Population KIS reading quiz

One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that:

• the natural increase rate is larger every year.

• there are fewer people in the world now than at the peak of the 20th century.

• people are uniformly distributed across Earth.

• the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries.

The most populous country in the world is:

• China.

• India.

• Russia.

• Indonesia.

Two-thirds of the world's population is clustered in 4 regions. Which of the following is NOT one of these 4 regions?

• South Asia

• Southeast Asia

• Europe

• Sub-Saharan Africa

Most people live in cities in which of these regions?

• South Asia

• Southeast Asia

• Europe

• Sub-Saharan Africa

Human beings avoid all but which of these regions?

• Warm lands

• Dry lands

• High lands

• Wet lands

Relatively few people live at high elevation, but there are significant exceptions, especially in:

• Latin America.

• Eastern Europe.

• North America.

• East Asia.

Physiological density is the number of:

• acres of farmland.

• people per area suitable for agriculture.

• farmers per area of farmland.

• farm animals per area suitable for agriculture.

A country with a large amount of arable land and a small number of farmers will have:

• high agricultural density.

• low agricultural density.

• high arithmetic density.

• low physiological density.

Land suited for agriculture is called:

• arid land.

• arable land.

• population density.

• cultural landscape.

If the physiological density is much higher than the arithmetic density, then a country has:

• inefficient farmers.

• a large number of farmers.

• a small percentage of land suitable for agriculture.

• too many people for the available resources.