Unit 6 Lessons 1-4 Quiz

What is Demography?

• The study of statistical information such as life expectancy, the fertility rate, and the literacy rate.

• The study of economic information such as life expectancy, the fertility rate, and the literacy rate.

• The study of social information such as life expectancy, the fertility rate, and the literacy rate.

• The study of governmental information such as life expectancy, the fertility rate, and the literacy rate.

TRUE/FALSE: Fertility rate is the number of years a person is expected to live.

• True

• False

TRUE/FALSE: Life expectancy directly correlates with having access to adequate medical care, availability of educational opportunities, and the affordability of these things to the average resident.

• True

• False

The literacy rate is what?

• The percentage of people who can read and write a second language.

• The percentage of people who can read their native language.

• The percentage of people who can read and write their native language.

• The percentage of people who can read a second language.

True/False: The J-curve is a concept that helps us understand the decline of a nations economy over time.

• True

• False

True/False: Continued medical and technological advancements, in addition to a more integrated global infrastructure, allowed food and medicines to reach people farther from the sources of invention and discovery. As a result, the population of the world started to “explode.”

• True

• False

What is Population Density?

• The number of people multiplied by land area

• The number of people divided by land area

• The number of people divided by city limit

• The number of people multiplied by city limit

The arrangement of people within a predefined area is know as what? 

• Population density

• Agricultural density

• Population distribution

• None of these

Agricultural density is what?

• The number of farmers per unit of arable land.

• The number of people per unit of arable land.

• The number of farmers per unit of square mile of land.

• The number of people per unit of square mile of  land.

True/False: Physiologic density and Agricultural density mean the same thing. 

• True

• False