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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) The human population is approximately
A) 1.5 billion
B) 1.5 million
C) 10 billion
D) 6.9 million
E) 6.9 billion
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2) During which time period did the world's population more than double?
A) 1800–1850 B) 1850–1900 C) 1900–1950 D) 1950–2000 E) 1750–1800
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3) 3) If a population roughly doubles in the course of 50 years, its growth rate would be close to
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A) 1.5 B) 25 C) 5 D) 20 E) 10 of the people living on Earth. 4) 4) is the world's most populous nation, home to
A) The United States; half
B) The United States; one - fifth
C) India; one - third
D) China; one - fifth
E) China; half
5) Which of the following is not one of the world's top five most populous nations?
A) United States
B) India
C) Brazil
D) Vietnam
E) Indonesia
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6) Replacement fertility
A) is below 2 in Africa
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B) is below 2 in Latin America and the Caribbean
C) is a contraceptive technique
D) restores population size after a catastrophic event
E) is equal to 2.1 in stable populations
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7) The 1994 Cairo, Egypt, conference was organized .
A) to address the growing AIDS epidemic in Africa
B) by President Clinton to seek world funding for family-planning initiatives
C) to lower the world's population to preset targets by advocating the use of contraceptives
D) to urge governments to better address social issues such as poverty and disease as potential sources of population problems
E) to reevaluate the effectiveness of China's one - child policy
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8) Life expectancy in parts of southern Africa
A) is on the rise
B) has fallen dramatically since 1990
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C) is starting to fall
D) cannot be determined due to lack of adequate methods for data collection
E) has stabilized due to population control
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9) Declining death rates due to increased food production and improved medical care while birth rates remain high is characteristic of the stage.
A) stabilization
B) pre - industrial
C) post - industrial
D) transitional
E) revolutionary
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10) Areas with the least dense human populations are in
A) temperate areas
B) Mexico
C) agricultural areas
D) the suburbs
E) Europe
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11) Which of the following countries has the highest population growth rate?
A) Pakistan
B) Canada
C) Italy
D) Spain
E) United States
12) Which of the following factors drives TFR down?
A) history and tradition
B) rural lifestyle
C) high infant mortality
D) social and economic security
E) poverty
13) The transitional stage in Frank Notestein's demographic model is initiated by
A) the increased use of contraceptives
B) resource depletion
C) industrialization
D) epidemics
E) government intervention
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14) The richest one - fifth of the world's population possess approximately times the income of the poorest one - fifth, and the richest one - fifth use over 86% of the world's resources.
A) 20 B) 40 C) 10 D) 60 E) 80
15) If global fertility rates remain at 2008 levels, the United Nations predicts that world population will be approximately billion in 2050.
A) 5 B) 11 C) 10 D) 7 E) 4
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16) The annual global growth rate of the human population peaked in the declining ever since.
A) year 2000
B) 1950s
C) 1960s
D) 1990s
E) early 1900s and has been
17) A country with is not expected to grow quickly in the near future.
A) many developing regions
B) a female to male ratio of 1.2 to 1
C) growing industrialization
D) high female literacy
E) a pyramid-shaped age-structure diagram
18) In a country where there are increasingly more households,
A) birth rates should increase
B) population growth rates should increase
C) consumption should increase
D) consumption should decrease
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E) birth rates should remain constant
19) As of 2008, total HIV infections are estimated at nearly
A) 10 B) 1 C) 33
20) Demographic effects of AIDS are most significant because million.
D) 100
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A) AIDS strikes affluent people more than poor people
B) AIDS leaves behind orphans
C) it is not known who is resistant to AIDS
D) AIDS sickens and kills the youngest and most productive members of society
E) it is caused by a virus
21) America's age-structure diagram .
A) reflects unequal distribution of males and females at all age groups
B) reflects a "baby boom" in the early 1980s
C) reflects a population with a high growth rate
D) reflects an aging population
E) looks like a pyramid
22) The world population growth rate is currently close to
A) 5 B) 2.5 C) 10
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D) 20
E) 25
E) 1.2
23) According to the IPAT model, technology that enhances our acquisition of minerals, fossil fuels, timber, and ocean fish .
A) decreases environmental impact
B) decreases sensitivity
C) increases environmental impact
D) increases population
E) increases sensitivity
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24) The Cornucopian view held by many economists suggests that resource depletion due to greater numbers of people .
A) is not a problem because disease will limit population size
B) is not a problem because humans are too intelligent to allow it to be
C) will cause a population crash
D) will lead to natural selection of the most fit individuals
E) is not a problem if new resources can be found to replace depleted ones
25) The "sensitivity factor" in the model used to represent human environmental impact denotes
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A) human sensitivity to what needs to be done to protect the environment
B) the sensitivity of governments to carrying capacity demands
C) the sensitivity of endangered species to human population infringement
D) the sensitivity of an environment to human pressures
E) economic sensitivity to resource use
26) The most accurate terms describing the trend over the past 50 years in resource use for human energy and agricultural systems are .
A) decreasing and sustainable
B) rapidly increasing, moving from unsustainable to sustainable
C) from unsustainable to sustainable
D) steady state - no change
E) increasing and unsustainable
27) Malthus was responsible for _.
A) the book The Population Bomb, which described the disastrous effects of human population growth
B) the idea that population growth would lead to greater industry and prosperity
C) defining the concept of ecosystem services
D) the idea that without social strictures increasing human population would lead to famine and war
E) recognizing the demographic transition effect in developing nations
28) A population which is not growing will have a TFR of
A) 5 or higher
B) zero
C) less than 1.0
D) 1.2
E) 2.1
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29) Not surprisingly, the nation with the highest rate of contraceptive use (90%) is
A) China
B) Australia
C) United States
D) South Africa
E) New Zealand
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30) Helmut Haberl and colleagues have compiled data on as a measure of the human population's growth on earth's natural resources and ecosystem services.
A) industrial pollution
B) consumption of net primary productivity
C) invasive exotic species
D) loss of biodiversity, especially pollinators
E) water quality
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