Economics Mcqs Practice Test

Question 1

The nuclear from of the family often appears in_________________?

Accepted Answer

B.	industrial societies

Question 2

The anthropologist George Murdock believes that the family _____________________?

Accepted Answer

B.	has functions fundamental to human life

Question 3

Which component of culture is central to human life______________?

Accepted Answer

C.	The normative

Question 4

The most important product of the social way of life is__________________?

Accepted Answer

C.	culture

Question 5

The largest number of statistical areas in the United States are______________?

Accepted Answer

B.	CMSAs

Question 6

Ecology is the discipline concerned with________________?

Accepted Answer

D.	the way living things relate and adjust to each other in a common habitat

Question 7

Environmental depletion is the term used to mean that________________?

Accepted Answer

B.	natural resources are decreasing as demand for them increase

Question 8

Which elements are affected by pollution ?

Accepted Answer

D.	all of the above

Question 9

The natural environment is_________________?

Accepted Answer

B.	the totality of natural conditions and resources that occur in a specific area

Question 10

Malthus suggested the following as means of birth control________________?

Accepted Answer

D.	all of the above

Question 11

The crude birthrate is________________?

Accepted Answer

A.	an important demographic concept

Question 12

Population density may be defined as_________________?

Accepted Answer

A.	the number of people to a land area

Question 13

The strongest urge that all living creatures feel is to__________________?

Accepted Answer

D.	reproduce themselves

Question 14

In Africa many children are_________________?

Accepted Answer

B.	social security for the future of the parents

Question 15

Which nation state has reached zero population growth ?

Accepted Answer

C.	the United States

Question 16

Chemical pesticides________________?

Accepted Answer

D.	can be toxic to other forms of life

Question 17

Overpopulation can result in________________?

Accepted Answer

B.	environmental damage

Question 18

The relationship of organisms to their environments is called________________?

Accepted Answer

C.	ecological

Question 19

Gentrification is the trend of__________________?

Accepted Answer

B.	middle class professionals renovating old city housing and using them as

Question 20

The model in urban ecology that stresses distance of residence from central business based on social class is the_________________?

Accepted Answer

B.	concentric zone model