Human Population Chapter 9 Quiz

What is population growth rate?

• The rate at which the population of a particular area decreases over a specific period of time.

• The rate at which the population of a particular area remains constant over a specific period of time.

• The number of people in a particular area at a given point in time.

• The rate at which the population of a particular area grows over a specific period of time.

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What are population pyramids?

• Graphical representations of birth rates and death rates

• Graphical representations of population growth over time

• Graphical representations of age structure and distribution in a population

• Graphical representations of population density

What factors contribute to population growth rate?

• Education level, income, and employment rate

• Climate change, natural disasters, and disease outbreaks

• Government policies, cultural practices, and technological advancements

• Birth rate, death rate, immigration, and emigration

Why has the world population dramatically increased?

• Better medicine
• Better sanitation
• Better technology
• All of the above

Demography is the scientific study of

• parasitism and disease.
• modernized countries.
• human populations.
• none of these

If the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

• It will increase.
• It will decrease.
• It will stay the same.
• It will fluctuate.

What are two ways populations decrease?

• birth & migration

• immigration & death

• death & emigration

• birth & immigration

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Emigration is

• the movement out of an area
• the movement into an area
• movement in and out of an area
• migration

Immigration is

• the movement into an area
• The movement out of an area
• The migration process
• exponential graph

What are survivorship curves?

• curves that describe the number of survivors over time

• curves that tell us what the limiting factors are

• curve that tells us about the carrying capacity

• a curve

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