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Questão 1

Questão
Which of the following statements is FALSE concerning the world's population?
Responda
  • Artificial birth control use is higher in core countries.
  • Population growth rates differ from place to place.
  • A large population of uneducated women usually results in high fertility rates.
  • High fertility rates tend to be in overpopulated areas.
  • Population is evenly distributed over the Earth's surface.

Questão 2

Questão
Which of the following statements about migration is INCORRECT?
Responda
  • Many migrants leave their homes because of war.
  • Environmental problems cause many people to migrate.
  • Nearly all migrants leave their homes because they want to change political parties.
  • Many migrants go to poor countries which cannot accommodate more people.
  • Most migrants in the world leave to pursue a "better life".

Questão 3

Questão
The arithmetic population density for a country or region is determined by dividing the total:
Responda
  • Population by the number of farmers.
  • Area of square miles by five
  • Minority population of the area.
  • Population by the total land area.

Questão 4

Questão
Modern birth control devices
Responda
  • tend to be used in developed countries where people are educated & technology is highly valued.
  • are largely used and most effective in countries where women are generally well-educated.
  • such as pills, injections and patches are cheap for all women everywhere in the world.
  • All of the above.
  • A & B only

Questão 5

Questão
Only a fraction of the Earth's surface is actually livable and farmable land. This land is called:
Responda
  • Arable
  • Alluvial
  • Available
  • Developed
  • Urbanized

Questão 6

Questão
A national policy encouraging its citizens to reduce the total fertility rate is known as
Responda
  • Pro-Natal
  • Neo-Natal
  • Post-Natal
  • Anti-Natal
  • Quasi-Natal

Questão 7

Questão
There were several maps in the text which showed population densities of East Asia. If one was to closely examine the East Asian population clusters, one would discover that the number of people per unit area tends to have a pattern of decline. Use mental map skills and knowledge to indicate which one of the following shows this general pattern of most population to least population in East Asia.
Responda
  • South to North
  • North to South
  • The interior to the coast
  • The coast to the interior
  • Northern coats to southern coast

Questão 8

Questão
If a population increase by uniform amounts during a series of equal periods, the increase is said to be:
Responda
  • Linear
  • Compounded
  • Exponential
  • Miniscule
  • Doubling

Questão 9

Questão
Using your knowledge of natural increase, if a population is growing at an average rate of 2 percent, the doubling time would be approximately _____ years.
Responda
  • 20
  • 25
  • 50
  • 35
  • 10

Questão 10

Questão
Doubling Time (DT) is calculated as
Responda
  • DT = RNI + TRR
  • 70/RNI = DT
  • DT = OP + B - D + I - E
  • 2.1% / DT = 35 years

Questão 11

Questão
Using your knowledge of population density and distribution, which two do the four boxes have the highest distribution of triangles?
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Responda
  • 1,2
  • 3,4
  • 4,1
  • 2,3

Questão 12

Questão
Which of the two of the four boxes have the highest density of triangles?
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Responda
  • 3,4
  • 1,2
  • 4,1
  • 2,3

Questão 13

Questão
In 1798, Thomas Malthus published an essay in which he claimed that population increased at a(n) _______ rate, while the means of subsistence grew at a(n) ________ rate.
Responda
  • Geometric; Arithmetic
  • Cultural ; Ethnic
  • Arithmetic ; Geometric
  • Declining ; Increasing
  • Exponential ; Geometric

Questão 14

Questão
The world's population can best be described as generally concentrated in
Responda
  • East Asia and Southern Europe
  • Northwestern North America and South Asia
  • South Asia and East Asia
  • Europe and Eastern South America
  • Western Africa and Southeast Asia

Questão 15

Questão
Which of the following is the same term as a megalopolis?
Responda
  • Mega city
  • Urbanization
  • Conurbation
  • Metropolis
  • Confluence

