Week 3 APES Quiz

Week 3 APES Quiz

1.  Giving women everywhere full legal rights and the opportunity to become educated and earn income outside the home will

a.  Decrease population growth

b.  Stabilize population growth

c.  Increase population growth

d.  Have no effect on population growth

2.  All of the following are said to be the best way to slow population growth EXCEPT

a.  Invest in family planning

b.  Reduce poverty

c.  Elevate the status of women

d.  Make health care unavailable to women and children

3.  India’s population is

a.  Stable

b.  Growing

c.  Declining

d.  None of the above

4.  All of the following are reasons for India’s population issues EXCEPT

a.  Children needed to work and care for parents in their old age

b.  Strong preference for male children

c.  One child only policy

d.  Avoidance of birth control

5.  China reduced its population size by implementing

a.  The one child only policy

b.  Mandatory birth control

c.  Mandatory abortion

d.  Mandatory sterilization

6.  A major concern in China because of so many people is

a.  Lack of education

b.  Lack of jobs

c.  Environmental degradation

d.  Shortage of birth control

7.  China’s economy is

a.  Growing at one of the World’s highest rates

b.  Stabilizing

c.  In a serious recession

d.  Can’t be determined at this time

8.  According to the table above, the species most likely r-selected is/are the

I. Cockroach

II. Cane Toad

III. Trout

IV. Orangutan

A. I & II only

B. (B) I & III only

C. (C) I, II & IV only

D. (D) II , III & IV only

E. (E) I, II & III only

9.  One result of the one child only policy is

a.  People were mass murdered in China by government officials

b.  China’s numbers continued to rise

c.  There are 30 – 40 million more men than women in China

d.  China’ economy declined

10.  The graph above indicates that more children die

a.  in the last stage of the demographic transition

b.  with illiterate mothers

c.  with literate mothers

d.  with mothers who are poor