Practice Quiz: Population

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1. The number of children which is biologically possible for a woman to produce.

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2. The number of years a newborn in a particular society can expect to live. Also refers to the number of further years which people at any given age can, on average, expect to live.

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3. The thesis that many Third World countries cannot control major aspects of their economic life because of the dominance of industrialized societies.

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4. Refers to the contamination of the atmosphere by noxious substances

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5. The time it takes for a particular level of population to double in size.

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6. A stabilization of population level in industrial society once a certain level of economic prosperity has been reached.

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7. The movement of people out of their native land to other countries.

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8. The scientific study of human population--including size, growth, movement, density, and composition.

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9. The number of deaths that occur in a particular population in a specified period of time (usually a year).

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10. T. Robert Malthus' theory of population dynamics, according to which population increase inevitably comes up against the 'natural limits' of food supply. Population grows geometrically (1, 2, 4, 8, 16,. . .) while food supply grows arithmetically (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . .).

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