Human Populations Review

Germany is experiencing negative growth because

• birth rates are equal to death rates.
• most individuals are found in age groups that are past reproductive age
• there is an even spread of individuals in all age groups.

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Percentage of members of a group who are likely to survive to a given age

• Survivorship
• Crude birth rate
• Emigration
• Infant moratlity

Growth rate is dependent on population size.

• True
• False

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How might we reduce fertility rates in the world?

• Improve women's status and educational opportunities.
• Increase the life expectancy of men.
• Increase the number of housewives.
• Decrease literacy rates.

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

• Emigrant
• Deviant
• Immigrant
• Donut

Which of the following best describes a population?

• members of the same species living in the same place at the same time
• all the red birds in an area
• all types of organisms living in the same place
• all members of the same species

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

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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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Which country could the graph on the left represent?

• China

• Germany

• India

• Bangladesh

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