Practice Quiz Chapter 02

. _________ is the most populous region in the world.

a) East Asia

b) South-Central Asia

c) Europe

d) Africa

e) South America

. Fertility is related to _________.

a) biological factors

b) pro-natal policies

c) cultural factors

d) variations in mortality

e) both A and C

. _________ refers to the maximum population that can be supported by a given set of resources and a given level of technology.

a) Population pyramid

b) Replacement-level fertility

c) Population momentum

d) Carrying capacity

e) Place utility

. The main causes of global population aging are _________.

a) declining fertility and mortality rates

b) declining life expectancy and fertility rates

c) increasing mortality rates

d) AIDS pandemics

e) all of the above

. Medical geography is closely aligned with the study of disease, whereas health geography is aligned with _________.

a) physical well-being

b) mental well-being

c) social well-being

d) health

e) all of the above

. _________ migration involves large numbers of people.

a) Primitive

b) Forced

c) Mass

d) Illegal

e) Free

. A key concern in a society with an aging population is _________.

a) the requirement for adjustments to health care for different patterns of disease and disability

b) increased stress on social benefits

c) the lack of a young labour force to support a growing elderly population

d) both A and C

e) all of the above

. _________ is the level of fertility at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next.

a) Fecundity

b) The AIDS pandemic

c) Total fertility rate

d) Replacement-level fertility

e) Pro-natalist

. A sex ratio is _________.

a) the fertility rate compared to the mortality rate

b) the number of males per 100 females in a population

c) the number of children in a given population selling sex as a means to support themselves

d) the number of females per 100 males in a population

e) the mortality rate for females compared to males in a population

. The infant mortality rate measures _________.

a) the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births in a given year

b) the number of births in a country in a given year

c) the total number of deaths in infants under one year old in the world in a given year

d) the total number of births in the world in a given year

e) the mortality rate for infant females compared to infant males in a population

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