The term life expectancy refers to:
a. how long any person will live
b. an individual's total life span
c. the number of years a newborn can expect to live
d. none of these
Question 2What ratio of the world's population lives in extreme poverty?
a. 1 out of 10
b. 1 out of 6
c. 1 out of 3
d. more than half
Question 3An important measure of a nation's health is the:
a. adult mortality rate
b. overall mortality rate
c. life span
d. infant mortality rate
Question 4The single most important factor in determining survival in any culture is
a. mortality rate
b. illiteracy rate
c. infant morality
d. income
Question 5The average number of children a woman would bear during the child bearing years is the:
a. graduated fertility rate
b. total birth rate
c. total fertility rate
d. infant birth rate
Question 6Which of the following is not used as a primary measure of social change when comparing nations?
a. mortality of children under the age of 5
b. the adult illiteracy rate
c. the child literacy rate
d. the incidence of income poverty
Question 7El Salvador and Nicaragua supply the United States with basic natural resources and labor but have not developed any industrial base of their own. In Imanuel Wallerstein's world system theory, they would be classified as:
a. developing nations
b. core nations
c. semiperipheral areas
d. peripheral areas
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