1. Using our interactive population graphics, match each of the age-sex population pyramids (labeled A through F) with the appropriate description.
(Points : 1)
Potential Matches:
1 : a country at close to zero population growth (Norway 1992)
2 : a country with many temporary immigrant workers (Qatar 1986)
3 : a country that shows the demographic effects of World War II (Russia 1992)
4 : a country that has undergone a recent shift from high to low fertility (China 1990)
5 : a country with declining population (Italy 1991)
6 : a country with rapid population growth (Tanzania 1985)
Answer
: A (top left)
: B (top center)
: C (top right)
: D (bottom left)
: E (bottom center)
: F (bottom right)
Question 2. 2. This is the first of four questions based on the interactive India-demographics tool. These graphs allow you to visualize the future population of India, as it changes throughout the 21st Century, under a variety of scenarios regarding changing fertility rates. All the scenarios start in 2000 with the following conditions:
· a total population of 1.014 billion
· a total fertility rate of 3.4
· a crude birth rate of 26.4 per thousand
· a crude death rate of 8.9 per thousand
Based on these numbers, what was India's rate of natural increase (i.e., annual population growth excluding net migration) in 2005? Note that you don't need to actually use the linked website to answer this question, since all of the numbers you need to calculate an answer are included above. (Points : 1)
0.55%
0.95%
1.75%
2.40%
3.10%
Question 3. 3. This is the second question based on the interactive India-demographics tool. One way we might establish a baseline for comparing alternative scenarios is to assume that the starting conditions persist indefinitely into the future. To do this using our tool, set the "Final Total Fertility Rate" to 3.4.
You'll see from the graphs, that this effectively freezes India in the middle of its demographic transition--longer life expectancies and lower death rates than in the pre-modern era, but birth rates hovering at a relatively high 24 or 25 per thousand. If this were actually to happen, the model shows us that India would end the century with a population of more than 3.6 billion! In what year would India's population first eclipse the two billion mark, double its turn-of-the-century size? (Points : 1)
2020
2030
2040
2050
2060
Question 4. 4. This is the third question based on the interactive India-demographics tool. In the previous question we tested one extreme scenario: fixing India's fertility rate at present levels. The opposite extreme would involve a sudden drop in fertility to well below the modern replacement rate, as actually has happened in much of Europe and East Asia. To view this scenario, set the "Final Total Fertility Rate" to 1.5, and leave the "Years to Achieve Final TFR" at zero.
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1. 1. Using our interactive population graphics, match each of the
age-sex population pyramids (labeled A through F) with the
appropriate description.
(Points : 1)
Potential Matches:
1 : a country at close to zero population growth (Norway 1992)
2 : a country with many temporary immigrant workers (Qatar
1986)
3 : a country that shows the demographic effects of World War
II (Russia 1992)
4 : a country that has undergone a recent shift from high to low
fertility (China 1990)
5 : a country with declining population (Italy 1991)
6 : a country with rapid population growth (Tanzania 1985)
Answer
: A (top left)
: B (top center)
: C (top right)
: D (bottom left)
: E (bottom center)
: F (bottom right)
Question 2. 2. This is the first of four questions based on
the interactive India-demographics tool. These graphs allow you
to visualize the future population of India, as it changes
throughout the 21st Century, under a variety of scenarios
regarding changing fertility rates. All the scenarios start in 2000
with the following conditions:
· a total population of 1.014 billion
· a total fertility rate of 3.4
· a crude birth rate of 26.4 per thousand
2. · a crude death rate of 8.9 per thousand
Based on these numbers, what was India's rate of natural
increase (i.e., annual population growth excluding net
migration) in 2005? Note that you don't need to actually use the
linked website to answer this question, since all of the numbers
you need to calculate an answer are included above. (Points : 1)
0.55%
0.95%
1.75%
2.40%
3.10%
Question 3. 3. This is the second question based on
the interactive India-demographics tool. One way we might
establish a baseline for comparing alternative scenarios is to
assume that the starting conditions persist indefinitely into the
future. To do this using our tool, set the "Final Total Fertility
Rate" to 3.4.
