True Flase Flashcards
1
Q
- The term demography has Greek linguistic roots meaning “people” and “study of.”
A
TRUE
2
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- Between 1910 and 2010 the world’s population increased from 2 to 7 billion.
A
TRUE
3
Q
- At the beginning of the twentieth century, the percent of the U.S. population that was foreign born was considerably less than it was at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
A
TRUE
4
Q
- The fact that demography is connected to nearly everything means that demography determines
nearly everything.
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FALSE
5
Q
- All of the future growth in the world is expected to show up in cities.
A
TRUE
6
Q
- A youth bulge inevitably leads to conflict in human populations.
A
FALSE
7
Q
- Globalization has been spurred on by the global decline in death rates after World War II.
A
TRUE
8
Q
- The crime rate is associated with the age structure because young men are most apt to commit crimes.
A
TRUE
9
Q
- Life insurance companies and pension funds both make more money the longer that their
customers live.
A
FALSE
10
Q
- The oppression of women in a society will likely be associated with an unfavorable demographic profile for that country
A
TRUE
11
Q
- The Agricultural Revolution beginning 10,000 years ago led to a growth in population.
A
TRUE
12
Q
- The United Nations projects that the population of the world will double again over the next 40
years.
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FASLE
13
Q
- Declining mortality, not rising fertility, is the cause of the “population explosion.”
A
TRUE
14
Q
- The least developed countries in the world are growing faster than the less developed or more
developed nations.
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FALSE
15
Q
- The majority of people ever born are alive at this moment.
A
FALSE
16
Q
- Nearly 4 in 10 humans live either in China or on the Indian subcontinent.
A
TRUE
17
Q
- India’s demography is so diverse that some of its southern states actually have fertility levels
that are below replacement
A
TRUE
18
Q
- The drop in fertility in China is largely a result of its one-child policy.
A
FALSE
19
Q
- China may be the first country in demographic history to grow old before it grows rich.
A
TRUE
20
Q
- Fertility is so low in Japan that it seems to have its own “one-child policy.”
A
TRUE
21
Q
- Growth rates in the Roman Empire were lower than they might have been because of tolerance
for polygamy, divorce, abortion, and infanticide
A
TRUE
22
Q
- The doctrine of mercantilism maintained that the more people a nation had, the more it could
produce, and thus the wealthier it would be.
A
TRUE
23
Q
- It is likely that if the French Revolution had not occurred, Malthus’s book on population would
never have been published
A
TRUE
24
Q
- Malthus was not a firm believer in human progress
A
TRUE
25
Q
- Neo-Malthusians are the people who influenced Darwin’s ideas about evolution.
A
FALSE
26
Q
- Malthus and Marx agreed on the causes of population growth, but not on the consequences.
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TRUE
27
Q
- Marx’s denial of the potential for population problems in a socialist society was proven correct
by what later happened in Russia and China.
A
TRUE
28
Q
- Demographic transition theory relates the different timing in mortality and fertility declines to
the interstitial growth in population.
A
TRUE
29
Q
- Two key concepts added during the reformulation of the demographic transition theory were
secularization and diffusion.
A
FALSE
30
Q
- A key element in the Easterlin hypothesis is that the relative size of cohorts can influence the
way in which people and societies change over time.
A
TRUE
31
Q
- The Domesday Book in England represents the first modern census.
A
FALSE
32
Q
- Germany has always had a population register rather than conducting a census.
A
FALSE
33
Q
- A census has been taken every 10 years in the United States since 1790.
A
TRUE
34
Q
- The most important source of potential error in most censuses is content error.
A
TRUE
35
Q
- The plague disappeared from Europe at about the time that the Industrial Revolution was getting
started.
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TRUE
36
Q
- The available evidence suggests that the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 actually erupted
first in the West African country of Sierra Leone.
A
TRUE
37
Q
- Medical advances were the main reason for the decline of mortality in Europe and the United
States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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FALSE
38
Q
- Life expectancy in the United States is now twice what it was 150 years ago.
A
TRUE
39
Q
- Life expectancy in Russia is now significantly higher than it was 30 years ago.
A
FALSE
40
Q
- Life expectancy and life span both refer to the highest age to which humans can expect to live.
A
FALSE
41
Q
- The finding that your initials might somehow affect your life expectancy offers evidence of
possible psychological influences on mortality.
A
TRUE
42
Q
- Given the current world averages, an infant mortality rate of 50 would be considered low.
A
FALSE
43
Q
- In human and many non-human animal populations, females have a biological survival
advantage over men.
A
TRUE
44
Q
- The crude death rate is called “crude” because it does not take into account the age and sex
distribution of the population.
A
TRUE
45
Q
- Hutterite women in the United States in the 1930s averaged 11 live births per woman.
A
TRUE
46
Q
- The opportunity costs of children change over time as social circumstances change.
A
TRUE
47
Q
- The diffusion of ideas such as desired family size is enhanced by the existence of rigidly defined
social strata.
A
FALSE
48
Q
- Before there was birth control, there was child control.
A
TRUE
49
Q
- The later a woman marries, the more children she is likely to have.
A
FALSE
50
Q
- Abortion rates tend to be highest when other methods of contraception are not readily available
to women.
A
TRUE
51
Q
- The United Kingdom is one of the few European countries in which fertility has recently risen
above replacement level.
A
FALSE
