Final Exam Review Part 1 (2022) - Units 5, 6, & 7

Which factor contributed most to the exponential growth of the human population?

• more food, better hygiene
• higher birth rate
• higher fertility rate
• increased immigration

A population pyramid is created by

• graphing the distribution of ages in a population at a specific time
• studying a group of people and noting when each member dies
• calculating the number of children a woman gives birth to in her lifetime
• estimating the demand for services within a community

Educating women worldwide has lowered birthrates partly because

• educated women may learn family planning techniques
• educated women need to bear many children to ensure that some will survive
• educated women contribute less to their family income
• all of these

Which of the following makes it difficult to reduce population growth?

• Many people have low literacy and limited access to healthcare
• High literacy rates results in women wanting to have more children
• Population sizes will not decline until some people start having to do without food and other necessities of life
• Many people live in cities, where large families are an advantage

Which of the following is true of human demographic trends?

• Death rates rise in the third stage of the demographic transition
• In pre-industrial societies, birth rates are low, and the population grows rapidly
• When the average number of children born to each woman falls, the total population always increases
• When birth rates and death rates are both high, the population grows slowly, if at all

Countries with high growth rates usually have an age structure that has

• more younger people than older people
• more older people than young people
• an even distribution over all ages
• more middle-aged people than younger people

Scientists predict population sizes by using

• age structure, survivorship, fertility rate, and migration
• survivorship, migration, life expectancy, and replacement structure
• age structure, fertility rate, and migration
• replacement rate, fertility rate, age rates, and survivorship

Which of the following would not cause population to decrease in a region?

• increased immigration
• increased emigration
• decreased fertility rates
• decreased survivorship

Less-developed countries suffer more from rapid population growth because they are less likely to have the ___ to support the population

• infrastructure
• fertility rates
• cultural values
• family-planning methods

During the 1800's, we saw exponential growth in the human population due to

• all of these
• The Industrial Revolution
• The Scientific Revolution
• A combination of high birth rates and lower death rates