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Environment, Subsistence, and Demography MCQ

Environment, Subsistence, and Demography MCQ

1. The level of reproduction that maintains population at a steady state is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Zero Population Growth

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2. Subsistence Pattern is the means by which people obtain their _____ supply.

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Correct Answer: Food

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3. Regional Symbiosis is the pattern in which a particular society resides in an ecological habitat divided into different resource areas that become_____.

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Correct Answer: Interdependent

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4. Push factors are the conditions that lead people to _____specific territories.

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Correct Answer: Leave

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5. The incentives that lead people to move to other societies are known as_____

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Correct Answer: Pull Factors

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6. Pastoralists are groups whose subsistence activities are based on the care of _____animals.

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Correct Answer: Domesticated

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7. The total movement of a population into and out of a territory is known as Net Migration.

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Correct Answer: True

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8. The incidence of death in a society’s population is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Mortality

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9. Migration Rate is the rate at which people move _____ of a specific territory.

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Correct Answer: Both

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10. An environment that is suitable for intensive agriculture is known as Marginal Environment.

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Correct Answer: False

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11. The number of years an average person can expect to live is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Life Expectancy

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12. Infanticide is the deliberate abandonment or killing of infants _____

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Correct Answer: One year or younger

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13. Infant Mortality Rate is the number of babies per thousand births in any year who die before reaching the age of_____.

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Correct Answer: One

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14. Horticulture is a form of agriculture in which people use _____ technology to cultivate plants.

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Correct Answer: Both a and c

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15. Geronticide is the killing of _____ people.

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Correct Answer: Old

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16. The moving of people from one group to another area when their population begins to decrease is known as Fissioning.

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Correct Answer: False

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17. The number of births in a society is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Fertility

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18. The potential number of children that women in a society are capable of _____

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Correct Answer: Bearing

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19. Environmental Niche is a locale that contains _____ to which a species must adjust.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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20. Ecology is the study of living organisms in relationship to their_____.

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Correct Answer: Environment

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21. The period of time required for a population to double is known as Doubling Time.

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Correct Answer: True

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22. Demography is the study of population and its relationship to_____.

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Correct Answer: Society

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23. Demographic-Transition Theory is a model used to measure population trends within a society that assumes a close connection between _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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24. Crude Death Rate is the number of deaths in a given year for every _____people in a population.

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Correct Answer: 1000

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25. Crude Birth Rate is the number of live births in a given year for every _____ people in a population.

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Correct Answer: 1000

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26. Childhood Mortality Rate is the number of children who die before reaching the age of_____

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Correct Answer: Five

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27. The maximum population that a specific environment can support is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Carrying Capacity

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28. An area distinguished by a particular climate and certain types of plants and animals is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Biome

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29. How have humans managed to adapt to life in the diverse biomes of earth?

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Correct Answer: Culture

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30. Among modern high-energy cultures such as the Unites States, energy consumption per capita is ______ that of pre-industrial low-energy cultures.

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Correct Answer: Quadruple

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31. Which of the following words best describes the environments where modern-day foragers live?

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Correct Answer: Marginal

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32. If a society has achieved zero population growth, the fertility rate must be ______ births per woman.

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Correct Answer: 2.1

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33. In foraging societies, geronticide is common, even in times of abundance.

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Correct Answer: False

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34. Which of the following variables would be most interesting to an anthropologist describing the demographic characteristics of a population?

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Correct Answer: Migration rate

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35. Prolonged nursing of children among the Ju/hoansi San contributes to which of the following?

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Correct Answer: Low fertility rates

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36. How are chiefdoms of the Northwest Coast unique?

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Correct Answer: They subsist by hunting and gathering

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37. Pronatalist population policies are common in which of the following types of societies?

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Correct Answer: Agricultural

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38. Using time allocation analysis, Napoleon Chagnon learned that Yanomamö horticulturalists spend no more than ______ hours per day working in their gardens.

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Correct Answer: 3–4

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