Unit 1: Population

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

• the natural increase rate is larger every year.

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

• people are uniformly distributed across Earth.

Geographers define overpopulation as

• oo many people in the world.

• too many people in a region.

• too many people compared to environmental capacity.

Human beings avoid all but which of these regions?

• cold lands.

• high lands.

• warm lands.

• dry lands.

The world's most populous country is

• China

• India

• United States

• Nigeria

Which of the following is not one of the world's largest population concentrations?

• Europe

• Southeast Asia

• South Asia

• North America

A country with a high physiological density has

• a lot of people.

• a lot of people for every unit of farmland.

• a lot of farmers per every unit of farmland.

• a lot of farmland

The most common measure of density, the number of people per area of land, is known as ________ density.

• Arithmetic Density

• Geometricl Density

• Arable Density

• Agricultural Density

Land suited for agriculture is called

• Agricultural density

• Arithmetic density

• Arable land

• Physiological Density

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

• high physiological density.

• low physiological density.

• high agricultural density

• low agricultural density.

Wealthier countries have lower values than poorer countries for all but which demographic measure?

• life expectancy

• natural increase rate

• crude birth rate

• total fertility rate