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1
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  1. The term demography has Greek linguistic roots meaning “people” and “study of.”
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TRUE

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  1. Between 1910 and 2010 the world’s population increased from 2 to 7 billion.
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TRUE

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  1. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the percent of the U.S. population that was foreign born was considerably less than it was at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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TRUE

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  1. The fact that demography is connected to nearly everything means that demography determines
    nearly everything.
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FALSE

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  1. All of the future growth in the world is expected to show up in cities.
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TRUE

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  1. A youth bulge inevitably leads to conflict in human populations.
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FALSE

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  1. Globalization has been spurred on by the global decline in death rates after World War II.
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TRUE

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  1. The crime rate is associated with the age structure because young men are most apt to commit crimes.
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TRUE

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  1. Life insurance companies and pension funds both make more money the longer that their
    customers live.
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FALSE

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  1. The oppression of women in a society will likely be associated with an unfavorable demographic profile for that country
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TRUE

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  1. The Agricultural Revolution beginning 10,000 years ago led to a growth in population.
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TRUE

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12
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  1. The United Nations projects that the population of the world will double again over the next 40
    years.
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FASLE

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  1. Declining mortality, not rising fertility, is the cause of the “population explosion.”
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TRUE

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  1. The least developed countries in the world are growing faster than the less developed or more
    developed nations.
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FALSE

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  1. The majority of people ever born are alive at this moment.
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FALSE

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  1. Nearly 4 in 10 humans live either in China or on the Indian subcontinent.
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TRUE

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17
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  1. India’s demography is so diverse that some of its southern states actually have fertility levels
    that are below replacement
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TRUE

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  1. The drop in fertility in China is largely a result of its one-child policy.
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FALSE

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  1. China may be the first country in demographic history to grow old before it grows rich.
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TRUE

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  1. Fertility is so low in Japan that it seems to have its own “one-child policy.”
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TRUE

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  1. Growth rates in the Roman Empire were lower than they might have been because of tolerance
    for polygamy, divorce, abortion, and infanticide
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TRUE

22
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  1. The doctrine of mercantilism maintained that the more people a nation had, the more it could
    produce, and thus the wealthier it would be.
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TRUE

23
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  1. It is likely that if the French Revolution had not occurred, Malthus’s book on population would
    never have been published
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TRUE

24
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  1. Malthus was not a firm believer in human progress
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TRUE

25
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  1. Neo-Malthusians are the people who influenced Darwin’s ideas about evolution.
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FALSE

26
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  1. Malthus and Marx agreed on the causes of population growth, but not on the consequences.
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TRUE

27
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  1. Marx’s denial of the potential for population problems in a socialist society was proven correct
    by what later happened in Russia and China.
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TRUE

28
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  1. Demographic transition theory relates the different timing in mortality and fertility declines to
    the interstitial growth in population.
A

TRUE

29
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  1. Two key concepts added during the reformulation of the demographic transition theory were
    secularization and diffusion.
A

FALSE

30
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  1. A key element in the Easterlin hypothesis is that the relative size of cohorts can influence the
    way in which people and societies change over time.
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TRUE

31
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  1. The Domesday Book in England represents the first modern census.
A

FALSE

32
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  1. Germany has always had a population register rather than conducting a census.
A

FALSE

33
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  1. A census has been taken every 10 years in the United States since 1790.
A

TRUE

34
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  1. The most important source of potential error in most censuses is content error.
A

TRUE

35
Q
  1. The plague disappeared from Europe at about the time that the Industrial Revolution was getting
    started.
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TRUE

36
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  1. The available evidence suggests that the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 actually erupted
    first in the West African country of Sierra Leone.
A

TRUE

37
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  1. Medical advances were the main reason for the decline of mortality in Europe and the United
    States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
A

FALSE

38
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  1. Life expectancy in the United States is now twice what it was 150 years ago.
A

TRUE

39
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  1. Life expectancy in Russia is now significantly higher than it was 30 years ago.
A

FALSE

40
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  1. Life expectancy and life span both refer to the highest age to which humans can expect to live.
A

FALSE

41
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  1. The finding that your initials might somehow affect your life expectancy offers evidence of
    possible psychological influences on mortality.
A

TRUE

42
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  1. Given the current world averages, an infant mortality rate of 50 would be considered low.
A

FALSE

43
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  1. In human and many non-human animal populations, females have a biological survival
    advantage over men.
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TRUE

44
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  1. The crude death rate is called “crude” because it does not take into account the age and sex
    distribution of the population.
A

TRUE

45
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  1. Hutterite women in the United States in the 1930s averaged 11 live births per woman.
A

TRUE

46
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  1. The opportunity costs of children change over time as social circumstances change.
A

TRUE

47
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  1. The diffusion of ideas such as desired family size is enhanced by the existence of rigidly defined
    social strata.
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FALSE

48
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  1. Before there was birth control, there was child control.
A

TRUE

49
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  1. The later a woman marries, the more children she is likely to have.
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FALSE

50
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  1. Abortion rates tend to be highest when other methods of contraception are not readily available
    to women.
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TRUE

51
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  1. The United Kingdom is one of the few European countries in which fertility has recently risen
    above replacement level.
A

FALSE

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