ESS Topic 3 Review

Which of the following best describes the growth of each country? from left to right.

• declining, stable, expanding
• stable, declining, expanding
• expanding, declining, stable
• expanding, stable, declining

Calculate crude birth rate is crude death rate is 10 and natural increase rate is 0.3

• 1.3
• 13
• 130
• none of these

Calculate crude death rate if crude birth rate is 45 and natural increase rate 2.4

• 2.1
• 21
• 210
• none of these

Calculate natural increase rate if crude birth rate is 11 and crude death rate is 16

• -5
• 5
• -0.5
• 0.5

Does the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd diagram represent a country with high births and high deaths?

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd

What is the doubling time for a population with an growth rate of 3%?

• 70.0
• 35.0
• 23.3
• 12.5

Which of the following does not describe a a stable or falling human population?

• Increase in number of women with higher education
• Increase in average income
• Increase in average age of marriage
• Increase in birth rates

Fertility rate is 

• the total # of births minus the total # of deaths in a country
• the # of births/1000 individuals in a population per year
• the # of births/1000 women of child bearing age per year
• the average # of children a woman has in her lifetime

Which of the following contains the greatest proportion of the world's fresh water?

• organisms
• the atmosphere
• ice-caps and glaciers
• streams, rivers, and lakes

Which stage of demographic transition would you expect Kenya and Sweden to have reached?

• Kenya - 1, Sweden 1
• Kenya - 2, Sweden - 4
• Kenya - 4, Sweden - 2
• Kenya - 3, Sweden - 3