Population And Development

A period of rapid population growth between a preindustrial stable population characterized by high birth and death rates and a later modern, stable population marked by low fertility and mortality is known as ?

A. demographic transition
B. population maturity
C. demobilizing population
D. birth-death transformation

Throughout most of humankind’s existence, population grew at a rate of …….. per year?

A. 10%
B. 0.002%
C. 2%
D. 0.5%

Which of the following is not a possible cost of high fertility rates and rapid population growth ?

A. increasing returns to natural resources with a direct impact on average food consumption
B. increased urbanization and congestion
C. a higher labor force growth rate and higher unemployment
D. a working population that must support a large number of dependents

About ……… of the World’s population lives in LDCs?

A. 80%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D. 35%

Malthus’s theory was that population ?

A. increased proportionally to economic growth
B. increased geometrically, outstripping food supply which grew arithmetically
C. increased stagnantly with food supply and economic development
D. increased disproportionately surpassing agricultural production

In 2000, China and India constituted about ……… of the world’s population?

A. 40%
B. 10%
C. 80%
D. 0.10%

Organized family-planning programs and the demand for birth control resulting from urbanization, modernization, economic development and increased education have contributed to ?

A. a decline in fertility
B. The demographic transition from stage 3 to stage 2
C. increases in the ratio of labor to capital
D. an increase in the dependency ratio

Julian simon ?

A. supported the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth for estimating technical change
B. assumed that population growth causes technological progress
C. used the second law of thermodynamics to assume that technological progress is costless
D. assumed the classical view of technological change 6

Prototypes of international agricultural research centers are the ?

I- international Center for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat (CIMMYT)
II- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
III- Synthetic Rubber Research Institute (SRRI)
IV- Center for International Agricultural production Control (CIAPC)

The goal of integrated pest management (IPT) is to?

A. reduce yield losses by pests while minimizing the negative effects of pest control
B. have year-round plantings of a single crop
C. undertake monoculture pest planning
D. encompass biological control through fertilizers