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Chapter 8 Human Populations

Total questions: 44

Worksheet time: 22mins

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Class
Date
1.

What event in the mid-1700s significantly changed human population growth?

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

development of agriculture

c)

bubonic plague

d)

human settlement began

2.

Which combination of factors will produce the highest rate of population growth?

a)

high life expectancy and high infant mortality

b)

low life expectancy and low infant mortality

c)

low life expectancy and high infant mortality

d)

high life expectancy and low infant mortality

3.

What is a population’s total fertility rate?

a)

the number of births needed to keep a nation’s population stable

b)

the average number of children a male member of a population has each year

c)

the average number of children a female member of the population has during her lifetime

d)

the total number of babies born in a population each generation

4.

These graphs above are called

a)

age structure diagrams.

b)

life expectancy diagrams.

c)

demographic diagrams.

d)

infant mortality diagrams.

5.

Which is the proper sequence of steps in the demographic transition model?

a)

pre-industrial, industrial, post-industrial, transitional

b)

pre-industrial, transitional, industrial, post-industrial

c)

transitional, pre-industrial, industrial, post-industrial

d)

post-industrial, transitional, industrial, pre-industrial

6.

What happens during the transitional stage of the demographic transition?

a)

Birthrates begin to fall.

b)

Death rates begin to fall.

c)

Birth rates increase.

d)

Death rates increase.

7.

In which of the following countries would individuals have the largest ecological footprints?

a)

India

b)

China

c)

Canada

d)

Thailand

8.

In what year did the human population reach 1 billion people?

a)

300

b)

1200

c)

1800

d)

2000

9.

In recent years, the human population has

a)

increased exponentially.

b)

decreased exponentially.

c)

decreased slowly.

d)

increased slowly.

10.

The average number of years an individual is predicted to live is called

a)

Carrying Capacity

b)

Life Expectancy

c)

Growth Rate

d)

Demography

11.

The number of organisms that an environment can support is called the

a)

life expectancy.

b)

demography

c)

carrying capacity.

d)

growth rate

12.

Which area would have the lowest population density?

a)

seacoast in Europe

b)

river in China

c)

tundra in Russia

d)

suburb in the U.S.A.

13.

The amount of people living in a given area is described as population

a)

morality

b)

expectancy

c)

rate

d)

density

14.

Which factor(s) help increase total fertility rates?

a)

needing extra help on farms

b)

government programs supporting older adults

c)

more children surviving childhood

d)

one-child policies

15.

What does the replacement fertility rate depend on the most?

a)

population growth

b)

demography

c)

total fertility rate

d)

death rate

16.

What can be inferred about an area that has an age structure diagram with a pyramid shape?

a)

The population is likely to decrease in the future.

b)

There is a high proportion of older people to younger people.

c)

There is a high population growth rate.

d)

There is a low population growth rate.

17.

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)?

a)

There is low population growth.

b)

The population is likely to increase in the future.

c)

There is a high proportion of young people to older people.

d)

There is high population growth.

18.

The number of males compared to females in a population is the

a)

age structure

b)

sex ratio

c)

total fertility rate

d)

demography

19.

The model used to explain the reason that some industrialized nations have experienced a large change in birthrates and death rates is called the

a)

demographic transition model.

b)

replacement fertility model.

c)

Industrial Revolution model.

d)

life expectancy model.

20.

Which stage of the demographic transition has the highest level of population growth?

a)

industrial

b)

transitional

c)

pre-industrial

d)

post-industrial

21.

Which of the following regions is developed?

a)

China

b)

Mexico

c)

Eastern Europe

d)

Australia

22.

What happened around 10,000 years ago that changed the way many humans live?

a)

Humans went from being cave dwellers to roaming hunter-gatherers.

b)

Humans went from living on farms to working in factories.

c)

Humans went from being roaming hunter-gatherers to settled farmers.

d)

Humans invented the spear and became hunters.

23.

What has caused the carrying capacity of the human species to increase rapidly in recent years?

a)

political change

b)

technology

c)

climate

d)

animal population changes

24.

The human population is roughly

a)

7 million

b)

300 million

c)

7 billion

d)

2 trillion

25.

Since the 1960s, the human population growth rate has increased.

a)

true

b)

false

26.

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.

a)

true

b)

false

27.

A population with many young people compared to older people will likely experience slow population growth as the young people mature and have children.

a)

true

b)

false

28.

As a naturally occurring phenomenon, fewer males are born around the world than females.

a)

true

b)

false

29.

The population growth of developing nations as a whole surpasses population growth in developed nations.

a)

true

b)

false

30.

The Industrial Revolution happened about 200 to 300 years ago.

a)

true

b)

false

31.

A population with fewer younger people than older people will likely decrease in the future.

a)

true

b)

false

32.

More people live in developing nations than live in developed nations.

a)

true

b)

false

33.

Humans have a(n) minor impact on their environment.

a)

true

b)

false

34.

Individuals from affluent societies tend to have smaller ecological footprints than people from poor societies.

a)

true

b)

false

35.

How a population changes in size during a specific period of time is called the

a)

growth rate

b)

fertility rate

c)

death rate

36.

The total fertility rate for a nation that would keep its population stable is called ____________________ fertility.

a)

total

b)

replacement

c)

infertility

37.

____________________ nations are high-income nations, such as the United States.

a)

Developed

b)

Developing

c)

Agricultural

38.

The stark contrast between affluent and poor societies in today’s world is often called the ____________________.

a)

income gap

b)

wealth gap

c)

poverty gap

39.

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.

a)

emerging

b)

viral

c)

bacterial

40.

The number of babies out of 1,000 that die during their first year of life is called

a)

fertility rate

b)

infant mortality rate

c)

growth rate

41.

The study of human population statistics is called ____________________.

a)

demography

b)

technology

c)

statistics

42.

The average number of children a female member of a population has during her lifetime is the population’s total ____________________.

a)

fertility rate

b)

replacement rate

c)

death rate

43.

The term ____________________ nation refers to nations with moderate or low income.

a)

developed

b)

developing

c)

industrial

44.

____________________ refers to how well an individual lives.

a)

Quality of life

b)

Wealth gap

c)

Affluence