Questão 16

Questão
Which of these BEST characterizes population control measures of the one child policy used by the Chinese government from 1980-2000?
Responda
  • Use of the IUDs (coils)
  • Guaranteed jobs
  • late marriage
  • Free healthcare
  • All of the above

Questão 17

Questão
The problem with using arithmetic population density to investigate the population pattern of a country is that such a density figure does not take into consideration:
Responda
  • Annual population increases
  • Internal clustering patterns
  • Annexation of new territory
  • Possible loss of territory
  • External occlusionary forces

Questão 18

Questão
What is the statistic that reports the number of deaths per thousand people in a given year called?
Responda
  • Adjusted Death Rate
  • Crude Death Rate
  • Remittance Rate
  • Actual Growth Rate
  • Age-sex mortality rate

Questão 19

Questão
Which of the following terms describes the phenomenon where a country's population may continue to expand long after fertility rates have been cut dramatically?
Responda
  • high stationary
  • gravity model
  • demographic momentum
  • doubling time
  • exponential growth

Questão 20

Questão
Since WW2, internal migration streams in the US have been moving generally from:
Responda
  • West to East and South to North
  • West to East and North to South
  • Completely Static
  • Easy to west and south to north
  • east to west and north to south

Questão 21

Questão
Population Growth is exceptionally fast from both migration and total fertility in which of the following cities
Responda
  • Lagos
  • London
  • New York City
  • Tokyo
  • Paris

Questão 22

Questão
Population growth from fertility at the country scale in the 21st century will generally
Responda
  • increase in places like western europe
  • decrease in the developing world
  • increase in the developing world
  • hold steady in the developing world
  • decrease in places like eastern Africa

Questão 23

Questão
It is easier to migrate today because:
Responda
  • most countries in the world allow unrestricted immigration
  • many countries need workers and help pay moving costs
  • global religious freedom encourages migration
  • since 2001, no country forbids emigration
  • transportation and information systems are better

Questão 24

Questão
Which technical advance made the sunbelt a more desirable living area as a destination for internal immigrants?
Responda
  • better roads and air transport
  • more cities with better services
  • air conditioning
  • better television advertising
  • none of these

Questão 25

Questão
One of the "laws" of migration as derived by Ravenstein states that:
Responda
  • urban residents are more migratory than inhabitants of rural areas
  • urban residents tend to be less religious than rural folk
  • rural inhabitants hardly ever migrate
  • urban residents are less migratory than inhabitants of rural areas

Questão 26

Questão
In 2004, Egypt's population of 6,319 per square mile is its ____________ density, while Egypt's population of 190 per square mile is its __________ density.
Responda
  • arithmetic; physiologic
  • child mortality ; infant mortality
  • physiologic ; arithmetic
  • immigration ; emigration
  • internal; external

Questão 27

Questão
In the US there is a considerable migration flow of people over 60 years old headed to Florida,Arizona, or another sunbelt locales. These people:
Responda
  • are 'snowbirds' fleeing northern winters
  • like to travel across the country
  • take the new, low-pay industrial jobs
  • are fleeing poor economic conditions
  • are seeking service sector jobs

Questão 28

Questão
During the years of the Transatlantic Slave Trade from 1701-1810, the greatest number of Africans were taken to plantations in the caribbean, Central America and:
Responda
  • southern US
  • Eastern North America
  • western south America
  • Gulf states of the US

Questão 29

Questão
The measure of the number of children born to women of childbearing age in the population is called the:
Responda
  • actual birth rate
  • crude birth rate
  • natural increase rate
  • adjusted birth rate
  • total fertility rate

Questão 30

Questão
Which of these countries does NOT fall into the category of at or near negative growth?
Responda
  • Russia
  • Italy
  • Germany
  • Sweden
  • all of these at near negative growth

Questão 31

Questão
Which of the following scenarios would occur in the third stage of the demographic transition?
Responda
  • Couples ( especially women ) begin to utilize more family planning
  • Someone loses his job as a grave digger
  • Very few grandparents are around to see their grandchildren
  • A mother sobs over the graves of her six children dead of typhoid

