| Question |
Answer |
| Carrying capacity is |
a reflection of cultural subduction |
| The systematic study of human population is called |
demography |
| The first stage of the demographic transition is marked by |
high birth rates, high but fluctuating death rates |
| Zero population growth (ZPG) |
refers to an exact equation of births and deaths |
| The theory of the demographic transition holds that |
both birth and death rates decrease with urbanization |
| One check to rapid population increase formerly available to European countries but not a possibility in today's developing societies was |
mass migration |
| During the last decade of the 20th century, world population increased each year by about |
84 million. |
| The doubling time for world population at recent rates of increase is about |
50 years |
| When the average fertility rate of a population drops to the replacement level |
population continues to grow for a generation or more |
| The continent with the highest total fertility rates overall is |
Africa |
| The Malthusian theory is based on what assumptions? |
Population tends to increase more rapidly than do the food supplies to support that population |
| The portions of the earth's surface permanently inhabited by humans make up the |
ecumene. |
| Some 90% of the world's population resides on less than what percent of its land area? |
20 |
| A broad-based population pyramid suggests that a country is in what stage of the demographic transition? |
second |
| The crude death rate for wealthy Western Europe is much higher than that for Central America because |
Western Europe has a higher proportion of old people |
| What are the characteristics of a national population that one can tell from its population pyramid? |
age structure, sex structure, dependency ratio |
| An expression of population pressure exerted on agricultural land is |
physiological density |
| Population projections have often been inaccurate in the past and likely will be inaccurate in the future because |
projections are based on assumptions about trends that may not be supported by events |
| General worldwide declines of crude death rates |
do not apply to pregnancy-related deaths |
| Numerically, the smallest of the major world population concentrations is that of |
the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. |
| Rapid increases in life expectancy are characteristic of which stage of the demographic transition? |
second |
| What is the term used to describe a population group unified by an identifying characteristic |
cohort |
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