Where are the highest birth rates found today?
Correct answer A. The underdeveloped nations
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What did Thomas Malthus claim?
Correct answer A. Population increases in a geometric progression
Which of the following are stages of the demographic transition model?
Correct answer D. All of the above
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To what is the failure of rising expectations related?
Correct answer A. Dissatisfaction based on relative deprivation
If population growth in underdeveloped countries carried on unchecked, what would world population be in 2050?
Correct answer B. 10 billion
Why do birth rates remain high in developing countries?
Correct answer D. All of the above
At what stage of the demographic transition are the United States, Canada and Northern and Western Europe?
Correct answer C. In the third stage of the demographic transition
Which factors contribute to the urban crisis?
Correct answer D. All of the above
What is true of the urban crisis?
Correct answer A. Is intensified by the move of the middle class to the suburbs
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Which of these changes was NOT brought about by social organisation in the city?
Correct answer B. The class structure became more rigid
In developing countries, why are cities growing at the same time as rural areas?
Correct answer D. All of the above
What does the term ecological city refer to?
Correct answer A. The central city suburbs and satellites
What mainly caused the decline in the rural population?
Correct answer D. The continued improvements in agricultural methods
What is the emphasis on rural virtues based on?
Correct answer A. Is based on stereotypes
Roughly what percentage of the world’s people lived in cities in 2005?
Correct answer B. 49 percent
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Unlike the Chicago school, what do modern urban sociologists believe about cities?
Correct answer A. Stimulate creativity
On what is suburbanisation today mainly based?
Correct answer B. Social class
What does a metropolitan area consist of?
Correct answer D. A central city and surrounding suburbs and small towns
What forms when metropolitan areas begin to join up with one another?
Correct answer D. A megalopolis
What does a ghetto typically contain?
Correct answer C. A concentration of one racial group in an area