Chapter 8: Human Population Flashcards
Test Study
What event in the mid-1700s significantly changed human population growth?
A. Industrial Revolution
B. development of agriculture
C. bubonic plague
D. human settlement began
A. Industrial Revolution
Which combination of factors will produce the highest rate of population growth?
A. high life expectancy and high infant mortality
B. low life expectancy and low infant mortality
C. low life expectancy and high infant mortality
D. high life expectancy and low infant mortality
D. high life expectancy and low infant mortality
What is a population’s total fertility rate?
A. the number of births needed to keep a nation’s population stable
B. the average number of children a male member of a population has each year
C. the average number of children a female member of the population has during her lifetime
D. the total number of babies born in a population each generation
C. the average number of children a female member of the population has during her lifetime
Which is the proper sequence of steps in the demographic transition model?
A. pre-industrial, industrial, post-industrial, transitional
B. pre-industrial, transitional, industrial, post-industrial
C. transitional, pre-industrial, industrial, post-industrial
D. post-industrial, transitional, industrial, pre-industrial
B. pre-industrial, transitional, industrial, post-industrial
What happens during the transitional stage of the demographic transition?
A. Birthrates begin to fall.
B. Death rates begin to fall.
C. Birthrates increase.
D. Death rates increase.
B. Death rates begin to fall.
Which of the following countries has yet to go through the demographic transition?
A. Japan
B. United States
C. India
D. Germany
C. India
In which of the following countries would individuals have the largest ecological footprints?
A. India
B. China
C. Canada
D. Thailand
C. Canada
The richest one fifth of the world’s people uses what percent of the world’s resources?
A. 5
B. 20
C. 43
D. 86
D. 86
Since the 1960s, the human population growth rate has increased.
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In the time it took you to read this sentence, people were born and people died, but it is likely that fewer people were born than died.
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A population with many young people compared to older people will likely experience slow population growth as the young people mature and have children.
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As a naturally occurring phenomenon, fewer males are born around the world than females.
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The population growth of developing nations as a whole surpasses population growth in developed nations.
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In what year did the human population reach 1 billion people?
A. 300
B. 1200
C. 1800
D. 2000
C. 1800
In recent years, the human population has
A. increased exponentially.
B. decreased exponentially.
C. decreased slowly.
D. increased slowly.
A. increased exponentially.
The average number of years an individual is predicted to live is called
A. carrying capacity.
B. life expectancy.
C. growth rate.
D. demography.
B. life expectancy.
The number of organisms that an environment can support is called the
A. life expectancy.
B. demography.
C. carrying capacity.
D. growth rate.
C. carrying capacity.
Which area would have the lowest population density?
A. seacoast in Europe
B. river in China
C. tundra in Russia
D. suburb in the U.S.A.
C. tundra in Russia
The amount of people living in a given area is described as population
A. mortality.
B. expectancy.
C. rate.
D. density.
D. density.
Which factor(s) help increase total fertility rates?
A. needing extra help on farms
B. government programs supporting older adults
C. more children surviving childhood
D. one-child policies
A. needing extra help on farms
What does the replacement fertility rate depend on the most?
A. population growth
B. demography
C. total fertility rate
D. death rate
D. death rate
What can be inferred about an area that has an age structure diagram with a pyramid shape?
A. The population is likely to decrease in the future.
B. There is a high proportion of older people to younger people.
C. There is a high population growth rate.
D. There is a low population growth rate.
C. There is a high population growth rate.
What could be inferred about an area that has an age structure diagram with a “barrel” shape (thicker in the middle, narrower on the top and bottom)?
A. There is low population growth.
B. The population is likely to increase in the future.
C. There is a high proportion of young people to older people.
D. There is high population growth.
A. There is low population growth.
The number of males compared to females in a population is the
A. age structure.
B. sex ratio.
C. total fertility rate.
D. demography.
B. sex ratio.
The model used to explain the reason that some industrialized nations have experienced a large change in birthrates and death rates is called the
A. demographic transition model.
B. replacement fertility model.
C. Industrial Revolution model.
D. life expectancy model.
A. demographic transition model.
Which stage of the demographic transition is characterized by conditions that have defined most of human history?
A. industrial
B. pre-industrial
C. post-industrial
D. transitional
B. pre-industrial
Which stage of the demographic transition has the highest level of population growth?
A. industrial
B. transitional
C. pre-industrial
D. post-industrial
B. transitional
Which of the following regions is developed?
A. China
B. Mexico
C. Australia
D. eastern Europe
C. Australia
The Industrial Revolution happened about 200 to 300 years ago.
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A population with fewer younger people than older people will likely decrease in the future.
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More people live in developing nations than live in developed nations.
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Humans have a minor impact on their environment.
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Individuals from affluent societies tend to have smaller ecological footprints than people from poor societies.
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