Unit 2: Population and Migration

Explain Thomas Malthus's population theory.

• He concluded that the world's population increase was higher than the development of food supplies.
• He concluded that crude birth rates must balance crude death rates.
• He concluded that population increased arithmetically while food production increased linguistically.
• He concluded that population growth was outpacing available resources in every country, according to algebraic calculations.

What describes people who are entering a country to live?

• internal migration
• push factor
• immigrating
• emigrating

What are the reasons that people want to leave a country?

• push factor
• pull factor
• immigration
• emigration

What describes people who are leaving the country where they live?

• international migration
• pull factor
• immigrating
• emigrating

What is urbanization?

• the loss of countryside
• the increase and growth of cities
• the movement from rural to urban
• the migration of urban to rural

What are the reasons that people want to come to a country?

• push factor
• pull factor
• immigration
• emigration

the periodic count of a nation's population by its government

• census
• count day
• rate of natural increase
• migration

The Atlantic Ocean is an example of

• an environmental push factor
• an intervening obstacle
• an environmental  pull factor
• an economic factor

The most important intervening obstacle preventing Eastern Europeans from leaving their homes between World War 2 and the 1990s was

• the Danube River
• the Alps
• communist control of the region
• lack of financial resources

If a country's Immigration is LESS than it's Emigration it has

• net in-migration
• net out-migration
• it's population is increasing
• it needs to set quota laws