Chapter 2 Key Issue 1 and 2

What is the Earth's current population?

• 7.6 billion

• 7.6 million

• 6.7 billion

• 6.7 million

Geographers may consider a country overpopulated if...

• There are too many people living in poverty

• The population is less than one million BUT the country only has enough resources for half that number

• The population is over 100 million BUT there are enough resources for everyone

• The population is more than one million

• The population is more than 100 million and migration adds another 1 million annually.

Which of the following locations is NOT considered a major world population cluster?

• East Asia

• South Asia

• Europe

• Southeast Asi

• Central Africa

The area of permanent human settlement on Earth is called the

• hot zone

• civilized world

• lithosphere

• ecumene

• sub-polar region

Arithmetic density is

• The total amount of land in a country

• The amount of land available for farming

• The amount of land available for people to build houses on

• The total number of people in a country

• The total number of objects in any given area.

The average number of births women bear over the course of their reproductive years is

• total birth rate

• crude birth rate

• natural increase rate

• total fertility rate

• new birth rate

The total number of live births per year per 1,000 people in a society is the

• Crude birth rate

• Life data rate

• Natural increase rate

• Total fertility rate

• Crude fertility rate

Physiological density is the number of

• acres of farmland per the total area of a country

• farmers per are of farmland

• people per area of flat land

• people per are suitable for agriculture (arable land)

• farm animals per area suitable for agriculture

The percentage by which a population grows each year is expressed by the

• Rate of Natural Increase (NIR)

• Doubling time

• Crude Birth Rate

• Total Fertility Rate

• Net Migration Rate

Which regions of the world would you expect to find the highest RNI?

• Central Africa

• Eastern Europe

• East Asia

• Latin America

• Southeast Asia