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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 1.What do an urban dweller in Vietnam and a Canadian Mohawk woman have in common? a.They are both ill, due to environmental pollution. b.They are both victims of corporate crime. c.They are both sheltered in the same global environment. d.Neither is concerned about the health of the environment. 2.According to the text’s discussion, demography focuses: a.only on counting how many people there are living in the developed world. b.on population size, distribution and composition, and how birth, death, and migration rates influence each element. c.only on the size and distribution of populations in the free world. d.on urbanization. 3.If you wished to measure birth using the most common measure, which one would you use? a.The crude birth rate, which is the annual number of births per 1000 in the population. b.The fertility rate, which is how many infants are born in a given year in a given population. c.The number of children still alive one year after birth. d.The number of infants under one year of age, plus the number of pregnant women who will give birth before the end of the year. 4.The fertility rate is: a.the annual number of births per 1000 in the population. b.the biological potential for bearing children. c.a good measure of the overall health and well-being of a society. d.the actual reproductive behavior determined by the annual number of live births per 1000 women of childbearing age in the population. 5.The movement of people in and out of various areas which is specifically tracked according to political boundaries is known as the __________ rate. a.migration.c.out-migration b.in-migration d.net migration 6.The demographic transition theory: a.explains the process that results in global graying. b.states that in the final stage, the rate of population growth is high because of an increase in the crude birth rate. c.allows demographers to predict population growth in the developing world, because these countries will experience industrialization just as the developed world has done. d.helps to explain the effect of industrialization on population. 7.If you needed information on the age and sex structure of a population at a given point in time, what would be the best graphic representation of this information? a.the sex pyramidc.the population pyramid b.the sex ratiod.the age-gender triangle 8.Which of the following will be affected by the pattern of global graying? a.health policy c.labor force participation b.family structured.all of the above 9.Why will the developing world continue to experience dramatic population growth even though their growth rates have dropped? a.Even with a diminished growth rate (low birth rates), large numbers of young people in or yet to go through their childbearing years will bring a large number of people into the world in the next two decades. b. The developing world’s leaders have little control over how many children their people have. c.The statement above is false; a decrease in growth rates means that there will not be a population increase. d.As the developing world modernizes, large numbers of people from the developed world will migrate to these countries. 10.According to the text, Zero Population Growth: a.is a concept that has very little influence on population policies around the world. b.suggests that if most young people marry and each married couple has two children, the population will replace itself and the growth rate will remain static. c.is an unrealistic goal that can never be reached by most countries in the world. d.all of the above 1