1.4 Management of natural increase

Question 1

Population policy

Answer 1

When a government has a stated aim on an aspect of its population and it undertakes measure to achieve that aim

Question 2

Pro-natalist policy

Answer 2

Population policy that aims to encourage more births through the use of incentives.

Question 3

Anti-natalist policy

Answer 3

Population policy designed to limit fertility through the use of both incentives and deterrents.

Question 4

Family planning programme

Answer 4

Programme to regulate the number and spacing of children in a family. Through the practice of methods of birth control.

Question 5

Sterilisation

Answer 5

Preventing pregnancy by cutting or blocking tubes from a woman’s ovaries or cutting the tubes that carry sperm in a man.

Question 6

Abortion

Answer 6

Termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a foetus or embryo, causing its death.

Question 7

Centrally planned economy

Answer 7

Economic system in which the state or worker’s councils manage all aspects of the economy.

Question 8

Civil liberties

Answer 8

Rights and freedoms that protect an individual from the state.

Question 9

Selective abortion

Answer 9

Performed because of the gender of the foetus or when an undesirable trait is detected.

Question 10

Social norms

Answer 10

Rules for how people should act in a given group or society.