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The United States is the world's third largest country, but has only what percentage of the world's population? |
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7.9% |
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12.1% |
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4.5% |
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19.2% |
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14.5% |
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| 2. |
What is the natural increase for a country if it has a birth rate of 14 and a death rate of 10. |
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4.0 |
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.04 |
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c) |
.4 |
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.5 |
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.6 |
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| 3. |
Which one of the following is not one of the world's four largest population concentrations:
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South Asia |
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Europe |
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Eastern Africa |
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Eastern North America |
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East Asia |
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| 4. |
The Malthusian Theory, attributed to Thomas Malthus, states that: |
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population will continue to grow unchecked |
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population grows in a linear fashion and would exceed food production |
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food supply would keep pace with population growth |
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population increases in a exponential manner while food supply can only increase in a linear, or straight line fashion
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all of the above. |
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| 5. |
Survivorship is defined as: |
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when one spouse outlives the other |
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the amount of a country's population remaining after a great war |
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the length of life |
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when children live longerthat two years of age |
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none of the above |
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| 6. |
What is the average infant mortality rate in developed countries/Less developed countries? |
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8/1000 live births, 63/1000 live births |
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63/1000 live births, 8/1000 live births |
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80/1000 live births, 630/1000 live births |
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800/1000 live births, 63/1000 live births |
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8/1000 live births, 6.3/1000 births |
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| 7. |
What percentage of the world's population is located in China if its current population is an estimated 1.3 billion and the world's total population is 6.067 billion? |
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21% |
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2.1% |
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2.4% |
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24% |
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24.1% |
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| 8. |
Population growth is highest in countries that: |
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are industrialized
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are resource rich |
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are in the early and late expanding stages of the demographic transition |
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are extremely poor with both high birth and death rates |
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all of the above. |
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| 9. |
Which state in the demographic transition is characterized by high, unchanging birth rates combined with decreasing death rates? |
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high stationary |
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low stationary |
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early expanding
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late expanding |
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none of the above. |
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| 10. |
The population age-sex structure of an area can be represented with: |
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the ZPG |
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a population pyramid |
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the population potential |
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the population dynamic |
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none of the above. |
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