Human Populations Review

If a country has a high literacy rate among females, they should have a lower fertility rate.

• True

• False

The _________ is the average number of children each parent must have in order to replace themselves in the population

• replacement level

• fertility rate

• migration level

• life expectancy

An example of a DEVELOPED country:

• Egypt

• America

• Mexico

• Brazil

An example of a DEVELOPING country:

• Canada

• America

• Mexico

• England

Human population rates have skyrocketed recently mostly due to:

• the bubonic plague

• better hygiene (health care) and food

• the discovery of electricity

• improved efficiency of fuel use

Scientists use all of the following EXCEPT ________ to predict population size

• survivorship

• fertility rate

• migration

• industrialization

A population pyramid is grouped by which two factors?

• age, race

• race, gender

• age, gender

• race, literacy rate

The younger a woman begins having children, the higher her ______ will be.

• literacy rate

• population rate

• fertility rate

• death rate

The _______ is the number of people in a population that can read and write

• literacy rate

• population rate

• fertility rate

• death rate

the land that is available for growing food is called:

• Demography

• Arable land

• Urban sprawl

• Desert land