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GEOG 150 Practice Test
Stage 2 - ✔✔The highest natural increase rates are found in countries in which stage
of the demographic transition?
b. - ✔✔Thomas Malthus concluded that
a. population increased arithmetically while food production increased linguistically.
b. the world's rate of population increase was higher than the development of food
supplies.
c. so-called "moral restraint" was producing lower crude birth rates.
d. population growth was outpacing available resources in every country, according to
algebraic calculations.
e. crude birth rates must balance crude death rates.
d. - ✔✔Leading approaches to reducing birth rates emphasize the long-term benefits
of
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a. teaching people to become more active consumers.
b. school programs that ignore contraceptive techniques and teach "abstinence only."
c. improving men's educational attainment in conjunction with small loans to
businesses owned by men in small communities.
d. improving local economic conditions in conjunction with improving women's
educational attainment.
e. information about sexually transmitted diseases.
Total Fertility Rate - ✔✔What is the average number of births women bear in their
lifetimes?
b. - ✔✔Geographers might characterize as overpopulated a country where
a. there are too many people according to a standard economic measure of poverty.
b. the population numbers less than one million, but there is concern that the country's
natural resources are adequate for only half that number.
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c. the population numbers more than 100 million and there is concern about the finite
limits of natural resources, although the resources available in the country seem
adequate to that population.
d. the population numbers more than one million, and there is an average distribution
of population to resources.
e. All of these answer choices are correct.
a. - ✔✔Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that
a. both have low growth rates.
b. both have high dependency ratios.
c. both have low dependency ratios.
d. both have low life expectancies.
e. both have low death rates.
d. - ✔✔Physiological density is the number of
%
a. acres of farmland per the total area of a country.
b. farmers per area of farmland.
c. people per area of flat land.
d. people per area suitable for agriculture.
e. farm animals per area suitable for agriculture
a. - ✔✔Mexico's immigration policy
a. is complicated because Mexico favors migration to the U.S. but opposes migration
from its south.
b. is opposed to Mexicans migrating to the U.S. because they otherwise would
contribute to the economy at home.
c. welcomes migrants from other countries.
d. is flexible for most countries of origin but does not generally allow immigration from
the United States.
e. attempts to prevent any money from leaving the country.
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