Question: The demographic transition refers to_____?

• 1. an increase in the birth rate
• 2. a change in the ratio of births to deaths
• 3. an increase in the death rate
• 4. an exponential growth in population

Question: Economic growth will keep pace with population growth only if there is_____?

• 1. Motivation to achieve
• 2. Available acreage
• 3. Improved technology
• 4. All of these

Question: Overpopulation is also one of the major causes of_____?

• 1. Inflation
• 2. unemployment
• 3. Poverty
• 4. All of the above

Question: A country becomes overpopulated when____?

• 1. Its resources fail to cope with its requirement
• 2. Its population exceeds set limit
• 3. Its population exceeds set unlimit
• 4. All of these

Question: Our demographic situation provides us with an extraordinary opportunity we can___?

• 1. educate and use this resource
• 2. Send educated abroad
• 3. both a and b
• 4. None

Question: For Thomas Robert Malthus the appropriate way to control the population was to______?

• 1. use artificial means of birth control
• 2. pass legislation prohibiting families from having more than one child
• 3. postpone marriage
• 4. All of these

Question: The demographic transition is social trend that involves____?

• 1. increased birth and death rates resulting in a relatively young population
• 2. a decline in the birth rate greater life expectancy and an ageing population
• 3. a change in the principal causes of death and disease since industrialization
• 4. None of these

Question: The activity of measuring and explaining the size of populations is known as______?

• 1. forecasting
• 2. malthusianism
• 3. official statistics
• 4. demography

Question: What was the system of forced racial segregation in South Africa known as ______?

• 1. ethnic cleansing
• 2. multiculturalism
• 3. apartheid
• 4. assimilation

Question: Demographic Transition exhibits_____________?

• 1. High birth rate and low death rate in its first phase
• 2. High birth rate and high death rate in its first phase
• 3. High death rate and low birth rate in its first phase
• 4. All of these