Chapter 2: Population and Health
1. The continent with the lowest population growth rate is
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A.	*Europe
B.	Asia
C.	Africa
D.	South 
E.	America

2. In the year 1800 there were approximately ________ people on Earth.
A.	*1 Billion
B.	300 million
C.	7 Billion
D.	1 million

3. The philosopher most likely to believe that population will eventually surpass food production was:
A.	*Malthus
B.	Boserup
C.	Marx
D.	Plato

4. The third most populated country on earth is:
A.	*The United States
B.	China
C.	India
D.	Indonesia

5. Which of the following countries has the highest birth rate?
A.	*Niger
B.	Canada
C.	Portugal
D.	Brazil

6. The Greeks called the habitable part of the Earth:
A.	*Ecumene
B.	Utopia
C.	Atlantis
D.	Baltika

7. The Ecological Fallacy is the idea that:
A.	*statistics generated at the scale of a country are applicable to an individual
B.	humans have no impact on the environment
C.	the Earth is flat
D.	the human population is decreasing

8. The period of time required for a population to double in size is:
A.	*doubling time
B.	natural increase rate
C.	demographic 
D.	transition
E.	cohort

9. We refer to a place as overpopulated when:
A.	*the available resources do not support the population
B.	the place is too crowded
C.	the place is poor
D.	the available resources are poorly distributed

10. Places with the highest Crude Birth Rates tend to be:
A.	*Poor
B.	Rich
C.	Catholic
D.	Developed