Deck 3: Population Dynamics

Question 1

What is one the reasons behind longer-term declines in world population?

A) wars
B) disease
C) drought
D) social conflict

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What is a pandemic?

A) An epidemic on a wide geographical scale.
B) A widespread endemic disease.
C) An epidemic that impacted small city-states.
D) A rapidly spreading contagion.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Where did the Black Death occur?

A) Asia, North Africa, and Europe
B) Middle East, Asia, and Europe
C) North America, Asia, and Europe
D) Australia, North Africa, and Europe

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Across the American continent, what percentage of the indigenous population was lost due to diseases brought from Europe?

A) 50 percent
B) 65 percent
C) 84 percent
D) 90 percent

Question 5

Patriarchy is a belief system and practice where men are the public authority figures and women are restricted to the private sphere of home and caregiving. What demographic condition is related to the development of patriarchy?

A) low reproductive efficiency
B) low reproductive capacity
C) high reproductive efficiency
D) high reproductive capacity

Question 6

What is an accurate representation of the relationship between agricultural productivity and human populations?

A) Increase in agricultural productivity would not support growth in human populations.
B) Decline in human populations would mean that agricultural productivity increased.
C) Increase in human population would have no effect on agricultural productivity.
D) Decline in agricultural productivity would increase mortality and decrease births.

Question 7

What best describes the American landscape of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

A) North America was a vast wilderness before the coming of the Europeans.
B) The Columbian Encounter introduced exotic European crop varieties to the Americas.
C) North America was not a pristine landscape but human impact had diminished.
D) The Columbian Encounter revealed the pristine nature of the American wilderness.

Question 8

What is NOT associated with the demographic transition?

A) increase in life expectancy
B) youthful population
C) decline in mortality
D) graying population

Question 9

According to the demographic transition, what trend occurred after life expectancy increased?

A) graying population
B) increased births
C) mortality increased
D) decreased fertility

Question 10

Where did the decline in mortality rates first begin, and what was responsible for it?

A) In East Asia, improvements to hygiene and diet lowered mortality rates.
B) In North America, mortality declined along with lower fertility rates and better diets.
C) In Africa, public health progress and reduction in birth rates helped mortality decline.
D) In Western Europe, mortality dropped when public health and hygiene improved.

Question 11

What country is likely to have the highest birth rates?

A) Japan
B) United States
C) Mali
D) Argentina

Question 12

What country is likely to have the largest percent over the age of 65?

A) Japan
B) United States
C) Mali
D) Argentina

Question 13

What phase of the demographic transition is characterized by both high birth and death rates, with stable slow population growth?

A) First
B) Second
C) Third
D) Fourth

Question 14

What phase of the demographic transition is marked by falling birth and death rates, and with slowing population growth?

A) First
B) Second
C) Third
D) Fourth

Question 15

What term describes the relative sizes of the working age and non-working age cohorts in a population?

A) youth bulge
B) dependency ratio
C) graying population
D) dependent population

Question 16

What is the Lewis Turning Point?

A) Location at which a population's agricultural output will increase and support growth.
B) Increased demand for labor drives up wages and benefits, increasing cost to employers.
C) When the supply of cheap labor associated with the demographic dividend runs out.
D) As cheap labor dwindles, there is a need for implementing full female participation.

Question 17

What occurrence, usually in the early and middle phases of the demographic transition, has been linked to increases in political instability and possibility of political violence?

A) a youth bulge of more than 20 percent of the population
B) a dependency ratio of more than 20 percent of the population
C) a graying population that is more than 20 percent of the population
D) a female participation rate that is less than 20 percent of the population

Question 18

What is the fifth phase of the demographic transition?

A) A return to high birth rates and high death rates and high population growth.
B) A period of very low birth and death rates with stable or decreasing population.
C) A condition where the youthful population balloons following increases in migration.
D) A stage of population stability when both rates of births and deaths are equal.

Question 19

What country has the youngest median age and is likely between the second and third phases of the demographic transition?

A) Uganda
B) Guatemala
C) India
D) Japan