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Chapter 2: Population and Health
Chapter 2: Population and Health
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1
What is a pandemic?
disease that affects a high portion of a population
A health threat
A control of diseases that are prevalent among a population
Stage 1 of epidemiology transition
2
What was Malthus's theory concerned about?
The population will outgrow the available resources.
One day, a deadly disease will rise from overpopulation.
The population will outgrow the Earth’s land and spill over.
Patterson will move to Alaska and become a truck driver.
3
What is the significance of John Snow?
He is hottest character in Game of thrones <3
Geographer who discovered the hearth of cholera.
He cured both cholera and trachoma
The first one to have cholera.
4
What do neomalthusians believe?
They believe Thomas Malthus is Jesus Christ revived.
They believe that Thomas Malthus is a joke.
They believe in the frightening outcomes of Malthus's theory
They believe in the religion of Lingua Dingua
5
The annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age is called…
Crude death rate (CDR)
Life expectancy
Infant mortality rate (IMR)
Crude birth rate (CBR)
6
What is globalization?
The process of traveling the globe
the creation of McDonalds
the world's propaganda that the earth is a globe
interaction among people of different nations by trade
7
What is stage 3 of the epidemiologic transition?
Pestilence and famine
Degenerative disease
Degenerative cures
Receding pandemic
8
Why is the Malthusian Theory not seen right now?
cholera doesn't exist anymore
population has grown exponentially
population hasn't grown as rapidly
food production is greater than predicted
9
Which of the following defines the term Dependency ratio?
The measure of the number of deaths
# of people too young or old to work to in the working age
Avg. # of kids a woman will have during childbearing years
Number of males per 100 females
10
Based on this pyramid, what will happen to the population in the next years and why?
Decrease, bc not enough people give birth to replace them.
Increase, because of high number of workable people.
Decrease, because of Patterson’s existence.
Increase, because of number of people in their 20s is high.
11
Which of these terms is the percentage by which population grows in a year.
Crude birth rate
Doubling time
Population rate
Natural increase rate
12
What is the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic?
An epidemic is not limited and a pandemic is limited.
A pandemic is spread to people only in a SPECIFIC region.
A pandemic is not limited and an epidemic is limited.
A pandemic is contagious and the epidemic is not.
13
What are the four biggest population clusters?
Africa, Antartica, India, America
East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Europe
Indoeuropean, Sino-Tibetan, Uralic, Altaic
East Asia, Americas, Europe, Africa
14
What is an example of a stage 2 country?
Cape Verde
Japan
China
Germany
15
Japan…
Is slowly decreasing in population.
Is slowly dying of overpopulation.
Has alot of people at working age.
Allows immigrants to come in and add to the population.
16
What is demography?
study of maps and the art of creating maps
study of Mr. Patterson's back hair
study of statistics in people and how they affect population
study of the culture of the traditional tribes
17
According to the demographic transition, what is a possible outcome that will happen in stage 5
The birth rate will rise again.
The death rate will drop a lot.
The birth rate will drop below the death rate.
The population will start to drop.
18
How does stage 2 differ from stage 3?
S3’s birth rate decreases while S2’s birth rate is high.
S3’s death rate decreases while S2’s death rate rises.
S2’s death rate decreases while S3’s death rate rises.
S2’s birth rate decreases while S3’s birth rate is high.
19
What is ecumene?
human settlement occupied by earth
the portion of earth’s surface occupied by human settlement
where to hide during shelter
international investments between countries
20
Which area still has cholera outbreaks?
East Asia
Sub- Saharan Africa
East Europe
South Asia
21
How is a more developed country more developed than a less developed country?
More people in population
New technology, medical advancements
Happier people
More land
22
The US has a low crude birth rate, because?
Women are having too many babies
Women are in school more and have jobs
We have health care and birth control methods
They are a developing country
23
Which of the following descriptions best matches the population pyramid?
Latin American immigrants come to this area to make families
Students go to college here and make up a big population
Population is made of adults and minimal children or seniors
Seniors come here for good weather and retirement community
24
Which of the following are not reasons for possible stage 5 in the
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL
transition?
Evolution of disease
Increased connection
Poverty
Infant mortality
25
If country has the NIR of 1.2, What is the population doing?
Dying
Staying the same
Increasing
Decreasing
