Human Population Growth and Land Use: Mastery Test

If birth rates fall below the replacement level, then a country is in which stage of demographic transition?

• urbanization/industrialization

• mature industrial

• postindustrial

• pre-modern

A country was experiencing high birth rates because of widespread illiteracy. At the same time an epidemic broke out in this country, killing many people. After many years, the death rate started declining due to agricultural and public health systems. There was more youth population in the country. The country is in which stage of demographic transition?

• pre-modern

• urbanization

• mature industrial

• Postindustrial

Ken’s community is completely dependent on agriculture for their income. They cultivate and breed domestic species for their food. Ken lives in which society?

• hunter-gatherer

• modern

• primitive

• agrarian

Which rate indicates the number of children that would be born per woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years?

• birth rate

• mortality rate

• fertility rate

• death rate

What is the modification of the Earth’s surface due to activities such as construction and agriculture known as?

Land ________ includes human activities such as agriculture and construction.

• cover

• use

• change

The modification of the Earth’s surface due to these activities is known as ________.

• LULC

• LUC

• LULCC

The increasing demand for meat in a state led to intensive farming of livestock. Intensive livestock farming increased the concentration of methane in the atmosphere and caused severe environmental problems.

Methane is which type of gas and what type of environmental problem will methane cause?

Methane is a(n) ______________ gas.

• acidic

• liquid

• greenhouse

Excess of methane in the atmosphere will lead to ________________.

• population growth

• global warming

• depletion of resources

Peter lives in a beautiful region. Peter and other residents of his region use water from the river that flows through their region. Recently, Mark Industries decided to set up their chemical plant near that river. Peter realized that the waste from the chemical plant would pollute the river. He decided to seek a legal ordinance that would restrict the use of land near that river for specific use only.

Which type of zoning will help Peter and his region?

(a)   zoning will help Peter and his region.

According to which theory do the collective actions of different human beings sometimes cause situations that are threatening to the environment?

According to the _______ __ ___ ______ theory, collective actions of different human beings sometimes cause situations that are threatening to the environment.

(a)