You'll see from the graphs, that this effectively freezes India in
the middle of its demographic transition--longer life
expectancies and lower death rates than in the pre-modern era,
but birth rates hovering at a relatively high 24 or 25 per
thousand. If this were actually to happen, the model shows us
that India would end the century with a population of more than
3.6 billion! In what year would India's population first eclipse
the two billion mark, double its turn-of-the-century size?
(Points : 1)
2020
2030
2040
2050
2060
3. Question 4. 4. This is the third question based on the interactive
India-demographics tool. In the previous question we tested one
extreme scenario: fixing India's fertility rate at present levels.
The opposite extreme would involve a sudden drop in fertility
to well below the modern replacement rate, as actually has
happened in much of Europe and East Asia. To view this
scenario, set the "Final Total Fertility Rate" to 1.5, and leave
the "Years to Achieve Final TFR" at zero.
You'll see from the graphs that, even under this extreme
scenario, demographic momentum would keep India's young
population growing for another couple of decades. Only after
2030, would the large bulge of today's already-born young
cohort make its way through the system, with much smaller-in-
number future generations taking their place. Eventually, then, a
long-term TFR of only 1.5 would lead to population decline in
India. Under this scenario, what does our model predict as
India's approximate population in 2100? (Points : 1)
310 million -- about the size of the USA today
500 million -- a little less than half the size of India today
1.1 billion -- about the same size as India at the start of the
century
1.5 billion -- even with several decades of population
decline, growth earlier in the century still would make India
bigger in 2100 than it was in 2000
2.0 billion -- demographic momentum at the beginning of
the century is so great, that even with the later shift to below-
replacement fertility, India still would end the century twice as
large as it started
Question 5. 5. This is the final question based on the interactive
India-demographics tool. Since India's fertility rate actually has
fallen already to 2.6, it seems reasonable to expect it to reach
the replacement rate in the near future. While the modern
replacement rate is generally said to be 2.1, set the "Final Total
4. Fertility Rate" to 2.4, which is the replacement rate our model
has built in (based on India's currently higher-than-average
rates of child mortality.) Then, set "Years to Achieve Final
TFR" to 25.
This is probably the most likely scenario, with India reaching
the final, zero-population-growth stage of the Demographic
Transition around the year 2075. At approximately what size
would India's population stabilize under this scenario? (Points :
1)
1.3 billion
1.6 billion
1.9 billion
2.2 billion
2.5 billion
Question 6. 6. This is the first of three questions based on the
PRB's interactive map and tables from its 2013 World
Population Data Sheet.
As the world completes its demographic transition this century,
the rapid population growth that is still to come will be
concentrated, overwhelmingly, in Africa. With but a few
exceptions, such as Iraq and Yemen, all of the countries
expected to more than double their current size by 2050 are
African. There is a great deal of variety within Africa, however,
as you would expect for any large region. Which one or more
African subregions are not expected to double their population
between 2013 and 2050? (Points : 1)
Northern Africa
Western Africa
Eastern Africa
Middle Africa
Southern Africa
5. Question 7. 7. This is the second of three questions based on the
PRB's interactive map and tables from its 2013 World
Population Data Sheet.
The world's lowest fertility rates are generally found today in
Europe and East Asia. As a result, many governments in these
regions are worried about the economic "dependency" crises
that their rapidly aging populations threaten to create. Which of
the following pairs of countries in those regions can be least
worried about such issues because their fertility rates today are
at or near the modern replacement rate, rather than significantly
below it? (Points : 1)
Taiwan and South Korea
Iceland and France
Hungary and Slovakia
Germany and Spain
Lithuania and Latvia
Question 8. 8. This is the third of three questions based on the
PRB's interactive map and tables from its 2013 World
Population Data Sheet.
