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461. Which of the following is an accurate statement about a population pyramid ?
- A. A population pyramid portrays the sex and age composition of a population
- B. A population pyramid must be based on absolute numbers.
- C. A population pyramid is of interest solely to academics.
- D. A population pyramid requires complex statistical calculation to understand the interrelationship between age and sex in a given population.
Explanation: A population pyramid is a graphical representation of a population's age and sex composition, usually displaying males and females on opposite sides. It may use percentages or absolute numbers, so option b is too restrictive.
Correct answer: A population pyramid portrays the sex and age composition of a population462. The ____ is the increase or decrease that results from immigration or emigration per 1000 member of the population in a given year ?
- A. emigration rate
- B. growth rate
- C. immigration rate
- D. net migration rate
Explanation: The net migration rate measures the balance of immigration and emigration in relation to the population, usually per 1,000 people per year. An immigration rate or emigration rate measures only one direction of movement.
Correct answer: net migration rate463. The crude birth rate______________?
- A. is the annual number of live births per 1000-woman age 15-44?
- B. Is the potential number of children that could be born if every woman of childbearing age bore all the children she possibly could?
- C. is the number of live births per 1000 members of a population in a given year
- D. enables researchers to see important difference among races. ethnic groups, classes, age groups, and other categories with in the population
Explanation: The crude birth rate counts live births in a year per 1,000 members of the total population. A rate based only on women aged 15 to 44 is the general fertility rate, not the crude birth rate.
Correct answer: is the number of live births per 1000 members of a population in a given year464. Which group of sociologists note that developers' bankers and other powerful real estate interests view housing as an investment and are primarily concerned with maximizing profit not with solving social problems?
- A. urban ecologists
- B. new urban sociologist
- C. functionalists
- D. human ecologists
Explanation: New urban sociologists use a conflict-oriented analysis of housing, arguing that developers, banks, and real-estate interests treat housing as a source of profit. This contrasts with approaches that focus mainly on ecological adjustment or social stability.
Correct answer: new urban sociologist465. In which type of city does religion become fragmented and there is greater openness to new religious faiths ?
- A. preindustrial city
- B. industrial city
- C. postindustrial city
- D. edge cities
Explanation: Postindustrial cities tend to have greater cultural diversity, individual choice, and exposure to alternative beliefs, so established religious traditions become more fragmented. Preindustrial cities were generally more dominated by a single religious order.
Correct answer: postindustrial city466. Urbanization in preindustrial cities was restricted by_____________?
- A. reliance on animal power as a source of energy
- B. the high levels of surplus produced by the agricultural sector
- C. the ease of migration to the city
- D. all of the above
Explanation: Preindustrial cities were limited by dependence on animal and human power, which restricted transport, food supply, and the physical size of urban settlements. Agricultural surplus and easy migration would generally encourage, rather than restrict, urban growth.
Correct answer: reliance on animal power as a source of energy467. The first stage of the demographic transition is called the________________?
- A. Pre-transition stage
- B. transition stage
- C. post transition stage
- D. initiation stage
Explanation: The pre-transition stage has both high birth rates and high death rates, so population growth remains limited. It is also called the pre-industrial or high-stationary stage in demographic transition theory.
Correct answer: Pre-transition stage468. For Thomas Robert Malthus the appropriate way to control population was to_____________?
- A. use artificial means of birth control
- B. postpone marriage
- C. pass legislation prohibiting families from having more than one child
- D. do all of the above
Explanation: Malthus rejected artificial birth control and argued that population growth should be checked through preventive measures such as delaying marriage. He called postponement of marriage a preventive check on population.
Correct answer: postpone marriage469. GM crops are different from anything that has existed before because ______________?
- A. they are produced by techniques of cross-breeding
- B. they are capable of drastically improving agricultural yields
- C. they involve transplanting genes between different organisms
- D. they have become front-page stories in the news everyday
Explanation: GM crops are distinctive because genetic material can be transferred between different organisms, such as inserting a bacterial gene into a plant. Ordinary cross-breeding combines genes within compatible breeding populations rather than directly transplanting selected genes across species.
Correct answer: they involve transplanting genes between different organisms470. In the on-going climate change debates which of these groups is least likely to be identified as having an interest in overemphasizing the need for global action on climate change ?
- A. the media
- B. fossil fuel corporations
- C. academic climate change researchers
- D. countries such as the Maldives at risk of rising sea levels
Explanation: Fossil fuel corporations generally have an economic interest in minimizing or delaying strong climate action because it threatens their core business. The media, researchers, and highly vulnerable countries may instead have reasons to emphasize the risks, though their interests are not identical.
Correct answer: fossil fuel corporations