The activity of measuring and explaining the size of populations is known as___________________?

A. Malthusianism
B. Demography
C. Forecasting
D. Official statistics

What was the system of forced racial segregation in South Africa known as ____________?

A. Apartheid
B. Ethnic cleansing
C. Multiculturalism
D. Assimilation

Demographic Transition exhibits_____________?

A. High birth rate and low death rate in its first phase
B. High death rate and low birth rate in its first phase
C. High birth rate and high death rate in its first phase
D. None of these

_______ is the term for the science dealing with the size, distribution composition and the changes in population ?

A. Demography
B. Ecology
C. Popology
D. Stratification

The _______ is the number of deaths per 1000 inhabitants in specific age group ?

A. Crude death rate
B. Age-specific death rate
C. Infant mortality rate
D. Targeted mortality rate

Our demographic situation provides us with an extraordinary opportunity we can_____________?

A. Educate and use this resource
B. Send educated abroad
C. Both a and b
D. None of these

The systematic widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants are called______________?

A. Deindustrialization
B. Downsizing
C. Post industrialization
D. “banana time”

Demographers who once believed that the U.S population would stabilize between 290 and 300 million people now believe that it will stabilize at around 390 million people because its________________?

A. Overall birth-rate will increase significantly in the early part of the new century
B. Life expectancy at birth will shortly increase to nearly 100 years of age
C. Immigration rate is expected to remain high
D. All of the above

Which country is currently experiencing a negative birth-rate ?

A. China
B. Bangladesh
C. Iran
D. Tunisia

The demographic transition is social trend that involves____________?

A. A reduction in population size caused by a higher rate of emigration than immigration
B. A change in the principal causes of death and disease since industrialization
C. Increased birth and death rates resulting in a relatively young population
D. A decline in the birth rate greater life expectancy and an ageing population