AP Human Geography CH. 2 Key Issue 1 and 2

The population of a country divided by its area (square miles) determines its:

• population doubling time

• population density

• rate of natural increase

• birth/death rate

Which of the following is an historical example of an internal migration?

• the African slave trade across the Middle Passage in the 1700's

• the movement of people across the land bridge from Asia to North America some 10,000 years ago

• the removal of members of the Cherokee nation in 1837 and 1838 from tribal lands in Georgia to government reserves in Oklahoma Territory

• the flight of thousands of Irish to different parts of the world as a result of the 1848 potato famine

What is the purpose of an age-sex pyramid?

• to show the fertility rate among women in the 20 to 30 age group

• to show the population structure of a country

• to show the migration patterns within a country

• to show the spatial distribution of a population

The world's population is currently growing by about 90 million per year; the bulk of this growth is occuring in:

• countries south of the equator

• countries north of the equator

• richer countries

• poorer countries

The world's ____ largest population concentrations all lie on the Eurasian landmass:

• 6

• 5

• 4

• 3

The population explosion of the past ____ years has increased the world's population from under 1 billion to approximately 6 billion:

• 500

• 100

• 50

• 25

The stage of the demographic transition in which you have declining fertility, but, as a result of already low mortality, continuing significant growth is:

• five

• four

• three

• two

The population of a country changes as a result of four conditions. Which of these is not one of the four:

• immigration

• deaths

• births

• natural increase

The relocation of thousands of non-Serbian Kosovars by Slobodan Milosevic is a form of:

• out-migration

• in-migration

• forced migration

• voluntary migration

Population distribution is best represented by a:

• choropleth map

• cartogram

• population pyramid

• dot map