APHG Unit 2 Vocab Quiz 1

The number of people too young or too old to work compared to the number of people in the work force is called...

• Replacement Rate
• Dependency Ratio
• Total Fertility Rate
• Crude Birth Rate

Which of the following is the replacement rate?

• 2
• 2.1
• 3
• 1

The geographic model that shows five stages of population changes overtime but also provides important insights into issues of migration, fertility, economic development, industrialization, urbanization, labor, politics, and the roles of women is called....

• Demographic Transition Model
• Rostow's Stages of Development
• Population pyramid
• Malthusian theory

This theory developed the main idea that global population would one day expand to the point where it could not produce enough food to feed everyone is which theory.........

• Malthusian theory
• Rostow's Theory of Development
• Von Thunen Theory of Agriculture

These theorists warn that a Malthusian catastrophe could still occur when we won't be able to come up with new technologies to meet future food demands are called...

• Malthusian Theory
• Neo-Malthusians
• Rostow's Theory
• Feminists

A triangular shaped population pyramid shows which of the following

• fast-growing
• moderate growth
•  slow growth
• shrinking

A more practical tool in understanding sustainability of a population of a certain region or country the measures the number of people per square unit of farm land is known as...

• Physiologic Density
• Arithmetic Density
• Population densities
• Arable land Density

This migration occurs when a pioneering individual or group settles in a new place, establishing a new migrant foothold is called...

• Step Migration
• Chain Migration
• Forced Migration
• Refugees

In the DTM, societies in the first stage

• experience low birth rates and high death rates
• are fully industrialized
• experience high birth rates and low death rates
• engage in transhumance

The theory developed to describe the development process using 5 stages, traditional society, preconditions for takeoff, takeoff, drive to maturity, age of mass consumption is called

• Rostow's Stages of Growth
• Dependency Theory
• Weber's Theory
• Containment