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______1. Which of the following is true of human demographic trends?
a. In pre-industrial societies, birth rates and death rates are high.
b. When the death rate falls, the total population always decreases.
c. When birth rates and death rates are both high, the population grows rapidly.
d. Death rates rise in the last stages of the demographic transition.
______2. Between 1880 and 1930 human population doubled due to
a. advances in the Industrial Revolution.
b. a combination of high birth rates and lowered death rates.
c. improvements in societal infrastructure and services.
d. All of the above
______3. Countries in the advanced stages of demographic transition are most probably characterized by
a. weak or developing economies.
b. death rates that far exceed birth rates.
c. societal conditions that favor smaller families and a more stabilized population.
d. populations with a high proportion of young people.
______4. Which of the following is a strategy that would reduce population size?
a. increased education for women c. economic incentives
b. public advertising d. all of the above
______5. Scientists predict population sizes by using
a. survivorship, migration, life expectancy, and replacement structure.
b. life expectancy, age structure, fertility rate, and migration.
c. replacement rate, fertility rate, age rates, and survivorship.
d. age structure, survivorship, fertility rate, and migration.
______6. Which of the following is not part of a community’s infrastructure?
a. public water supply
b. power plants
c. sewer lines
d. arable land
______7. Suburban sprawl results in
a. traffic jams.
b. inadequate infrastructure.
c. reduction of land for farms, ranches, and wildlife habitat.
d. All of the above
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