AP Human Geography Population & Migration Test Review

Which of the following statements is FALSE concerning the world's population?

• Artificial birth control use is higher in MDC's.

• Population growth rates differ from place to place

• A large population of uneducated women usually results in high fertility rates

• High fertility rates tend to be in LDC's

• Population is evenly distributed across the earth's surface

Which of the following statements about migration is incorrect?

• many migrants leave home because of war

• environmental problems cause many people to migrate

• nearly all migrants leave their homes because they want to change political parties

• most migrants leave to seek a better life economically

• many migrants are refugees

The arithmetic population density for a country or region is determined by dividing the total:

• population by the number of farmers

• population by the total land area

• number of farmers by the total population

• area of square miles by the number of homes

• number of children by the number of mothers

Only a fraction of the Earth's surface is actually farmable land. This land is called:

• productive

• ecumene

• arable

• populated

• carrying capacity capable

A national policy encouraging citizens to reduce the total fertility rate is known as

• pronatalist

• neonatalist

• postnatalist

• antinatalist

• quasinatalist

The population pyramid in this image indicates a

• country growing very slowly

• a country with a long life expectancy

• a rapidly growing country

• a country in the degenerative disease stage of the ETM

• a country with great health care options

In 1798, Thomas Malthus published an essay in which he claimed that population increased at a(n) ____________ rate, while the means of subsistence grew at a(n) _____________ rate

• geometric; arithmetic

• cultural; ethnic

• arithmetic; geometric

• declining; increasing

• exponential; geometric

The portion of the earth's surface that is livable and likely to be populated is known as

• population center

• Africa

• ecumene

• biopshere

• topography

Olivia recently moved from her home in Uruguay to the U.S. She communicates regularly with her family and has persuaded her younger brother to immigrate to the U.S. This is an example of...

• forced migration

• step migration

• intervening obstacle

• chain migration

• refugee status

Which of the following is the BEST example of a cultural push factor stimulating a migration?

• People forced to leave New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina

• Oklahoma farmers driven off their land by drought during the 1930s

• Eastern Europeans attracted to job opportunities in Western Europe

• Muslims leaving Israel after the establishment of a Jewish state there.

• Guest workers moving to Saudi Arabia to work in the oil industry