Population Trends MCQs
Population Trends MCQs
These Population Trends multiple-choice questions and their answers will help you strengthen your grip on the subject of Population Trends. You can prepare for an upcoming exam or job interview with these 20+ Population Trends MCQs.
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1: A ______ balance of old and young people is called Age structure
A. Age
B. Diet
C. Population’s
D. Physical
2: Set of people who were born during the same era and who face similar societal circumstances brought about by their shared position in the overall age structure of the population is called
A. Birth cohort
B. Cohort effect
C. Cohort
D. Birth study
3: Countermovement is a collective action designed to prevent or reverse changes sought or accomplished by an earlier social movement
A. True
B. False
4: Process by which beliefs, technology, customs, and other elements of culture spread from one group or society to another is called
A. Cultural diffusion
B. Non Cultural diffusion
C. Cultural effusion
D. None of above
5: Steady rise in Earth’s average temperature as a result of increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is called Global climate change
A. True
B. False
6: Coherent system of beliefs, values, and ideas is called Ideology
A. True
B. False
7: Society in which knowledge, the control of information, and service industries are more important elements of the economy than agriculture or manufacturing and production is called
A. Postindustrial society
B. Pre Industrial society
C. Industrial society
D. All of above
8: Reform movement is a ______ that seeks to change limited aspects of a society but does not seek to alter or replace major social institutions
A. Collective action
B. Non Collective action
C. Collective inaction
D. Non Collective inaction
9: Resource mobilization theory is a theory of non social movements that suggests that no social movement can exist unless it has an organized system for acquiring needed resources: money, labor, participants, legal aid, access to the media
A. True
B. False
10: Collective action that attempts to overthrow an entire social system and replace it with another is called
A. Revolutionary movement
B. Social movement
C. Non-Social movement
D. Non-Revolutionary movement
11: Continuous, large-scale, organized collective action motivated by the desire to enact, stop, or reverse change in some area of society is called Social movement
A. True
B. False
12: Which cohort came directly after the Baby Boomers?
A. Generation X
B. Millennials
C. Generation Y
D. Post-Boomer generation
13: Which term refers to a society’s balance of old and young people?
A. Cohort structure
B. Cohort effect
C. Age structure
D. Birth rate
14: Olivia, Kelsey, and Emma were born in 1990. They graduated high school in the same year, completed college within two years of each other, and entered the workforce around the same time. Sociologists refer to this is as ______.
A. Cohort effects
B. Period effects
C. Age structuring
D. Cohort homogeneity
15: Which two birth cohorts are similar in size?
A. The Baby Boomers and Generation X
B. Generation X and Generation N
C. Generation X and the Millennials
D. The Baby Boomers and the Millennials
16: The tendency of major historical events and social conditions to affect the distinctive shape and outlook of a cohort is called ______.
A. Cohort effect
B. Period effect
C. Age structure
D. Demography
17: One who studies population trends and characteristics is referred to as a ______.
A. Generationalist
B. Statistician
C. Demographer
D. Social scientist
18: The growing population of elderly Americans is referred to as ______.
A. The graying of America
B. A whitehead nation
C. Gerontology
D. Age distribution
19: As Baby Boomers age, which is likely to occur?
A. More children will be born in the U.S.
B. Institutions such as healthcare will be burdened.
C. Most will retire early and exit the workforce.
D. They will rely on their numerous children to provide care and support.
20: Because there is a “natural rate of reproduction,” economic and political forces have no effect on the birth rate.
A. True
B. False
21: A society’s age structure is likely to change over time.
A. True
B. False
22: When populations approach their carrying capacity, their resources ________.
A. Increase because populations are decreasing
B. Are not a concern as they are usually infinite in supply
C. Become more scarce as growth rate becomes zero
D. Decrease in supply
23: The 1994 cairo conference addressed the main issue of _____
A. Natural disasters
B. Political instability
C. Overpopulation
D. Men's rights
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