POPULATION (2.1-2.3)

What is the difference between physiological and arithmetic density?

• The rate at which women have enough babies on average to replace the older generation

• Total number of objects

• Arithmetic density is the number of people supported by an area of arable land while physiological density is the number of people in an area.

• Physiological density is the number of people supported by an area of arable land while arithmetic density is the total number of objects in an area.

What is population density?

• Low cluster of population in a certain region

• Growth of population over time

• Mass production of arable land

• High cluster of a population in a certain region

The four types of demograhics

• Race, ethnicity, gender, continent

• Race, age, gender, city

• Race, gender, age, population density

• Race, age, gender, population size

Those 0-14 and 65+ are classified as?

• Dependents

• Working age

• Independents

• Baby boomers

Define demography

• The study of how people behave

• The study of living things and their population

• The scientific study of population characterisitics

• The study of graphs about human statistics

Identify the four scales of analysis in the correct order

• Global, local, national, regional

• Local, national, global, cities

• Global, regional, national, local

• National, local, global, regional

Which of the following is likely to be affected by a population of 7 billion?

• Amount of land for agriculture

• Amount of clean water

• Number of people who are unemployed

• All of the above

Define overpopulation

• Human beings in general

• A measurement of people for a specific area

• Number of people in an area is more than capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living

• All inhabitants of a particular area

The number of people that are too young or too old to work on a population pyramid

• Gender ratio

• Demographic ratio

• Dependency ratio

• Population ratio

If the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths (little change), what will happen to the growth of the population?

• It will increase

• It will stay the same

• It will decrease

• It fluctuate