AP Human Geography Ch. 2 Review

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 data needs to be focused on when questioning the "why" of demographics?

• health
• topography
• inventions
• "pollution exporting" policies

What has been the most lethal epidemic in recent years?

• malaria
• AIDS
• cholera
• avian flu

If a city's population is dominated by elderly people how would the population pyramid look?

• upside down
• rightside-up
• to have a wide base
• to have perfectly vertical sides

What is NIR?  What is the current rate?

• Natural Increase Rate; 1.2%
• Natural Increase Rate; 2.2%
• life expectancy rate; 3.0%
• natural expectancy rate; .8%

A crude birth rate of approximately 10 per 1,000 is typical of a country in which stage of the demographic transition?

• stage 1
• stage 2
• stage 3
• stage 4

Where are people most likely not to live?

• places that are too hot
• places that are too cold 
• places that are too high in elevation
• All the answers are correct

What is the average number of births women bear in their lifetimes known as?

• total increase rate
• total fertility rate
• crude fertility rate
• crude birth rate

What demographic feature has the most significant future implications?

• that the less developed countries have the highest combined crude death rate
• that the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries
• that people are uniformly distributed across Earth
• that the natural increase rate is larger every year

What happened to the global population during the Industrial Revolution?

• it declined although the annual growth rate increased exponentially
• it decreased although it had increased during the earlier agricultural revolution
• it continued to increase despite fluctuations in individual countries
• it decreased dramatically because fewer people were producing food in rural communities