Human Pops Test Corrections

Choose the vocabulary term or phrase that is best described by the following statement.

Movement of people into cities from rural areas

• Rural migration

• Urbanization

• Demography

• Urban legend

An agriculture based economy and very high natural rate of increase are characteristics of

• a European country.

• a developing country.

• an Asian country.

• a developed country.

Which factors contributed most to exponential human population growth?

• mor food, better hygiene

• higher birth rates, lower fertility rates

• increased political power, prohibition

• increased immigration, more foreign commerce

Choose the vocabulary term or phrase that is best described by the following statement.

The average number of children each woman in a country has to have to maintain the population size.

• Death rate

• Birth rate

• Fertility rate

• Replacement level

Educating women worldwide has lowered birth rates partly because

• educated women bear many children to ensure some survive.

• educated women contribute less to their family income.

• educated women may learn family planning techniques.

• All of the above

If over a long period of time each pair of adults in a population had only two offspring and the offspring lived to reproduce, the population would

• grow.

• shring.

• remain the same.

• disperse randomly.

Choose the terms that best fill in the blanks in the following statement.

Japan's population is _____ because women in the country are _____.

• increasing, having several children

• decreasing, more focused on having a career instead of a family.

• increasing, living much longer than men.

• decreasing, becoming more and more infertile.

A country that relies on an industrial economy is usually

• a developed country.

• a developing country.

• found in sub-saharan Africa.

• very poor.

If a country's fertility rate is above replacement level, what would you expect to happen to the population?

• Population size would increase

• Population size would decrease

• Population size would stay the same

• Population size would increase at first, then decrease

Choose the vocabulary term or phrase that is best described by the following statement.

A person who leaves their home country

• Demographics

• Emigrant

• Immigrant

• Population