Which Catholic country has high birth rates?
Correct answer B. Mexico
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Miscellaneous Economics MCQs
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- Market 87
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- Budget Deficits And The Trade Balance 18
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- Monetary Union 10
What does a population pyramid show?
Correct answer B. Sex and age distribution within a population
What is the relationship between population and income?
Correct answer A. An increase in income produces a decline in fertility
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What is one of the perceived advantages of living in the suburbs?
Correct answer B. Greater safety from crime
How is urbanism defined?
Correct answer C. A set of attitudes and a way of life distinct from the rural
Why did people move from rural to city living?
Correct answer A. Of both a decrease in the need for farm workers and the fact that factories were located in cities
Replacing farmland with factories and suburbs is an example of which process?
Correct answer A. Urbanisation
On what is agriculture in industrial nations now based?
Correct answer D. Greater productivity of farms because of mechanisation
Which countertrend has been observable since the 1950s?
Correct answer D. Urban decentralisation
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Which urban trend resulted from the Industrial Revolution?
Correct answer B. Reduced family size
How did the US Census Bureau define a CMSA?
Correct answer D. Any locality with a population of one million people or more
Which condition is associated with urbanism?
Correct answer D. Increase in anomie and alienation
What was the growth of the suburbs based on?
Correct answer B. The development of automobile travel
Which problem do most American cities share?
Correct answer D. A reduced tax base
On what was the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) based?
Correct answer C. One or more counties containing at least one city of 50,000 residents or two cities totaling 50,000
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Which urban ecology model emphasises how far people live from the central business district according to their social class?
Correct answer B. Concentric zone model
What does the trend known as gentrification involve?
Correct answer A. Middle-class professionals renovating old city housing and using it as homes
What is the relationship between organisms and their environments called?
Correct answer B. Ecological
What can result from overpopulation?
Correct answer A. Environmental damage
Which statement about chemical pesticides is true?
Correct answer C. Can be toxic to other forms of life