Chapter 8 Multiple Choice Answers

8.4

Multiple-Choice Questions
1)

The human population is approximately ________.
A)

1.5 million
B)

6.5 million
C)

1.5 billion
D)

6.7 billion
E)

10 billion
Answer:

D
Diff: 1
Objective:

8.1 Scope of human population growth
2)

During which time period did the world's population more than double?
A)

1750–1800
B)

1800–1850
C)

1850–1900
D)

1900–1950
E)

1950–2000
Answer:

E
Diff: 2
Objective:

8.1 Scope of human population growth
3)

If a population roughly doubles in the course of 50 years, its growth rate would be close to ________%.
A)

1.5
B)

5
C)

10
D)

20
E)

25
Answer:

A
Diff: 2
Objective:

8.1 Scope of human population growth

4)

________ is the world's most populous nation, home to ________ of the people living on Earth.
A)

China; half
B)

China; one-fifth
C)

The United States; half
D)

The United States; one-fifth
E)

India; one-third
Answer:

B
Diff: 1
Objective:

8.3 Demography
5)

Which of the following is not one of the world's top five most populous nations?
A)

Vietnam
B)

United States
C)

Indonesia
D)

Brazil
E)

India
Answer:

A
Diff: 3
Objective:

8.3 Demography
6)

Replacement fertility ________.
A)

restores population size after a catastrophic event
B)

is a contraceptive technique
C)

is below 2 in Latin America and the Caribbean
D)

is below 2 in Africa
E)

is equal to 2.1 in stable populations
Answer:

E
Diff: 2
Objective:

8.3 Demography
7)

The 1994 Cairo, Egypt, conference was organized ________.
A)

by President Clinton to seek world funding for family‑planning initiatives
B)

to lower the world's population to preset targets by advocating the use of contraceptives
C)

to urge governments to better address social issues such as poverty and disease as potential sources of population problems
D)

to address the growing AIDS epidemic in Africa
E)

to reevaluate the effectiveness of China's one-child