Thomas Malthus

The theorem states that...

• Human pop. grows arithmitcally, while food production grows exponentially
• Human pop. grows exponentially, while food production grows arithmitically
• There will be no food in 5 years
• Food production is not beneficial

What was his book called?

• An essay of my theory
• An essay on food production
• An essay on the world
• An essay on the principals of population

Malthus thought the bigger population, the better the community

• False
• True

Why was his theory a failure?

• He didn't think about it enough
• He failed to look at technological advances
• He didn't have the materials to continue his studies
• He couldn't prove it

In comparing Malthus's theory to actual world food production and population growth during the past half-century, the principal difference is that:

• actual food production has been much higher than Malthus predicted.
• actual population growth has been much higher than Malthus predicted.
• Malthus's theory predicted much higher population growth than has actually occurred.
• population increased geometrically while food production increased arithmetically.

Carrying capacity is  function of:

• technology.
• natural resources.
• resource allocation.
• limiting factors.

What is the movement of people from farms to cities?

• Utilitarianism
• Urbanization
• Proletariat
• Enclosure Movement

According to Thomas Malthus _______ increases the death rate.

• Negative checks 
• Positive checks
• Birth rate
• Life expectancy

Thomas Malthus suggested that capitalism was the only economic system that could function.

• True
• False

Disease, war, and disaster are all negative checks on population.

• True 
• False