Question 1

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Question 1
Lacy is an environmental activist that teaches about _______, which is when contaminants are introduced into an environment (water, air, land) at levels that are damaging.

Option A
Global warming

Option B
E-waste

Option C
Climate change

Option D
Pollution

Question 2
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Question 2
What are the exurbs?

Option A
communities surrounding cities, typically close enough for a daily commute in, but far enough away to allow for more space than city living affords.

Option B
communities that coexist within a tri-state area.

Option C
communities that house young people looking for apartments close to where they go to school.

Option D
communities that exist outside the ring of suburbs and are typically populated by even wealthier families who want more space and have the resources to lengthen their commute.

Question 3
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Question 3
Bob is studying the specific population in Spain, Bob is studying the _____ in Spain.

Option A
Mortality rate

Option B
Democracy

Option C
Fertility rate

Option D
Demography

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Question 4
What are the suburbs?

Option A
communities that are in the country.

Option B
communities that coexist within a tri-state area.

Option C
communities surrounding cities, typically close enough for a daily commute in, but far enough away to allow for more space than city living affords.

Option D
communities that house the elderly.

Question 5
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Question 5
What is Sustainable Development?

Option A
a development strategy that looks at on the relationship between people and their built and natural physical environments.

Option B
when someone finally figures out their successful daily routine.

Option C
achieving development that occurs without depleting or damaging the natural environment.

Option D
the study of human life expectancy and related factors.

Question 6
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Question 6
A(n) __________ is defined as an individual who has been forced to leave his or her country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Option A
Hard Worker

Option B
Asylum-Seeker

Option C
Refugee

Option D
Internally Displaced Person

Question 7
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Question 7
Edward is extremely interested in studying the U.S. population. The best way for him to really understand the American population is by studying fertility, mortality, and migration. These are all components of _____.

Option A
Carrying Capacity

Option B
Demography

Option C
Population Pyramid

Option D
Population compaction

Question 8
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Question 8
Who came up with the Malthusian theory?

Option A
Garret Mardin

Option B
Gideon Sjoberg

Option C
Paul Ehrich

Option D
Thomas Malthus

Question 9
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Question 9
__________ are communities that exist outside the ring of suburbs and are typically populated by even wealthier families who want more space and have the resources to lengthen their commute.

Option A
Exurbs

Option B
Megalopolis

Option C
Metropolis

Option D
Suburbs

Question 10
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Question 10
Amanda works with high pressurized water and machines to recover gas and oil from shale by drilling down into the earth and directing a high-pressure mixture of water, sand, and proprietary chemicals into the rock. Her job is uses ______. ?

Option A
Sustainable development

Option B
Fracking

Option C
Demography

Option D
Urbanization

Question 11
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Question 11
John is studying how many people can live in a given area considering the amount of available resources. John is studying____.

Option A
Zero Population Growth

Option B
Malthusian Theory

Option C
Cornucopian Theory

Option D
Sex ratio

Question 12
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Question 12
The ____________ of a society is a measure of noting the number of people who die.

Option A
Population

Option B
Mortality Rate

Option C
Fertility Rate

Option D
Population Composition

Question 13
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Question 13
Changing fertility, mortality, and migration rates make up the total __________ __________, a snapshot of the demographic profile of a population.

Option A
Mortality Rate

Option B
Heart Rate

Option C
Population Composition

Option D
Density Composition

Question 14
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Question 14
Carrying Capacity represents:

Option A
how many people can live in a given area considering the amount of available resources.

Option B
how many people can live in an apartment building.

Option C
how many people can live in a given area regardless of the amount of available resources.

Option D
how many children can be carried in a school bus at a time.

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Question 15
Amanda calculates the ____ of Poland too see how many men there are to every one hundred women.

Option A
Fertility ratio

Option B
Demography

Option C
Sex ratio

Option D
Population pyramid

Question 16
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Question 16
The __________ suggests that future population growth will develop along a predictable four-stage model.

Option A
Cornucopian Theory

Option B
Refugee Theory

Option C
Urbanization Theory

Option D
Demographic Transition Theory

Question 17
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Question 17
To achieve development that occurs without depleting or damaging the natural environment is called __________.

Option A
Green building

Option B
Ecology

Option C
Sustainable Development

Option D
Gentrification

Question 18
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Question 18
Peter recently had to leave his apartment in Boston because rent was too high. His neighborhood has historically been considered the poorest part of Boston. Now it is renovated and becoming increasingly expensive as more and more affluent people move in. This is an example of _____.

Option A
Gentrification

Option B
The concentric zone model

Option C
Suburbification

Option D
Sustainable development

Question 19
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Question 19
What is White Flight defined as?

Option A
the migration of economically insecure families living in the suburbs.

Option B
a decision made by a group of white people to take a vacation by plane.

Option C
the migration of economically secure white people from racially mixed urban areas and toward the suburbs.

Option D
the migration of economically secure Hispanic people from racist communities towards the exurbs.

Question 20
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Question 20
Population Pyramid is defined as:

Option A
a picture of population distribution by gender.

Option B
a plot graph of population distribution by gender.

Option C
a line graph of population distribution by sex and age.

Option D
a picture of population distribution by sex and age.

Answer 1

Here are the answers to the questions based on the information provided:

Question 1: D. Pollution

Question 2: D. communities that exist outside the ring of suburbs and are typically populated by even wealthier families who want more space and have the resources to lengthen their commute.

Question 3: D. Demography

Question 4: C. communities surrounding cities, typically close enough for a daily commute in, but far enough away to allow for more space than city living affords.

Question 5: C. achieving development that occurs without depleting or damaging the natural environment.

Question 6: C. Refugee

Question 7: B. Demography

Question 8: D. Thomas Malthus

Question 9: A. Exurbs

Question 10: B. Fracking

Question 11: A. Zero Population Growth

Question 12: B. Mortality Rate

Question 13: C. Population Composition

Question 14: A. how many people can live in a given area considering the amount of available resources.

Question 15: C. Sex ratio

Question 16: D. Demographic Transition Theory

Question 17: C. Sustainable Development

Question 18: A. Gentrification

Question 19: C. the migration of economically secure white people from racially mixed urban areas and toward the suburbs.

Question 20: D. a picture of population distribution by sex and age.