Human Populations

What is a population’s total fertility rate?

• the number of births needed to keep a nation’s population stable

• the average number of children a male member of a population has each year

• the average number of children a female member of the population has during her lifetime

• the total number of babies born in a population each generation

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What event in the mid-1700s significantly changed human population growth?

• human settlement

• Industrial Revolution

• development of agriculture

• Bubonic plague

Which combination of factors will produce the highest rate of population growth?

• high birth and death rates

• low birth and death rates

• high birth and low death rates

• low birth and high death rates

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These graphs above are called

• life expectancy diagrams

• infant mortality diagrams

• demographic diagrams

• age structure diagrams

Which graph would most likely represent a Developing country

• Left graph

• Right Graph

What describes human world population in recent times?

• Still increasing exponentially with no decrease in rate

• Still increasing exponentially with slight decrease in rate

• Still increasing exponentially with huge decrease in rate

What can be inferred about an area that has an age structure diagram with a pyramid shape?

• There will be a huge decrease in population in the future.

• Population will neither increase nor decrease in the future.

• There will be a huge increase in population in the future.

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What can be inferred about an area that has an age structure diagram with a narrow base?

• There will be a decline in population in the future.

• Population will neither increase nor decrease in the future.

• There will be an increase in population in the future.

The average number of years an individual is predicted to live is called

• life expectancy

• carrying capacity

• growth rate

• demography

Which correctly describes the term demographic transition?

• The transition from low birth rates and death rates to high birth rates and death rates as a country develops.

• The transition from high birth rates and death rates to low birth rates and death rates as a country develops.

• The transition from high birth rates to low death rates as a country develops.

• The transition from low birth rates to high death rates as a country develops.