GEOGRAPHY GRADE 11 UNIT SEVEN – SMART ETHIO E-Learning

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UNIT SEVEN

1.

Which of the following demonstrates the temporal dynamics of the world population?

Higher births and lower deaths at the early stages

The stagnant population during the 1950s

Higher births and higher deaths in the 21st C

Stationary population due to lower birth and death rates in modern times

2.

At which stage of the demographic transition do parents have extended families (many children)?

1st stage

3rd stage

4th stage

2nd stage

5th stage

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4.

Which one is true about the worldwide digital divide?

One of its sources is the variation in knowhow and education

It makes no difference between individuals

Financial resource plays no role in making difference between countries

It mainly creates gaps between MDCs

5.

Which of the following is not the result of rapid population growth?

Better education improved health and sanitation

Extended urbanization (expansion of slums and squatter settlements)

Rapid environmental change and biodiversity alteration

Chronic poverty and malnutrition (food insecurity and water scarcity)

6.

What strategies should be designed to solve the challenges of rapid population change?

Promoting positive checks of population change

Ensuring pertinent investment in human capital development

Promoting births through incentives

Avoidance of sexual contact and stop giving birth

7.

Which of the following is not true?

Famine can be prevented with only the provision of food donation

Shifting cultivation commonly leads to the problem of deforestation

Droughts and famines are more disastrous in desert areas

Drought causes livestock death and famine in eastern Ethiopia