Unit 2: Population & Migration

Land suited for agriculture is called...

• popuolation density

• agricultural density

• physiological land

• arid land

• arable land

A factor that leaves one with no choice but to leave one's current home (especially parental home), country, region, organization, or religion.

• environmental
• distribution
• pull factor
• push factor

the act of leaving one's country or region with the intent to settle permanently in another. It is the same as immigration but from the perspective of the country of origin. 

• emigration
• migration
• immigration
• routes

The scientific study of populations 

• Demography
• Population studies 
• Geography
• Ecology 

Difference between birth and death rates 

• Mortality 
• Fertility 
• Doubling time 
• Natural Increase

Which of the following includes developing nations?

• Sub-Saharan countries
• Europe
• Scandinavian countries
• North America

The ____ is a statistic that shows the average number of children a woman would have in her lifetime, if she had children at the current rate for her country.

• birthrate
• mortality rate
• rate of natural increase
• fertility rate

What does an "upside down" population pyramid indicate?

• lots of children
  lots of children
• lots of middle age people
• lots of elderly/older people
• lots of teens

Thomas Malthus thought

• population would increase at the same rate as farming production
• population would eventually decline due to birth control and family planning
• population would eventually outgrow food production
• moral restraint would lower population growth 

A pyramid is relatively rectangular shaped, what stage of the DTM does this represent?

• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5