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Which particle size of soil has the least pore space?
Sand
If a city of population 10,000 experiences 100 births, 40 deaths, 10 immigrants, and 30 emigrants in the course of a year, what is it's natural rate of natural population change?
0.6%
The infant mortality rate is determined by...?
the number of babies that die by their first birthday out of 1,000 that are born
Administration of ____________ will prevent the majority of blindness in developing countries in the world
vitamin A capsules
Which of the following is NOT one of the three types of new towns?
Suburban towns
Waste soil and rock removed during surface mining is called what after it has been removed from the Earth?
Spoil
The term malnutrition refers to people who...?
suffer from poor food quality, proteins and micro nutrients
Which of the following statements is false? Mark all that apply
constructing more roads reduces automobile travel and congestion
Plowing, breaking up, turning over and smoothing soil in fall to plant then in the spring is [blank?] tillage.
Conventional
All of the following are considered external costs of automobiles except...? Mark all that apply
the price of gasoline at present US rates
Which of the following statements is false? Mark all that apply
The shift in poverty is moving rapidly from the city to the county
The increase in the size of Earth's human population in the last century has been dramatic. Which of the following identifies two major contributors to this increase?
The industrial revolution and modern medicine
A baby boomer is least likely to...?
take voluntary early retirement
Which of the following are types of surface mining? Mark all that apply
- contour mining
- open-pit mining
- area strip mining
The most useful measure of fertility for projecting future population change is the...?
total fertility rate
The surface litter horizon is described by the letter?
O
The Earth zone with the most volume and mass is the....?
Mantle
Social factors affecting birth and fertility rates include...? mark all that apply
- average age at marriage
- Children being included in work force
- urbanization
- abortion issues
- Infant mortality rates
- average levels of education and affluence
- cost of raising children
- religion, tradition, and cultural norms
- Availability and reliability of birth control
- pension systems
- attitudes toward large families and birth control
In the demographic transition model, birth and death rates are high during what stage? Mark all that apply
the pre-industrial stage
Which of the following statements is FALSE? Mark all that apply
- oceanic crusts are thicker than the continental crust
- inner core is liquid, whereas the outer core is solid
The two most useful indicators of overall health in a country or region are...?
life expectancy and infant mortality rate
Which of the following is NOT one of the typical patterns of US urban structures? Mark all that apply
- Eco-city (low-impact) model
- Regional design model
- vertical model
- Satellite Model
In the demographic transition model, ZPG in a country is likely to occur during what stage? (mark all that apply)
- the post-industrial stage
- the pre-industrial stage
On your farmland in the Blue Ridge Mountains, you alternate rows of fast-growing legumes with apple trees. The local extension agent comes out and says "nice work on your __________"
Agroforestry
A sound registering 50 db A compared to one registering 30 db A means that the first sound is [BLANK?] times louder than the second sound.
100
Planting cover and cash crops in alternating rows that grow close together is called....?
strip cropping
The plants of the second green revolution have which of the following characteristics? Mark all that apply
- Fast growing, allowing multiple cropping
- High - yield
Assuming that that the birth rate is 40, the death rate is 5, the immigration rate is 2, and the infant mortality is 3 for Africa what would the annual rate of natural population change be?
3.5
If the global human population is about 6.1 billion and is growing at an annual rate of 1.35 percent. If world population were to grow at this rate for the next year approximately how many people would be added?
8 x 10^7
If you received an interest rate of 2.0% on your saving account of 20,000 dollars how many years would the exponential growth of the account take to double the existing amount? (round to the nearest whole year)
35
Use the soils triangle to determine the soil type for 28% sand 38 % clay 34% silt would be a...?
clay loam
Half of the calories that humans consume come from a combination of which of the following? Mark all that apply
- rice
- corn
- wheat
Which of the following statements is false? Mark all that apply
The shift in poverty is moving rapidly from the city to the county
When tectonic plates move in opposite but parallel directions it is called a...?
transform fault
Which of the following statements is false? Mark all that apply
constructing more roads reduces automobile travel and congestion
The most abundant type of rock is _____________
while the type that covers most of the Earth's land surface is
__________ .
igneous, sedimentary
