WorksheetsChapter 8 Human Populations
Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 22mins
What event in the mid-1700s significantly changed human population growth?
Industrial Revolution
development of agriculture
bubonic plague
human settlement began
Which combination of factors will produce the highest rate of population growth?
high life expectancy and high infant mortality
low life expectancy and low infant mortality
low life expectancy and high infant mortality
high life expectancy and low infant mortality
What is a population’s total fertility rate?
the number of births needed to keep a nation’s population stable
the average number of children a male member of a population has each year
the average number of children a female member of the population has during her lifetime
the total number of babies born in a population each generation
These graphs above are called
age structure diagrams.
life expectancy diagrams.
demographic diagrams.
infant mortality diagrams.
Which is the proper sequence of steps in the demographic transition model?
pre-industrial, industrial, post-industrial, transitional
pre-industrial, transitional, industrial, post-industrial
transitional, pre-industrial, industrial, post-industrial
post-industrial, transitional, industrial, pre-industrial
What happens during the transitional stage of the demographic transition?
Birthrates begin to fall.
Death rates begin to fall.
Birth rates increase.
Death rates increase.
In which of the following countries would individuals have the largest ecological footprints?
India
China
Canada
Thailand
In what year did the human population reach 1 billion people?
300
1200
1800
2000
In recent years, the human population has
increased exponentially.
decreased exponentially.
decreased slowly.
increased slowly.
The average number of years an individual is predicted to live is called
Carrying Capacity
Life Expectancy
Growth Rate
Demography
The number of organisms that an environment can support is called the
life expectancy.
demography
carrying capacity.
growth rate
Which area would have the lowest population density?
seacoast in Europe
river in China
tundra in Russia
suburb in the U.S.A.
The amount of people living in a given area is described as population
morality
expectancy
rate
density
Which factor(s) help increase total fertility rates?
needing extra help on farms
government programs supporting older adults
more children surviving childhood
one-child policies
What does the replacement fertility rate depend on the most?
population growth
demography
total fertility rate
death rate
What can be inferred about an area that has an age structure diagram with a pyramid shape?
The population is likely to decrease in the future.
There is a high proportion of older people to younger people.
There is a high population growth rate.
There is a low population growth rate.
What could be inferred about an area that has an age structure diagram with a “barrel” shape (thicker in the middle, narrower on the top and bottom)?
There is low population growth.
The population is likely to increase in the future.
There is a high proportion of young people to older people.
There is high population growth.
The number of males compared to females in a population is the
age structure
sex ratio
total fertility rate
demography
The model used to explain the reason that some industrialized nations have experienced a large change in birthrates and death rates is called the
demographic transition model.
replacement fertility model.
Industrial Revolution model.
life expectancy model.
Which stage of the demographic transition has the highest level of population growth?
industrial
transitional
pre-industrial
post-industrial
Which of the following regions is developed?
China
Mexico
Eastern Europe
Australia
What happened around 10,000 years ago that changed the way many humans live?
Humans went from being cave dwellers to roaming hunter-gatherers.
Humans went from living on farms to working in factories.
Humans went from being roaming hunter-gatherers to settled farmers.
Humans invented the spear and became hunters.
What has caused the carrying capacity of the human species to increase rapidly in recent years?
political change
technology
climate
animal population changes
The human population is roughly
7 million
300 million
7 billion
2 trillion
Since the 1960s, the human population growth rate has increased.
true
false
In the time it took you to read this sentence, people were born and people died, but it is likely that fewer people were born than died.
true
false
A population with many young people compared to older people will likely experience slow population growth as the young people mature and have children.
true
false
As a naturally occurring phenomenon, fewer males are born around the world than females.
true
false
The population growth of developing nations as a whole surpasses population growth in developed nations.
true
false
The Industrial Revolution happened about 200 to 300 years ago.
true
false
A population with fewer younger people than older people will likely decrease in the future.
true
false
More people live in developing nations than live in developed nations.
true
false
Humans have a(n) minor impact on their environment.
true
false
Individuals from affluent societies tend to have smaller ecological footprints than people from poor societies.
true
false
How a population changes in size during a specific period of time is called the
growth rate
fertility rate
death rate
The total fertility rate for a nation that would keep its population stable is called ____________________ fertility.
total
replacement
infertility
____________________ nations are high-income nations, such as the United States.
Developed
Developing
Agricultural
The stark contrast between affluent and poor societies in today’s world is often called the ____________________.
income gap
wealth gap
poverty gap
Many new diseases, sometimes called ____________________ diseases and which could become threats to the human population as a whole, arose because of the merging of human and animal habitats.
emerging
viral
bacterial
The number of babies out of 1,000 that die during their first year of life is called
fertility rate
infant mortality rate
growth rate
The study of human population statistics is called ____________________.
demography
technology
statistics
The average number of children a female member of a population has during her lifetime is the population’s total ____________________.
fertility rate
replacement rate
death rate
The term ____________________ nation refers to nations with moderate or low income.
developed
developing
industrial
____________________ refers to how well an individual lives.
Quality of life
Wealth gap
Affluence
