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