Geographers might characterize as overpopulated a country where

• there are too many people according to a standard economic measure of poverty.

• the population numbers less than one million, but there is concern that the country's natural resources are adequate for only half that number.

• the population numbers more than 100 million and there is concern about the finite limits of natural resources, although the resources available in the country seem adequate to that population.

• the population numbers more than one million, and there is an average distribution of population to resources.

• All of these answer choices are correct.

The Earth area of permanent human settlement is called the ...

• hot zone.

• civilized world

• ecumene

• subpolar region

• geophenom

Comparing the charts, maps, and other data on the world population growth in this chapter, one can deduce that after the Ice Age, approximately 10,000 years ago Earth's human population...

• changed little because of the availability of food from massive land animals.

• began a long period of near stagnation, following a heretofore unprecedented period of rapid growth.

• had not yet appeared on the surface of the planet.

• began to increase at a heretofore unprecedented rate, following millennia of near stagnation.

• increased at unprecedented rates for two centuries, then declined again.

Land suited for agriculture is called...

• popuolation density

• agricultural density

• physiological land

• arid land

• arable land

We can calculate that a country would raise, or increase, its physiological density by...

• increasing the amount of agricultural land

• limiting the number of farmers.

• increasing the areas of its urban centers

• increasing the size of its population

• limiting the number of farm animals

We can calculate that a country would raise, or increase, its agricultural density if it...

• decreased the amount of agricultural land

• decreased the number of farmers

• increased the areas of its urban centers

• increased the size of its population

• decreased the number of farm animals

The average number of births women bear in their lifetimes is...

• total birth rate

• crude birth rate

• total fertility rate

• total increase rate

• crude fertility rate

The fertility rate based on the number of live births per 1,000 residents is the...

• crude birth rate

• crude fertility rate

• infant birth rate

• natural increase rate

• life expectancy at birth

It may sound strange to hear that the ________ is generally lower for less developed countries than for more developed countries, but the difference is correlated to the average age of each population.

• crude birth rate

• crude death rate

• infant mortality rate

• natural increase rate

• total growth rate

Country A has a crude birth rate of 60 and a crude death rate of 15, while Country B has a CBR of 27 and a CDR of 9. Which country has a higher natural increase rate?

• Country A

• Country B

• The NIR is the same in both countries

• The rate depends on total population, so it can't be computed from this information.

• The CDR has no direct correlation to the CBR, so it cannot help determine the NIR