1
Q
- The term demography has Greek linguistic roots meaning “people” and “study of.”
A
TRUE
2
Q
- Between 1910 and 2010 the world’s population increased from 2 to 7 billion.
A
TRUE
3
Q
- At the beginning of the twentieth century, the percent of the U.S. population that was foreign born was considerably less than it was at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
A
TRUE
4
Q
- The fact that demography is connected to nearly everything means that demography determines
nearly everything.
A
FALSE
5
Q
- All of the future growth in the world is expected to show up in cities.
A
TRUE
6
Q
- A youth bulge inevitably leads to conflict in human populations.
A
FALSE
7
Q
- Globalization has been spurred on by the global decline in death rates after World War II.
A
TRUE
8
Q
- The crime rate is associated with the age structure because young men are most apt to commit crimes.
A
TRUE
9
Q
- Life insurance companies and pension funds both make more money the longer that their
customers live.
A
FALSE
10
Q
- The oppression of women in a society will likely be associated with an unfavorable demographic profile for that country
A
TRUE
11
Q
- The Agricultural Revolution beginning 10,000 years ago led to a growth in population.
A
TRUE
12
Q
- The United Nations projects that the population of the world will double again over the next 40
years.
A
FASLE
13
Q
- Declining mortality, not rising fertility, is the cause of the “population explosion.”
A
TRUE
14
Q
- The least developed countries in the world are growing faster than the less developed or more
developed nations.
A
FALSE
15
Q
- The majority of people ever born are alive at this moment.
A
FALSE
16
Q
- Nearly 4 in 10 humans live either in China or on the Indian subcontinent.
A
TRUE
17
Q
- India’s demography is so diverse that some of its southern states actually have fertility levels
that are below replacement
A
TRUE
18
Q
- The drop in fertility in China is largely a result of its one-child policy.
A
FALSE
19
Q
- China may be the first country in demographic history to grow old before it grows rich.
A
TRUE
20
Q
- Fertility is so low in Japan that it seems to have its own “one-child policy.”
A
TRUE
21
Q
- Growth rates in the Roman Empire were lower than they might have been because of tolerance
for polygamy, divorce, abortion, and infanticide
A
TRUE
22
Q
- The doctrine of mercantilism maintained that the more people a nation had, the more it could
produce, and thus the wealthier it would be.
A
TRUE
23
Q
- It is likely that if the French Revolution had not occurred, Malthus’s book on population would
never have been published
A
TRUE
24
Q
- Malthus was not a firm believer in human progress
A
TRUE
25
5. Neo-Malthusians are the people who influenced Darwin’s ideas about evolution.
FALSE
26
6. Malthus and Marx agreed on the causes of population growth, but not on the consequences.
TRUE
27
7. Marx’s denial of the potential for population problems in a socialist society was proven correct
by what later happened in Russia and China.
TRUE
28
8. Demographic transition theory relates the different timing in mortality and fertility declines to
the interstitial growth in population.
TRUE
29
9. Two key concepts added during the reformulation of the demographic transition theory were
secularization and diffusion.
FALSE
30
10. A key element in the Easterlin hypothesis is that the relative size of cohorts can influence the
way in which people and societies change over time.
TRUE
31
1. The Domesday Book in England represents the first modern census.
FALSE
32
2. Germany has always had a population register rather than conducting a census.
FALSE
33
3. A census has been taken every 10 years in the United States since 1790.
TRUE
34
4. The most important source of potential error in most censuses is content error.
TRUE
35
1. The plague disappeared from Europe at about the time that the Industrial Revolution was getting
started.
TRUE
36
2. The available evidence suggests that the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 actually erupted
first in the West African country of Sierra Leone.
TRUE
37
3. Medical advances were the main reason for the decline of mortality in Europe and the United
States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
FALSE
38
4. Life expectancy in the United States is now twice what it was 150 years ago.
TRUE
39
5. Life expectancy in Russia is now significantly higher than it was 30 years ago.
FALSE
40
6. Life expectancy and life span both refer to the highest age to which humans can expect to live.
FALSE
41
7. The finding that your initials might somehow affect your life expectancy offers evidence of
possible psychological influences on mortality.
TRUE
42
8. Given the current world averages, an infant mortality rate of 50 would be considered low.
FALSE
43
9. In human and many non-human animal populations, females have a biological survival
advantage over men.
TRUE
44
10. The crude death rate is called “crude” because it does not take into account the age and sex
distribution of the population.
TRUE
45
3. Hutterite women in the United States in the 1930s averaged 11 live births per woman.
TRUE
46
4. The opportunity costs of children change over time as social circumstances change.
TRUE
47
5. The diffusion of ideas such as desired family size is enhanced by the existence of rigidly defined
social strata.
FALSE
48
6. Before there was birth control, there was child control.
TRUE
49
7. The later a woman marries, the more children she is likely to have.
FALSE
50
8. Abortion rates tend to be highest when other methods of contraception are not readily available
to women.
TRUE
51
9. The United Kingdom is one of the few European countries in which fertility has recently risen
above replacement level.
FALSE
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