Countries with the highest fertility rates also tend to be the
countries with the lowest life expectancies and the lowest
average personal income levels. There are several ways we
might explain such correlations. For example, we might see this
as evidence that high fertility functions as a strategy to deal
with poverty and/or high levels of child mortality.
Alternatively, we might instead argue that low incomes and high
rates of mortality indicate a "less developed" society in which
women are less likely to be able to access, and be socially
empowered to use, reliable modern contraception.
The true explanation for high fertility likely varies greatly from
6. place to place. This is especially true for higher-fertility
countries that do not fit the usual pattern. Which of the
following countries, for example, has relatively high fertility
(3.0 or above), despite its relatively high level of personal
income ($20,000 or above) and low infant mortality rate (less
than 10 per thousand)? (Points : 1)
Haiti
Chile
Uganda
Austria
Israel
Question 9. 9. A theme discussed by both Bret Wallach in his
chapter on "Cities Abroad" (21) and Harm de Blij in his chapter
on "Power and the City" (8) is the intense poverty and squalor
of fast-growing megacities. Which of the following cities is not
a good example of this phenomenon, thanks in part to a well-
ordered national government--perhaps too well-ordered--that
has limited the chaotic consequences of the "disorderly growth"
the two authors discuss? (Points : 1)
Lagos
Sao Paulo
Kolkata
Singapore
Cairo
Question 10. 10. Rather than by mosquitoes or biting flies,
which of the following infectious diseases afflicting people in
tropical latitudes is acquired by swimming, working, or bathing
in infected waters? (Points : 1)
malaria
dengue fever
schistosomiasis (bilharzia)
yellow fever
7. onchocerciasis (river blindness)
Question 11. 11. In the final part of his book, David Christian
outlines numerous changes, developments, and transformations
that have (so far) characterized our "modern" era. Without
getting truly pessimistic about what lies ahead for human
society, Christian does point to two features of modern life that
might threaten our world in the future. They are: (Points : 1)
global imperialism and the primacy of western Europe
nationalism and more complex forms of social-economic
regulation
revival of traditional religions and transformed gender
relations
decline of village life and the rise of large cities
increasing global inequality and environmental strains
Question 12. 12. Like the geographer's regionalization, the
historian's periodization is a helpful, almost essential,
organizing tool that nonetheless "does violence to the complex
reality of the past". Thus, in order to use this tool effectively,
we need to be aware of the reasoning behind a particular
periodization scheme and not simply take it for granted. In his
book, how does David Christian define the world's "modern"
period? (Points : 1)
the counterpoint, in a simple two-part scheme, to a single
"traditional" era that came before it
the era in which industrial technologies transformed most
societies throughout the world
the era initiated by an agricultural revolution which
generally shifted human subsistence way from foraging to
farming and herding
the final stage of a five-part story of decline from the
original heights of a "Golden" age in the distant past
8. Question 13. 13. Which of the following was characteristic of
the pre-modern demographic system (i.e., before the
Demographic Transition)? (Points : 1)
life expectancies over 65 years
crude death rates under 15 per thousand
epidemic outbreaks of infectious bacterial and viral
diseases that repeatedly decimated the population
total fertility rates less than 2
more people living in cities than in rural areas
Question 14. 14. In the early sections of chapter 12, Wallach
describes part of the global commodity chain that was
embedded in the classic Ford and GM automobiles of the early
20th Century. Match each of the following links in that chain to
its corresponding geographic location.
(Points : 1)
Potential Matches:
1 : central Arizona
2 : Malaysia, Liberia, and Brazil
3 : Pittsburgh, PA; Gary, IN; Dearborn, MI; Cleveland, OH
4 : northern Minnesota
5 : Detroit, MI (including Flint and Highland Park)
Answer
: steel manufacture
: final assembly of finished automobiles
: iron ore
: rubber
: cotton
Question 15. 15. Which one of the following innovations
associated with modern manufacturing does Wallach associate