Directions: Choose the best answer. Each question is worth 2.5 points. An employee who performs rescue or medical duties during an evacuation is known as an

What does the age-dependency ratio show us?

Ernest asks his realtor to show him houses in an affordable neighborhood with a good school district. Ernest’s realtor instead pushes Ernest to another neighborhood where residents tend to look more like Ernest. What the realtor is attempting to do is called:

What best encapsulates the U.S. distribution of the nation’s wealth?

Demographers look for what human population trends in societies?

When we have more debt (think student loans, credit cards, house and car notes, for example) than we do equity (land, paid off house, etc.), this is referred to as: 

In a town of 100 residents, the median income is $32,400. The modes are $29,200 and $34,700. The mean is $272,600. What is happening here?

As COVID-19 ran rampant, some Americans targeted people that they assumed were Chinese (many were of Asian descent but not Chinese, and many were Americans) to carry blame for the virus. This is an example of ________________, the act of treating people considered foreign with prejudiced attitudes.

Each of us has a different background. We grow up poor, working- or middle-class, or wealthy. Our parents can afford a private school and/or tutors, or they can’t. Our family can afford healthy food, or they can’t. Our parents can afford our college tuition, or they can’t. Finally, our parents can get us into an Ivy League school, or they can’t. All of these unique experiences impact our: 

According to Immanuel Wallerstein, middle-income countries that exploit poor nations when they can and try to compete with richer nations are called: