Chapter 2 Key Issue #3 Part 2

  1. Two strategies have been most effective in reducing birth rates since 1990. What are they?
  2. ______
  3. ______
  4. The 2 biggest benefits of the education of women are:
  5. ______
  6. ______
  7. Describe the statistical correlation between CBRs and IMRs is ______.
  1. The most effective method for reducing CBRs in developing countries like Bangladesh, Morocco, Colombia, and Thailand has been ______.
  2. The low rate of contraceptive use in Africa reflects the region’s
  3. Improving education of women
  4. low status of women
  5. rapid diffusion of contraceptives
  6. rising standard of living
  7. threat of contracting HIV/AIDS
  1. In what kind of country do the highest percentages of women use methods of family planning to reduce fertility?
  1. The United States has reduced its funding of international family planning efforts based on:
  2. Halting the industrialization of developing countries
  3. Concerns for the U.S. economy as wages in developing countries increases
  4. Anti-abortion political agendas
  5. Concerns that family planning will create a backlash against women’s rights
  6. Increased military spending to fight a war against terrorism
  7. According to British economist, Thomas Malthus, population grows ______while food supply grows ______.
  8. Critics of Malthus’s theory believe his predictions to be incorrect for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
  9. The world’s supply of resources is not fixed but is expanding
  10. Larger populations actually stimulate economic growth and more jobs
  11. Larger populations promote increased innovations in increasing food production
  12. Poverty and hunger are not the result of food shortages but unequal distribution of available resources.
  13. It is impossible to predict the future
  1. In comparing Malthus’s theory to actual world food production and population growth during the past half-century, the principle difference is that
  2. Actual food production has been much higher than Malthus predicted
  3. Malthus’s theory predicted much higher food production than has actually occurred
  4. Actual population growth has been much higher than Malthus predicted
  5. Malthus’s theory predicted much higher population growth than has actually occurred
  6. Population increased geometrically while food production increased arithmetically
  1. Contemporary geographers who accept Malthus’s basic premise, but believe population growth may actually be worse than Malthus predicted are called ______.
  2. What severe problem does Japan face as a result of its population structure?
  3. A shortage of workers
  4. Too many immigrants
  5. Not enough women in the work force
  6. Rising Crude Birth Rates
  7. Rising Natural Increase Rate
  1. All of the following characteristics are true of Stage 5 countries EXCEPT:
  2. Low CBR
  3. Increasing CDR
  4. Negative NIR
  5. Too few women in their childbearing years
  6. Rising TFR
  1. The primary factor in the difference between the population projections of Japan and the United States is ______.
  1. What are the 2 controversial anti-natalist policies used to lower birth rates in India and China respectively?
  2. ______
  3. ______

EXTRA CREDIT:

  1. Most Stage 5 countries are found in what geographic region of the world? ______.

Ch. 2 Key Issue #4 Quiz

  1. Overpopulation is equated with areas:
  1. of low death rates
  2. of imbalanced fertility rates and dependency ratios
  3. with a continuing imbalance between numbers of people and carrying capacity
  4. in the first stage of the demographic transition cycle with high fertility rates
  5. of high birth rates
  1. In his theories, Malthus failed to recognize:
  1. the discovery of new inhabitable regions
  2. war and diseases
  3. population is limited by the availability of resources
  4. changes in human dietary patterns
  5. changes in technology
  1. The global population explosion after World War II reflected the effects of:
  1. the heavy death toll during the war with fewer births occurring
  2. massive industrialization attempts in both developing and developed countries
  3. the return of thousands of military men to their families from the war
  4. drastically reduced death rates in developing countries without simultaneous and compensating reductions in births
  5. government policies in Europe attempting to repopulate the war-torn countries
  1. The most lethal epidemic in recent years has been
  2. Avian flu
  3. AIDS
  4. Malaria
  5. Cholera
  6. SARS
  7. In which stage of the epidemiological transition do countries experience declining rates of death caused by Cholera, Dysentery, Tuberculosis and other infectious pandemics?
  8. Stage 1
  9. Stage 2
  10. Stage 3
  11. Stage 4
  12. Stage 5
  13. In which stage of the epidemiological transition do countries experience a shift from infectious diseases to degenerative diseases as the major cause of death?
  14. Stage 1
  15. Stage 2
  16. Stage 3
  17. Stage 4
  18. Stage 5
  19. A possible Stage 5 epidemiological transition is the stage of
  20. Pestilence and famine
  21. Receding pandemics
  22. Degenerative and human created diseases
  23. Delayed degenerative diseases
  24. Reemergence of infectious and parasitic diseases