The question
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________ Population growth, fertility and population policy (7 points)
(A) Define Define total fertility rate (TFR). [1 point]
Define means: Give the specific meaning of the term, in your own words, not an example of it.
(B) Identify Identify the TFR known as replacement-level fertility in a country where few children die. [1 point]
Identify means: Give the information asked for: a word or short phrase can earn the point, with no reasons needed.
(C) Explain Explain why a country’s population can keep growing for several decades after its TFR falls below replacement level. [1 point]
Explain means: Say how or why, with every link of the chain: a cause, then because or so, then its effect, tied to the place or data asked about.
(D) Describe Describe one pronatalist policy that a government has used. Name the country. [1 point]
Describe means: Give the relevant characteristics: what it is like, where and how much. A name alone earns nothing.
(E) Explain Explain one reason a pronatalist policy may have only a small effect on a country’s TFR. [1 point]
Explain means: Say how or why, with every link of the chain: a cause, then because or so, then its effect, tied to the place or data asked about.
(F) Compare Compare the goal of China’s one-child policy (1980 to 2015) with the goal of its three-child policy (2021). [1 point]
Compare means: Give a similarity or a difference and say it about both things, not one.
(G) Explain the degree Explain the degree to which a national TFR describes fertility in every region of a large country, such as India. [1 point]
Explain the degree means: State the degree first (to a high, moderate or low degree), then explain why with evidence.