3.9 Demographic Transition Model Quiz Study Guide

reduced birth rates

What is most typically associated with the transition from a rural to an urbanized society?

Stage 1

In a certain country, the birth rate is high, the death rate is high, and there are many children that are part of the workforce. The country is most likely in what stages of the demographic transition?

Stage 2

During which stage of the demographic transition shown below does a population begin to experience an explosive increase in growth?

_______ phase

The rate of population growth starts to slow down at which phase in the demographic transition model?

Death Rate

In a human population undergoing the demographic transition, what generally decreases first?

Infant mortality and child mortality

What is most likely the primary cause of high death rates in phase I?

stage 1 and 4

Zero population growth is associated with what phase(s)?

a country is an industrial change in demographic transition.

A small developing country with negligible rates of immigration and emigration is going through a demographic change. Thirty years ago the crude birth rate was 44 per thousand per year and the crude death rate was 17 per thousand per year. Now the crude birth rate is 16 thousand per year and the crude death rate is 5 per thousand per year. What phase is it in?

Stage 1

Which stage has both high birth rates and high death rates but low overall population growth in part from high incidences of disease and famine?

Stage 2

Which stage has high birth rates and rapidly decreasing death rates as a result of improved access to healthcare?

Stage 4

Which stage of the demographic transition has birth and death rates that are approximately equal, low death rates influenced by improvements in health care and food production, and a stable or declining population?

Stage 2

As a country goes through the demographic transition, the greatest rate of population growth takes place during which phase?