| 1. | The United States is the world's third largest country, but has only what percentage of the world's population? | |
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| a) | 7.9% |
| b) | 12.1% |
| c) | 4.5% |
| d) | 19.2% |
| e) | 14.5% |
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| 2. | What is the natural increase for a country if it has a birth rate of 14 and a death rate of 10. | |
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| a) | 4.0 |
| b) | .04 |
| c) | .4 |
| d) | .5 |
| e) | .6 |
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| 3. | Which one of the following is not one of the world's four largest population concentrations: | |
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| a) | South Asia |
| b) | Europe |
| c) | Eastern Africa |
| d) | Eastern North America |
| e) | East Asia |
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| 4. | The Malthusian Theory, attributed to Thomas Malthus, states that: | |
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| a) | population will continue to grow unchecked |
| b) | population grows in a linear fashion and would exceed food production |
| c) | food supply would keep pace with population growth |
| d) | population increases in a exponential manner while food supply can only increase in a linear, or straight line fashion |
| e) | all of the above. |
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| 5. | Survivorship is defined as: | |
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| a) | when one spouse outlives the other |
| b) | the amount of a country's population remaining after a great war |
| c) | the length of life |
| d) | when children live longerthat two years of age |
| e) | none of the above |
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| 6. | What is the average infant mortality rate in developed countries/Less developed countries? | |
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| a) | 8/1000 live births, 63/1000 live births |
| b) | 63/1000 live births, 8/1000 live births |
| c) | 80/1000 live births, 630/1000 live births |
| d) | 800/1000 live births, 63/1000 live births |
| e) | 8/1000 live births, 6.3/1000 births |
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| 7. | What percentage of the world's population is located in China if its current population is an estimated 1.3 billion and the world's total population is 6.067 billion? | |
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| a) | 21% |
| b) | 2.1% |
| c) | 2.4% |
| d) | 24% |
| e) | 24.1% |
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| 8. | Population growth is highest in countries that: | |
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| a) | are industrialized |
| b) | are resource rich |
| c) | are in the early and late expanding stages of the demographic transition |
| d) | are extremely poor with both high birth and death rates |
| e) | all of the above. |
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| 9. | Which state in the demographic transition is characterized by high, unchanging birth rates combined with decreasing death rates? | |
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| a) | high stationary |
| b) | low stationary |
| c) | early expanding |
| d) | late expanding |
| e) | none of the above. |
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| 10. | The population age-sex structure of an area can be represented with: | |
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| a) | the ZPG |
| b) | a population pyramid |
| c) | the population potential |
| d) | the population dynamic |
| e) | none of the above. |
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