Chapter 2 Key Issue #3 Part 2
- Two strategies have been most effective in reducing birth rates since 1990. What are they?
- ______
- ______
- The 2 biggest benefits of the education of women are:
- ______
- ______
- Describe the statistical correlation between CBRs and IMRs is ______.
- The most effective method for reducing CBRs in developing countries like Bangladesh, Morocco, Colombia, and Thailand has been ______.
- The low rate of contraceptive use in Africa reflects the region’s
- Improving education of women
- low status of women
- rapid diffusion of contraceptives
- rising standard of living
- threat of contracting HIV/AIDS
- In what kind of country do the highest percentages of women use methods of family planning to reduce fertility?
- The United States has reduced its funding of international family planning efforts based on:
- Halting the industrialization of developing countries
- Concerns for the U.S. economy as wages in developing countries increases
- Anti-abortion political agendas
- Concerns that family planning will create a backlash against women’s rights
- Increased military spending to fight a war against terrorism
- According to British economist, Thomas Malthus, population grows ______while food supply grows ______.
- Critics of Malthus’s theory believe his predictions to be incorrect for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
- The world’s supply of resources is not fixed but is expanding
- Larger populations actually stimulate economic growth and more jobs
- Larger populations promote increased innovations in increasing food production
- Poverty and hunger are not the result of food shortages but unequal distribution of available resources.
- It is impossible to predict the future
- In comparing Malthus’s theory to actual world food production and population growth during the past half-century, the principle difference is that
- Actual food production has been much higher than Malthus predicted
- Malthus’s theory predicted much higher food production than has actually occurred
- Actual population growth has been much higher than Malthus predicted
- Malthus’s theory predicted much higher population growth than has actually occurred
- Population increased geometrically while food production increased arithmetically
- Contemporary geographers who accept Malthus’s basic premise, but believe population growth may actually be worse than Malthus predicted are called ______.
- What severe problem does Japan face as a result of its population structure?
- A shortage of workers
- Too many immigrants
- Not enough women in the work force
- Rising Crude Birth Rates
- Rising Natural Increase Rate
- All of the following characteristics are true of Stage 5 countries EXCEPT:
- Low CBR
- Increasing CDR
- Negative NIR
- Too few women in their childbearing years
- Rising TFR
- The primary factor in the difference between the population projections of Japan and the United States is ______.
- What are the 2 controversial anti-natalist policies used to lower birth rates in India and China respectively?
- ______
- ______
EXTRA CREDIT:
- Most Stage 5 countries are found in what geographic region of the world? ______.
Ch. 2 Key Issue #4 Quiz
- Overpopulation is equated with areas:
- of low death rates
- of imbalanced fertility rates and dependency ratios
- with a continuing imbalance between numbers of people and carrying capacity
- in the first stage of the demographic transition cycle with high fertility rates
- of high birth rates
- In his theories, Malthus failed to recognize:
- the discovery of new inhabitable regions
- war and diseases
- population is limited by the availability of resources
- changes in human dietary patterns
- changes in technology
- The global population explosion after World War II reflected the effects of:
- the heavy death toll during the war with fewer births occurring
- massive industrialization attempts in both developing and developed countries
- the return of thousands of military men to their families from the war
- drastically reduced death rates in developing countries without simultaneous and compensating reductions in births
- government policies in Europe attempting to repopulate the war-torn countries
- The most lethal epidemic in recent years has been
- Avian flu
- AIDS
- Malaria
- Cholera
- SARS
- In which stage of the epidemiological transition do countries experience declining rates of death caused by Cholera, Dysentery, Tuberculosis and other infectious pandemics?
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3
- Stage 4
- Stage 5
- In which stage of the epidemiological transition do countries experience a shift from infectious diseases to degenerative diseases as the major cause of death?
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3
- Stage 4
- Stage 5
- A possible Stage 5 epidemiological transition is the stage of
- Pestilence and famine
- Receding pandemics
- Degenerative and human created diseases
- Delayed degenerative diseases
- Reemergence of infectious and parasitic diseases