APHG U2 Population Review

This type of bar graph shows the age and gender composition of a population

• total fertility rate (TFR)

• demograph

• population pyramid

• rate of natural increase (RNI) triad

What is the proper way to depict age dependency ratio?

• as a ratio, working-age population : non-working-age population
• as a fraction, non-working-age population over working-age population
• as a ratio, non-working-age population : working-age population
• as a fraction, working-age population over non-working-age population

Which of the following sex ratios is closest to the natural sex ratio?

• Qatar: 102:100
• Signapore: 107:100
• Albania 101:100
• Bulgaria: 106:100

Which is a more accurate way to gauge population growth?

• total fertility rate (TFR)
• crude birth rate
• crude death rate
• demographic equations

Which is the best practical definition of food insecurity?

• Food prices fluctuate wildly so that I cannot depend on being able to get certain foods
• Someone could easily break in and steal my food supply!
• No money to buy healthy food, and if I did there isn't a place to get healthy food around here.
• The foods available to me are reasonably priced and healthy I just don't like the way they taste

Which of these is a push factor

• We have extensive petroleum reserves and the cost of gas is among the lowest in the world

• Soccer is incredibly popular here and there are frequently occurring opportunities to see world-class talent compete live

• We average over 250 sunny days per year

• We have been in a state of civil war since 2011

Which of the following is a pull factor?

• Unemployment is rampant here

• We have not had a free election here since 1992

• Shia Islam is widely practiced here and a Muslim can practice freely without fear of suppression, so long as they are Shia

• Conscription is law here so males can expect to serve in the military for a minimum of 2 years after completing secondary school

What country contributes more immigrants to the United States than any other?

• El Salvaor

• Syria

• Haiti

• Mexico

• Candada

Which of these would be most likely to study statistics of birth and death?

• a statistician

• a mortician

• a demographer

• a populographer

Which are needed to figure the demographic equation?

• natural increase + net migration

• natural increase + age dependency

• sex ratio + net migration

• total fertility rate + net migration