Principles of Environmental Science

William P. Cunningham, University of Minnesota
Mary Ann Cunningham, Vassar College

Human Populations

True False Quiz


1	Human population grew slowly for the first 5000 years and began to grow rapidly after about AD 1600.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


2	Neo-Marxians believe that population problems can be solved by elimination of oppression and poverty through the use of social justice and technology.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	Eighty percent of the world population lives in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	Life expectancy is the number of deaths per thousand persons in any given year.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	A stationary population has more young people than a rapidly growing population.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	The social justice view to demographic transition states that rapidly increasing populations will never modernize but will continue to grow until catastrophe intervenes.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	Of the undeveloped regions of the world, Africa has the lowest use of contraception.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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