AP Human Geography- Unit 2: Population and Migration

Explain Thomas Malthus's population theory.

• He concluded that the world's population increase was higher than the development of food supplies.
• He concluded that crude birth rates must balance crude death rates.
• He concluded that population increased arithmetically while food production increased linguistically.
• He concluded that population growth was outpacing available resources in every country, according to algebraic calculations.

A crude birth rate of approximately 10 per 1,000 is typical of a country in which stage of the demographic transition?

• stage 1
• stage 2
• stage 3
• stage 4

Where are people most likely not to live?

• places that are too hot
• places that are too cold 
• places that are too high in elevation
• All the answers are correct

What is the average number of births women bear in their lifetimes known as?

• total increase rate
• total fertility rate
• crude fertility rate
• crude birth rate

What demographic feature has the most significant future implications?

• that the less developed countries have the highest combined crude death rate
• that the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries
• that people are uniformly distributed across Earth
• that the natural increase rate is larger every year

In what stage of the demographic transition are most European countries?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What does an "upside down" population pyramid indicate?

• lots of children
  lots of children
• lots of middle age people
• lots of elderly/older people
• lots of teens

The ratio of people who are too young or too old to work compared to the working population is called the

• dependency ratio
• population pyramid
• interconnected ratio
• retirement ratio

The annual worldwide natural increase rate is

• 1.2%
• 12%
• 12 million
• 12 trillion

This caused a jump in the worlds' population in the late 1700's and helped send England into stage 2:

• the Renaissance

• the Industrial Revolution

• the Medical Revolution

• the Scientific Revolution