Population Quiz 2

antinatalist policies

• Measures to discourage or limit population growth
• Policies to promote large families
• Programs to encourage population growth
• Measures to increase birth rates

neo-malthusians

• Modern perspective on overpopulation and resource scarcity
• Post-modern art movement
• Medieval political philosophy
• Ancient agricultural techniques

pronatalist polices

• Government policies that limit the number of children a family can have
• Government policies that encourage or incentivize people to have more children
• Policies that promote adoption instead of having biological children
• Government policies that discourage people from having children

Total fertiality rate (TFR)

• Average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime
• Number of children a man is expected to have in his lifetime
• Total number of children born in a country
• Average age at which women have their first child

The point in which an area cannot hold any more individuals in an area is called its what?

• carrying capacity
• capital capacity
• carrying capability
• limiting point

If the number of births is greater than 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 don't matter

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 don't matter

What type of growth model is this?

• exponential growth model
• logistic growth model
• Type I curve
• Type III curve

What is an example of an antinatal policy?

• Japan's policy on having at least one child

• India's two-child policy
• China's one-child policy
• USA's unlimited child policy

How is the Mathusian theory different from the Boserup theory?

• The malthusian theory says that population growth is exponential and food supply is not so we will run out eventually, but the boserup theory says that humans will figure out a way so that everyone will be fed

• The malthusian theory says that population growth is linear and food supply is not so we will never run out, but the boserup theory says that people won't have enough food in the future because of shortages

• The malthusian theory says that population growth and food supply is exponential meaning that there will be a surplus in the future and begin to waste food, but the boserup theory says that there is not enough food to continue passed humanity after the year 3000

• The malthusian theory says that humans will figure out a way to feed everyone, but the boserup theory says that food supply is linear and population growth is exponential, meaning we will run out eventually