DL: Unit 2 vocabulary quiz

The average number of children a woman can have throughout her childbearing years - 15 to 49 is known as:

• The Total Fertility Rate

• The Dependency Ratio

• The Crude Birth Rate

• None of these answers

Access to healthcare, affordable food, and other factors that improve living conditions within a country will improve:

• Expansive Population Policies

• Antinatalist Policies

• Life Exectancy

• Physiological Density

Civil war, famine, a bad economy, corrupt political officials, and opression of social groups such as religious groups are:

• push factors

• pull factors

• natural decrease factors

• natural increase factors

What is the main difference between an endemic, pandemic, and epidemic.

• The severity of the virus/ bacteria

• The rate at which a virus/ bacteria spread

• They are the same term - it just depends on where you are in the world.

• The size of the area spread over local, regional, or global scales

The government of the United States as an incentive for families to have children - they will give them a tax deduction within their income tax. This means families will be taxed less for having children. This is an example of:

• Expansive population policy

• Restrictive population policy

• An IDP

• Doubling-Time Formula

The problem with ________________ is that you will make young working population smaller than the older generation who are retiring and wanting to collect pensions.

• Restricitve Population Policies

• Expansive Population Policies

• An IDP

• None of these are the answer.

Malthusian theory tries to explain that the world's population is increasing more rapidly than it can feed the rest of the world.

• True

• False

Malthusian Theory is an outdated concept. As Malthus did not account for the development of; conctraceptives, commercial farming, and the desire in MDCs for smaller families.

• True

• False

Which of the following is the best concept to identify and anlyze migration patterns:

• Ravenstein's Laws of Migration

• Chain Migrations

• Step by Step Migrations

• Guest-Worker Migrations

A place that has the insufficient sanitation, infrastructure, and economic systems to sustain a population can be said that they have a low _____________________

• Arithmitic Density

• Physiological Density

• Carrying Capacity

• None of these are the answer