Individual religious beliefs

(D) Low standards of living

3. What potential problems are associated with a negative natural rate of increase in 'developed' countries?

(A) Lack of revenue to fund social programs, such as retirement programs

(B) Shrinking labor pool causes worker shortages

(C) Increased automation of labor

(D) All of the above

4. What potential problems are associated with rapid rates natural rate of increase in developing' countries?

(A) Large-scale migration in search of greater opportunities elsewhere

(B) There are too many people

(C) Social disruption due to high demand for limited opportunities

(D) Both A and C

5. What did the Greek believe about the distribution of populations?

(A) Greece was the center of the universe and the ideal place for settlement

(B) The environment determined where populations could be distributed

(C) Settlements located at the Earth's extremes were suitable for conquest and control

(D) Less-than-desirable people lived in cold places further north

6. Which of the following IS NOT an example of modern ideas about population?

(A) Population size is limited by food supply in a given place

(B) Population growth rates must be limited because rapidly growing populations will cause starvation, war, and disease

(C) Populations will continue increasing because people will always want to have babies

(D) Socioeconomic and political inequalities created food shortages and a large, exploitable labor force

7. What does the 'ecological fallacy' get wrong?

(A) Localized ecological limitations determine population sizes (e.g. the ability to utilize resources enables growing populations)

(B) Assumes homogeneity of data across scales (i.e. the calculated demographic data for Kalamazoo city data is same as data for the entire United States)

(C) Political weak governments do not have the capacity to distribute food aid generated unnecessary food spoilage

(C) None of the above

8. Which of the following IS NOT a problem with demographic data, such as crude death rate or crude birth rate?

(A) High rates of infant mortality indicate economic underdevelopment

(B) Aggregated data is decontextualized and loses the specificity of individual experiences

(C) Crude death rates do not account for age differences in deaths

(D) The crude birth rate does not indicate how many children the average woman gives birth to during her childbearing years (total fertility rate)

9. Which of the following is an example of a measurement that attempts to quantify the impacts of populations?

(A) Agricultural density explains the number of farmers per unit area of arable land.

(B) Arithmetic density measures the population of a country divided by its total land area.

(C) Carrying capacity quantifies the maximum population size that the environment can sustain indefinitely.

(D) Physiological density examines the number of people per unit area of arable land.

(E) All of the above

10. What is the difference between morbidity and mortality?

(A) Morbidity quantifies how sick a place is and mortality measures the number of people dying

(B) Mortality measures deaths per 1,000 and mortality quantifies the cause of death

(C) Morbidity demonstrates the level of technological development of a country

(D) Both A and B