Pop. Dynamics

Question 1

Define menarche

Answer 1

A women’s first menstrual cycle

Question 2

Define fertility

Answer 2

Refers to actual reproduction. A women is fertile if she has born or is bearing off spring

Question 3

Define fecundity

Answer 3

Denotes the ability to reproduce. Once a girl reaches a menarche, she is fecund

Question 4

Define weaning

Answer 4

The removal of Breast milk from an infant or young child’s diet

Question 5

Define prolactin

Answer 5

Pituitary hormone that regulates the production of progesterone levels

Question 6

Define replacement level

Answer 6

A population term referring to the number of births required to maintain a stable population

Question 7

Surrogate mothers

Answer 7

Substitute or replacement

Lends her uterus to another couple

Question 8

Two types of surrogacy:

Answer 8

Surrogate provides egg that is insemenated artificially or the infertile women provides egg that is transferred to surrogates uterus

Question 9

The term separation individuation process

Answer 9

By peter blos in 1967

Explains the gradual pulling away of teens from their parents and teens develop a network of significant other

Question 10

Fran Baum’s voluntary childlessness in 1994

Answer 10

Hedonists- want to maintain a certain standard of living (money wise)
Idealistic- don’t want to bring a child into a world they feel is unsuitable
Practical- practical reasons like not wanting to pass on genetic defect
Emotional- women who do not have an emotion draw to babies or kids

Question 11

DMT phases:

Answer 11

Phase 1- birth rate is high and stable, death rate fluctuates (rural populations)
Phase 2- birth rate remains high, death rate declines rapidly (Nigeria)
Phase 3: birth rate is declining rapidly and death rate remains low (China)
Phase 4: birth and death rates are low and stable birth rate slightly ahead (Canada)
Phase 5: a slowly rising death rate and stable or slightly declining birth rate (European countries)

Question 12

Two alternative reproduction technologies and methods

Answer 12

I️VI-intrauterine insemination where women are given drugs to cause her to produce more than one egg per cycle, when she ovulates she is inseminated in uterus through catheter with a selection of mans best sperm
AID-artificial insemination by donor where sperm is provided by donor to test and accepted if it has a high sperm count and good motility then is frozen and loaded into plastic straws

Question 13

Factors that affect infertility

Answer 13

Rapid spread of STD ex clamydia blocks Fallopian tubes
Estrogen in water supplies declines sperm counts in developed countries
And women not giving birth till thirties, women’s fertility decreases as she ages and fewer reproductive years

Question 14

What is CPP

Answer 14

Canadian pension plan

Question 15

In vitro definition

Answer 15

performed or taking place in a test tube, culture dish, or elsewhere outside a living organism.

Question 16

Effects of falling birth rates

Answer 16

Fewer people to pay for increasing pension and healthcare needs of older population

Question 17

What percentages of worlds population is in developing world

Answer 17

95

Question 18

Benefits of breast milk

Answer 18

Perfectly matched diets to nutritional needs and immunized infants against diseases and results in improved digestion and optimal growth

Question 19

Statistics on breast feeding

Answer 19

70 initiate it, 40 stop by three months (had to return to work 6months)

Question 20

Menarche for pre-industrial vs developed

Answer 20

Preindustrial had much less protein in diets, lots of physical stress
Developed is high fat and protein diet with little physical stress therefor early menarche