Trends in World Population

Movement from a farm to a city is considered which type of migration?

• Migrant stream
• Intercontinental
• External Migration
• Rural to Urban migration

The Largest number of legal, documented and illegal, undocumented immigrants to the United States come from what country?

• the Philippines

• Dominican Republic

• Cuba

• El Salvador

• Mexico

This caused a jump in the worlds' population in the late 1700's and helped send England into stage 2 of the Industrial Revolution: 

• the Renaissance
• the Industrial Revolution
• the Medical Revolution
• the Scientific Revolution

Since the 1980's, most US In-Migration has come from

• Europe
• East Asia
• Latin America
• South Asia

According to this map (Page 120), which nation attracted the largest number of immigrants?

• The US
• Brazil
• Australia
• China

The United States experienced a period of greatly increased immigration in the mid-nineteenth century. In particular, there was a surge in the number of Irish immigrants. Why did Irish immigration increase during the mid-nineteenth century?

• the end of the Napoleonic Wars
• the Irish won their independence from the United Kingdom
• the Great Potato Famine in Ireland
• the spread of the Plague in Ireland

If a location is urban, it is...

• outside towns and cities

• far away from main centres of population

• within towns and cities

• by a sea or an ocean

What is the definition of urbanization

• The outward growth of urban areas

• An increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas

• An increase in the amount of people living in urban areas

• An increase in the birth rate compared to death rate

The two ways that urban areas grow are

• nitrogen and phospherous

• natural increase and migration

• lower death dates

• immigration and less pollution

The main problems in city today concern

• shops, malls and leisure centers

• the overpopulation, pets and runners

• the buildings, the streets and the parks

• the environment, the infrastructures and the transport