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fbq8i · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

One important result of China's one child policy has been:

a. The skewing of the sex ratio in favor of boys.
b. The skewing of the sex ratio in favor of girls.
c. An increase in the speed with which people have migrated from rural to urban areas.
d. A new emphasis on increasing the population in rural areas relative to urban areas.
e. The total population of China has decreased slightly over the past 10 years.

Question 2

A critical problem for indigenous people has been that as world population increases:

a. The percentage of the world composed of indigenous people decreases.
b. Indigenous people are less able to make their voices heard in local and regional governments.
c. There is increased pressure on them to increase their family size and this often destabilizes their production system.
d. Land shortages have resulted in changes to traditional practices or, sometimes, the virtual disappearance of traditional livelihoods.
e. The problems of indigenous people matter less and less to others.