Chapter 11 Online Study Guide

Unfortunately our book is relatively out of date. Read page 242.  The most up to date population for the United States in our text book is 276 million. You should know what the US current population is. Use your phone or the internet to look up the current population of the United States (choose the closest answer).

• 250 million

• 310 million

• 285 million

• 415 million

Look at Figure 11-2 after reading page 239. The average crude birth rate for Africa is ________

• 8

• 38

• 21

• 17

On page 238 the chapter begins discussing population growth in Thailand. Thailand has gone from 3.2% in 1971 to only 1% in 200. There are several reasons for this impressive feat - which of the following is not a reason that Thailand has reduced their population growth rate.

• Support of family planning by the country's religous leaders (95% of Thais are Buddhist)

• The openness of the Thai people to new ideas

• An increasing economic role for women and advances in women's rights

• A very low literacy rate among women (10%)

Read section 11-3 again. According to the International Federation of the Red Cross, in 1998 an estimated ___ million international envrionmental refugees moved from one country to another because of problems such as drought, desertification, deforestation, soil erosion, and resource shortages.

• 5

• 25

• 67

• 44

Look at Figures 11-5, 11-6, and 11-7.  Although it does not say specifically which region of the world will experience the most growth between 2000-2025 you can infer this by carefully studying the figures. Of the four answer choices below which one includes first - the part of the world expected to contain over half the worlds population and secondly a part of the world that is supposed to decrease in population size.

• Europe - Africa

• Africa - Europe

• Oceania - Europe

• Asia - Europe

An annual natural increase rate of 1-3% may seem small, but such exponential growth rates lead to enormous increased in population size over a 100 - year period. For example - A population growing by 3% A YEAR WILL INCREASE ITS POPULATION ____-fold in a century!  From Section 11-1

• 111

• 84

• 66

• 15

On page 244. Which of the following is the single most important measure of a society's quality of life?

• Infant Mortality rate

• Life expectancy

• Growth rate

• Crude birth rate

Read section 11-2 before trying to answer this question.  Now that you understand what age structure diagrams are you can see that the bottom blue section represents the prereproductive part of the population, the yellow represents the reproductive part of the population and the orange represents the postreproductive part of the population. Based on the shape of the age structure diagram you can infer whether the population is shrinking or growing. What color would be the widest part of an age structure diagram if the population is decreasing?

• Blue

• Yellow

• Orange

• Panther Purple

Study figure 11-26 and then read the section starting on 252 - How can Economic Development Help Reduce Birth Rates. Write a paragraph explaining the hypothesis of population change known as the demographic transition. Include the four stages and what is going on in each stage with the population and the reasons why.