Choose the best answer for each multiple choice question. Usually, multiple choice questions include two or more answers that might appear to be correct but there is always one best answer.
1. Demography is the study of:
a. sustainability of the human population
b. urban versus rural life around the globe
c. size, composition, growth or decline and distribution of human populations
d. fertility and mortality of human populations
2. The three demographic variables associated with demography:
a. gender, race and social class
b. migration, immigration, and emigration patterns
c. social, global, and local stratification factors
d. fertility, mortality, and migration
3. Population pyramids consist of the:
a. age and sex a population
b. urban and rural percentage of the population
c. net migration
d. forecasted zero population growth
4. The current population pyramid of the world predicts that global population will:
a. decrease
b. increase
c. remain the same
d. makes no such predictions
5. Social change involves the alteration of:
a. society and culture
b. traditional societies to modern societies
c. social movements
d. technological consumption
6. Environmental sociology is the study of:
a. relationship between people and their social environments
b. relationship between rural and urban social environments
c. relationship between human societies and environment
d. relationship between pollution and economic factors
7. The study of how industrialization effects the physical environment is encompassed within:
a. demography
b. environmental sociology
c. urbanization
d. environmental justice
8. Public sociologists concerned with how pollution effects low income communities might be more likely to join:
a. sustainability movement
b. special interest groups
c. multinational corporations
d. environmental justice groups
9. High asthma rates in low income children who live near freeways and polluting factories may be referred to as:
a. environmental injustice
b. class conflict
c. demography
d. neocolonialism
10. Most environmental sociologists also view themselves as:
a. demographers
b. environmental activists
c. industrialists
d. pure sociologists
Critical Thinking Question
Is your thinking about future population trends more aligned with New Malthusians or Anti-Malthusians?
Answer
Read the section in Chapter 14 titled: "Who is Correct?"
Answers: 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. C 7. B 8. D 9. A 10. B
a. sustainability of the human population
b. urban versus rural life around the globe
c. size, composition, growth or decline and distribution of human populations
d. fertility and mortality of human populations
2. The three demographic variables associated with demography:
a. gender, race and social class
b. migration, immigration, and emigration patterns
c. social, global, and local stratification factors
d. fertility, mortality, and migration
3. Population pyramids consist of the:
a. age and sex a population
b. urban and rural percentage of the population
c. net migration
d. forecasted zero population growth
4. The current population pyramid of the world predicts that global population will:
a. decrease
b. increase
c. remain the same
d. makes no such predictions
5. Social change involves the alteration of:
a. society and culture
b. traditional societies to modern societies
c. social movements
d. technological consumption
6. Environmental sociology is the study of:
a. relationship between people and their social environments
b. relationship between rural and urban social environments
c. relationship between human societies and environment
d. relationship between pollution and economic factors
7. The study of how industrialization effects the physical environment is encompassed within:
a. demography
b. environmental sociology
c. urbanization
d. environmental justice
8. Public sociologists concerned with how pollution effects low income communities might be more likely to join:
a. sustainability movement
b. special interest groups
c. multinational corporations
d. environmental justice groups
9. High asthma rates in low income children who live near freeways and polluting factories may be referred to as:
a. environmental injustice
b. class conflict
c. demography
d. neocolonialism
10. Most environmental sociologists also view themselves as:
a. demographers
b. environmental activists
c. industrialists
d. pure sociologists
Critical Thinking Question
Is your thinking about future population trends more aligned with New Malthusians or Anti-Malthusians?
Answer
Read the section in Chapter 14 titled: "Who is Correct?"
Answers: 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. C 7. B 8. D 9. A 10. B
Scoring Guide:
10-9: Excellent
8-7: Very Good
6-5: You need more practice
4 and below: You need to re-read the text more carefully.
10-9: Excellent
8-7: Very Good
6-5: You need more practice
4 and below: You need to re-read the text more carefully.