Demography and Population Concepts Quiz

A group of people who live in a specified geographic area

Fertility (births), mortality (deaths), migration

<p>The actual level of childbearing for an individual or a population</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The potential number of children who could be born if every woman reproduced at her maximum biological capacity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of live births per 1000 people in a population in a given year</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The incidence of death in a population</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of deaths per 1000 people in a population in a given year</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1000 live births in a given year</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An estimate of the average lifetime in years of people born in a specific year</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The movement of people from one geographic area to another for the purpose of changing residency</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of people living in a specific geographic area</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The physical location of people throughout a geographic area</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The movement of people into a geographic area to take up residency</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The movement of people out of a geographic area to take up residency elsewhere</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Factors that may draw voluntary immigrants into a nation, such as a demographic government, religious freedom, employment opportunities, or a more temperate climate</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Factors, such as political unrest, violence, war, famine, plagues, and natural disasters, that may encourage people to leave one area and relocate elsewhere</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The biological and social characteristics of a population, including age, sex, race, marital status, education, occupation, income, and size of household</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of males for every hundred females in a given population</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A graphic representation of the distribution of a population by sex and age</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The population, if left unchecked, would exceed the available food supply; the population would increase exponentially, while the food supply would increase only arithmetically</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Positive or preventive checks on population</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mortality risks, such as famine, disease, and war</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Limits to fertility</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A check on population where people should practice sexual abstinence before marriage and postpone marriage as long as possible in order to have only a few children</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is a consequence, not of overpopulation, but of the exploitation of workers by the owners of the means of production</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Earth is a dying planet with too many people and too little food, compounded by environmental degradation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The point at which no population increase occurs from year to year because the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which some societies have moved from high birth and death rates to relatively low birth and death rates as a result of technological development</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preindustrial societies, early industrialization, advanced industrialization and urbanization, postindustrialization</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A favorable physical environment, an advanced technology (for that era), a well-developed social organization</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rome; 650000</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of social relationships operating within given spatial boundaries or locations that provides people with a sense of identity and a feeling of belonging</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A society in which social relationships are based on personal bonds of friendship and kinship and on intergenerational stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Societies exhibiting impersonal and specialized relationships, with little long-term commitment to the group or consensus on values</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A simple division of labor and shared religious beliefs such as are found in small, agrarian societies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interdependence based on the elaborate division of labor found in large, urban societies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They examine the interrelations among the parts that make up the whole, therefore, in studying the growth of cities, they emphasize the life cycle of urban growth</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of the relationship between people and their physical environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A description of the process of urban growth that views the city as a series of circular areas or zones, each characterized by a different type of land use, that developed from a central core</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>The central business district and cultural center</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Houses formerly occupied by wealthy families are divided into rooms and rented to recent immigrants and poor persons</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Working-class residences and shops and ethnic enclaves</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Homes for affluent families and single-family residences of white-collar workers</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A ring of small cities and towns by persons who commute to the central city to work</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Invasion and succession</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which a new category of people or type of land use arrives in an area previously occupied by another group or type of land use</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which a new category of people or type of land use gradually predominates in an area formerly dominated by another group or activity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which members of the middle and upper-middle classes move into a central city area and renovate existing properties</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The significance of terrain and the importance of transportation routes in the layout of cities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Located along higher ground near lakes and rivers or along certain streets; either side of the wealthier neighborhoods; remaining space, bordering the central business area and industrial areas</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cities do not have one center from which all growth radiates, but rather have numerous centers of development based on specific urban needs or activities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Analysis that examines urban populations in terms of economic status, family status, and ethnic classification</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Urban areas are complex and expanding social systems in which growth patterns are based on advances in transportation and communication</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are the product of specific decisions made by members of the capitalist class and political elites</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The profits that industrialists, developers, bankers, and others make from buying, selling, and developing land and buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The utility of space, land, and buildings for everyday life, family life, and neighborhood life</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency of some neighborhoods, cities, or regions to grow and prosper whereas others stagnate and decline</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Subdivisions or neighborhoods surrounded by barriers such as walls, fences, gates, or earth banks covered with bushes, and shrubs, along with a secured entrance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prevailing ideologies of how women and men should think, feel, and act; how access to social positions and control of resources should be managed; and how relationships between women and men should be conducted</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A strongly gendered division of labor in the home, gender-segregated paid employment, and women's dependence on men's income</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The form of women's increasing dependence on paid work and the state for income and their decreasing emotional interdependence with men</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The distinctive social and psychological patterns of life typically found in the city</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Students, artists, writers, musicians, entertainers, and professionals who choose to live in the city because they want to be close to its cultural facilities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People who live in ethnically segregated neighborhoods, some are recent immigrants who feel most comfortable within their own group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Poor individuals with dim future prospects, they have very limited education and few, if any, other resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Urban dwellers who can find no escape from the city, including persons left behind by the process of invasion and succession, downwardly mobile individuals who have lost their former position in society, older persons who have nowhere else to go, and individuals addicted to alcohol or other drugs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A place where women, based on their sexual desirability and accessibility, are categorized as prostitutes, lesbians, temptresses, or virtuous women in need of protection</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Concentric zone model, sector model, multiple nuclei model</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Capitalism and urban growth, gender regimes in cities, global patterns of growth</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Simmel's view of city life; urbanism as a way of life, Gan's urban villagers, gender and city life</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Comprising the city or town proper and also the suburban fringe or thickly settled territory lying outside of but adjacent to the city boundaries</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interconnected urban areas that are centers of political, economic, and cultural activity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Small, sparsely settled areas that have a relatively homogeneous population of people who primarily engage in agriculture</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>High birth, high death</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>High birth, low death</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Low birth, low death</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Low birth, stable death</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Urban growth is influenced by capital investment decisions, class conflict, and government subsidy programs; at the global level, capitalism also influences the development of cities in core, peripheral, and semiperipheral nations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Perspectives focus on how people experience urban life; some analysts view the urban experience positively, while others believe that urban dwellers become insensitive to events and to people around them.</p> Signup and view all the answers