Questão 32

Questão
Which of the following countries would you predict has the highest CDR?
Responda
  • Ukraine
  • Japan
  • Indonesia
  • Sierra Leone

Questão 33

Questão
Which of the following is most accurate about push/pull factors?
Responda
  • Push factors are usually incorrectly perceived by local people
  • Pull factors, such as a local civil war, cause people to leave
  • Push factors involve very little local knowledge
  • Pull factors tend to be more vague and overly positive in perception
  • Push factors do not play a major role in migratory movements

Questão 34

Questão
All of the following about a gender ratio of 117:100 are true EXCEPT
Responda
  • 117 is the number of males and 100 is the number of females
  • son preference and female infanticide are prime factors in creating this ratio
  • A large number of females will not be able to find a spouse
  • The ratio above would likely be in India or China
  • The ratio above may indicate lower status of women

Questão 35

Questão
Ravenstein's Gravity Model of migration stated all of these EXCEPT
Responda
  • Net migration is only a fraction of gross migration between two places
  • The majority of migrants move only a short distance.
  • rural residents are far less likely to migrate than their urban counterparts
  • Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults
  • Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big city destinations

Questão 36

Questão
Which of the following is FALSE with regard to current US demographics?
Responda
  • White fertility rates are generally the lowest of any US ethnic group
  • Non-whites are soon projected to the largest minority by 2043
  • African-American fertility rates are higher than white rates.
  • The highest total fertility rates occur in Utah.
  • white fertility rates are generally the highest of any US ethnic group

Questão 37

Questão
The number of deaths per 1000 population between the first and fifth birthdays is known as
Responda
  • Natural increase rate
  • infant mortality rates
  • crude death rate
  • total death rate
  • child mortality rate

Questão 38

Questão
Given a CBR of 23/1000 and a CDR of 8/1000, the RNI expressed as percentage would be
Responda
  • 15%
  • 3.1%
  • 1.5%
  • 31%
  • None of these

Questão 39

Questão
A foreign person who temporarily lives and works in a host country and usually performs low-level jobs ( e.g., agriculture, domestic labor, industrial) in countries with workforce shortages are known as
Responda
  • asylum seekers
  • remittance workers
  • guest workers
  • snowbird workers
  • displaced workers

Questão 40

Questão
African-Americans moved in the Great Migration from the south in the 1910s & 1920s and headed to destinations like Detroit, Chicago, or Cleveland -- only to settle in places like St. Louis and Cincinnati are examples of
Responda
  • Cyclic migration
  • Step migration
  • Forced Migration
  • distance decay
  • intervening opportunity

Questão 41

Questão
The Boserup hypothesis indicated that
Responda
  • local farmers' agricultural production could help keep up with population growth
  • Malthus' claims that population would overtake food production
  • agricultural growth would far outpace population growth
  • Migration patterns center on fertility rates

Questão 42

Questão
A refugee
Responda
  • Is a person who has crossed an international border
  • Has a well-founded fear of being prosecuted because of race, religion, nationality, etc.
  • Is a person labor migrant who has come to country to work
  • Comes to work for the day and returns that same day
  • Shepherds animals according to the seasons

Questão 43

Questão
The "bare branches" refers to
Responda
  • China's dependency ratio issues
  • Large numbers of single adult men china
  • The lack of available wives for many men in China
  • Son preference by Chinese families
  • All of the above

Questão 44

Questão
According to gapminder.org, HIV/AIDS is most prevalent in which of the following areas?
Responda
  • North Africa and Southwest Asia
  • South America and Southern Africa
  • Southern Africa and South Asia
  • The US and Central Africa
  • Australia and Central Asia

Questão 45

Questão
The US shut down immigration after WW1 for all of the following reasons except:
Responda
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Assist African Americans in getting jobs in northern US cities
  • Negative experiences of participating in the worlds first global conflict
  • World-wide Spanish flu pandemic that killed 25,000,000+ people
  • Johnson and Reed act

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