High infant mortality rates:
a. promote high fertility.
b. have been continuing to rise in the United States.
c. are rising at about the same rate across the world.
d. have no impact on population growth.
e. none of the above
Question 2The distinguishing feature of the postindustrial society is
a. the ability to produce goods and services at revolutionary speeds.
b. the mass production of goods that allowed people to purchase more products than they needed.
c. the tremendous change of scale in the number of people a person knows or can know.
d. that a small percentage of the population can grow food needed to sustain society.
Question 3When we look at infant and child health from a global perspective, we find that child death rates:
a. are highest in the southern United States.
b. are not as alarming as UNICEF maintains.
c. are highest in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
d. have dropped dramatically in Africa.
e. occur only among the working classes.
Question 4Silicon chips, fiber optics, and satellites are technologies associated with
a. the agricultural revolution.
b. the domestication revolution.
c. the Industrial Revolution.
d. post-industrial societies.
Question 5Around the globe, rural lifestyles involving farming and herding:
a. tend to perpetuate high birthrates..
b. enable women to leave their homes for city work.
c. keep all persons at a starvation level of living.
d. help reduce the birthrates as there are not enough jobs for more children.
e. all of the above
Question 6is a form of domination in which one country imposes its political, economic, social, and cultural institutions on an indigenous population and the land the indigenous population occupies.
a. Mechanization
b. Colonialization
c. Industrialization
d. Revolution
Question 7China is home to _____ of the global elderly population.
a. less than 10
b. about 75
c. almost 50
d. 20
e. 90
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