second week

Quiz

Fill in the Blanks 2*25=50 marks

1： Closely related to segmenting, sometimes indistinguishable in the literature, is the concept of _____________________。

2：We are polluting the atmosphere (producing problems such as global warming, acid rain, and holes in the ozone layer); the _____________________ (contaminating the fresh water supply, destroying coral reefs, and fishing out the ocean); and the _____________________ (degrading the land with toxic waste and permitting topsoil loss, desertification, and deforestation).

3: When we add this spatial element we are talking about geodemographics, geodemography, or _____________________, which is the analysis of demographic data that takes into account the location of the people being studied。

4: About _____________________ billion people have ever lived on this earth.

5: The five largest countries in the world account for nearly half the world’s population but only _____________________ percent of the world’s land surface.

6: Within these most populous 10 nations reside _____________________ percent of all people.

7: With _____________________ of all human beings, China dominates the map of the world drawn to scale according to population size.

8: Japan has the lowest level of mortality in the world, with a female life expectancy at birth of _____________________ years.

9: In the Roman Empire, the reigns of Julius and Augustus Caesar were marked by clearly _____________________ doctrines.

10: The Middle Ages in Europe, which followed the decline of Rome and its transformation from a pagan to a Christian society, were characterized by a combination of both _____________________ and antinatalist Christian doctrines.

11: This rise in trade, prompted at least in part by population growth, generated the doctrine of _____________________ among the new nation-states of Europe.

12: _____________________, a Londoner who is sometimes called the father of demography.

13: William Godwin believed that most of the problems of the poor were due not to overpopulation but to the inequities of the _____________________, especially greed and accumulation of property.

14: According to Malthus, the ultimate check to growth is lack of food which is the “__________________________________________”

15: Those who criticize Malthus’s insistence on the value of moral restraint, while accepting many of his other conclusions, are typically known as _____________________.

16: The basic _____________________ perspective is that each society at each point in history has its own law of population that determines the consequences of population growth. For capitalism, the consequences are overpopulation and poverty, whereas for _____________________, population growth is readily absorbed by the economy with no side effects.

17: The primary source of data on population size and distribution, as well as on demographic structure and characteristics, is the _____________________.

18: The major source of information on the population processes of births and deaths is the registration of _____________________, although in a few countries this task is accomplished by population registers.

19: At one extreme is the concept of the _____________________ population, which counts people who are in a given territory on the census day. At the other extreme is the _____________________ population, which represents people who legally “belong” to a given area in some way or another, regardless of whether they were there on the day of the census.

20: Nonsampling error includes _____________________ and _____________________.

Short Essay Questions (10 marks each)

Q.1: How everything is connected to geography? Elaborate your answer with at least three real life examples.

Q.2: What are the major events in history of world that has affected the growth in population? Write brief account for all these events.

Q.3: What is Coverage Error? How to measure it?

Q 4: Describe what you think might the typical day in the life of a person living in a world where death rates and birth rates were both very high. How did those demographic imperatives influence everyday life?

Q 5: Virtually all of the demographic surveys and surveillance systems administered in developing countries are paid for by governments in richer countries. What is the advantage to richer countries of helping less-rich countries to collect demographic data? What is the value to us in the twenty-first century of having an accurate demographic picture of earlier centuries?