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HG Ch. 2 - Population
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1. Replacement rate, the number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration, requires a total fertility of
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1. Replacement rate, the number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration, requires a total fertility of
B) 2.1.
2. The number of European countries at or above replacement level is:
D) 0.
3. Countries with aging populations attempt to stimulate economic growth to lessen the effect of rising medical and retirement costs by
C) promoting immigration.
4. Not all countries with aging populations resort to immigration to offset economic problems. An example is:
B) Japan.
5. Almost everywhere on Earth, Total Fertility Rates (TFRs) are
B) falling.
6. In the Western Hemisphere, Total Fertility Rates fell below replacement level before 1989 in____ .
A) the United States, Canada, and Cuba.
7. The arithmetic density of population for a country is determined by dividing the total
D) population by the total area.
8. The problem with using arithmetic population density to investigate the population pattern of a country is that such a density figure does not take into consideration
B) internal clustering of people within the country.
9. It has been estimated that 98 percent of Egypt's population occupies only ___ percent of the country's total area.
C) 3
10. The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land is the
C) physiologic density.
