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In areas with low ____________________, people usually have less children because of the increased life expectancy.
What is infant mortality rate
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When generations do nothing more than replace themselves, the ____________________ is columnar, a characteristic of stable populations.
What is age structure
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An advantage of ____________________ is the decrease in birth rates and decrease in abortions.
What is family planning
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China's population policy has included all of the following except a. encouraging later marriages. b. health, pension, and employment benefits for a one-child pledge. c. urging couples to have no more than one child. d. encouraging contraceptive use but banning abortion. e. free access to birth control.
What is d encouraging contaceptive use but banning abortion
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Which of the following is not one of the goals of the 1994 UN Conference on Population and Development? a. Reduce and eliminate unsustainable patterns of production and consumption. b. Increase access to education, especially for boys. c. Improve the health care of infants, children, and pregnant mothers. d. Improve employment opportunities for young women. e. Take steps to eradicate poverty.
What is b increase access to education, expecially for boys
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____________________ refers to a process in which an increasing proportion of an entire population lives in cities and the suburbs of cities.
What is urbanization
200
A baby boomer is least likely to a. strongly influence demands for goods and services. b. influence politics. c. take voluntary early retirement. d. place strains on Medicare as middle age approaches. e. place strains on social security as they retire.
What is c take volutary early retirement
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____________________ is when the birth rate declines equaling the death rate and population growth is zero.
What is post industrial stage
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India's family planning has yielded disappointing results for all of the following reasons except a. poor planning and bureaucratic inefficiency. b. failure to employ sterilization. c. extreme poverty. d. low status of women. e. lack of administrative and financial support.
What is b. failure to employ sterilization.
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Which of the following is not one of the goals of the 1994 UN Conference on Population and Development? a. Make population policies part of social and economic development policies. b. Emphasize that child-rearing and family planning responsibilities belong to women. c. Take steps to eradicate poverty. d. Bring about more equitable relationships between the sexes. e. Increase access to education, especially for girls and women.
What is b emphasize that child-rearing and family planning responsibilities belong to women
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____________________ can lower a country's population size if it is higher than the total fertility rate.
What is replacement level fertility
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Countries undergoing rapid population decline may experience a rise in the proportion of the population a. on social security. b. consuming a large fraction of medical services. c. who are older people. d. can face labor shortages. e. all of these answers
What is e all of these answers
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____________________ is when industrialization begins, food production rises, healthcare improves, death rates drop, and birth rates remain high.
What is transition stage
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Which of the following statements about India is(are) true? a. There is a strong preference for female children. b. Many cultural norms favor large families. c. Indian women still have an average of 2.1 children. d. Government pensions have eliminated the need for large families. e. Women don't have access to birth control.
What is b. Many cultural norms favor large families.
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Which of the following statements reflects the views of many of the world's leading scientists and analysts? a. All parts of the world are well below carrying capacity for humans. b. Parts of the world are exceeding carrying capacity for humans, although most parts do not need to be concerned. c. Parts of the world are exceeding carrying capacity for humans, and with current trends, eventually other parts of the world will too. d. All parts of the world are currently exceeding carrying capacity for humans. e. All parts of the world are at carrying capacity for humans.
What is c Parts of the world are exceeding carrying capacity for humans, and with current trends, eventually other parts of the world will too.
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____________________ have declined because of food supply, better nutrition, advances in medicine, and improved sanitization.
What is death rates
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Population age structure diagrams can be divided into all of the following categories except a. infant. b. prereproductive. c. reproductive. d. postreproductive. e. a and b only
What is a. infant.
400
Which of the following statements best summarizes the Limits to Growth projection for consequences of continuing our societies at current world population growth and industrial output rates? a. Our societies are currently in sustainable dynamic equilibrium. b. Our societies will continue with minor changes. c. Our societies will demonstrate overshoot and collapse patterns in the next decade. d. Our societies will demonstrate overshoot and collapse patterns in the next century. e. none of these answers
What is d our societies will demostrate overshoot and collapse
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Which of the following statements about China is false? a. In the last quarter century, China's crude birth rate dropped from 32 to 25 per 1,000 people. b. Total fertility dropped from 5.7 to 1.8 children per woman. c. Life expectancy is 12 years higher than India. d. Illiteracy is about one-third of India's rate. e. Married couples have access to free birth control.
What is a. In the last quarter century, China's crude birth rate dropped from 32 to 25 per 1,000 people.
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All of the following countries achieved replacement-level fertility within 15-30 years except a. Japan. b. Thailand. c. India. d. Taiwan. e. Canada.
What is c. India.
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____________________ is viewed as the best single measure of a society's quality of life because it reflects a country's general health.
What is infant mortality rate
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Rapidly growing countries have an age structure that a. forms an inverted pyramid. b. has a broad-based pyramid. c. shows little variation in population by age. d. has a large prereproductive population. e. has a large postreproductive population.
What is b. has a broad-based pyramid.
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The change that takes place in a demographic transition occurs when a. one-third of the population is under 15 years of age. b. the birth rate drops below the death rate. c. the economic development of a country changes the population growth pattern. d. either immigration or emigration changes the population growth pattern. e. a population reaches one million.
What is c the economic developement of a country changes the population growth pattern
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Perhaps the most important feature of China's population control program that could be transferred to other countries is a. focusing control efforts on males. b. localizing the program rather than forcing people to travel to distant centers. c. requiring one of the parents to be sterilized when a couple has two children. d. encouraging couples to postpone marriage. e. none of these answers
What is b. localizing the program rather than forcing people to travel to distant centers.
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Experience indicates that population growth can be slowed by a. investing in family planning. b. elevating the status of women. c. reducing poverty. d. improving the health care of infants, children, and pregnant women. e. all of these answers
What is Experience indicates that population growth can be slowed by a. investing in family planning. b. elevating the status of women. c. reducing poverty. d. improving the health care of infants, children, and pregnant women. e. all of these answers
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