Human Population Test Review

Professionals who study and make predictions about human populations are called

• stenographers

• demographers

• geologists

• scientists

Which factors contributes most to the exponential growth of the human population?

• more food, better hygiene

• higher fertility rates

• higher birth rates

• low population growth

A population pyramid is created by

• studying a group of people and nothing when each member dies

• graphing the distribution of ages in a population at specific time

• calculating the number of children a woman gives birth to in her lifetime

• graphing the distribution of women population and fertility rates

Human population growth was most rapid during which period of human history

• ice ages

• stone ages

• modern ages

• agricultural ages

When birth rates fall, Earth's population will

• stablize

• decrease

• increase

• all of the above

Growth rates for different parts of the world vary depending on the level of development of the region. Which region is experiencing the biggest increase in population?

• Asia

• Europe

• North America

• Australia

Which of the following is NOT a strategy that could slow population growth?

• public advertising

• limiting education for women

• legal punishments

• limiting birth control

Countries that have entered the third stage of demographic transition are most characterized by

• weak or developing economices

• death rates that far exceed birth rates

• social conditions that favor smaller families

• social conditions that favor larger families

What would be reason that wood is considered a limited resource in many developing countries?

• wood is used in place of money to buy food

• fuelwood allows people to purify their water by boiling it

• people cut down trees faster than they can grow

• people have found other resources to use other than wood in developing countries

Countries with high growth rates usually have an age structure that has

• more younger people than older people

• an equal amount of young people and old people

• an even distribution over all ages

• more older people than younger people