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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
Question: The demographic equation is represented by the sum of:
  • 1. net migration and natural change
  • 2. natural change and crude birth rates.
  • 3. natural change and dependency ratios.
  • 4. natural change and crude birth rates.

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