IB Geography 2019 syllabus review

Modern-day geographers who hold the view that that a mass starvation event is inevitable would be labeled as...

• MacCormackites

• Proponents of Ester Boserup's Theory

• Neo-Malthusians

• Ravensteinians

Over the past century, the population of the world has been...

• growing even though the fertility rate is decreasing

• growing even though the life expectancy is decreasing

• growing because the fertility rate is increasing

• declining because life expectancy is decreasing

On the Demographic Transition Model, which stage(s) is/are characterized by HIGH death rates, High BIRTH RATES, but LOW populations.

• Stage 1

• Stage 2

• Stage 3

• Stages 4 and 5

Who would agree with the following view: "The Malthusian model is invalid since the mass starvation event he predicted has not occurred and food production has so far kept up with population levels".

• Ravenstein

• Thomas Malthus

• Esther Boserup

• Wilbur Zelinsky

This country is most likely in which stage of the Demographic Transition Model?

• stage 1

• stage 2

• stage 3

• stage 5

Which of the following BEST describes China's Later, Longer, Fewer and One Child Policies?

• Pronatalist

• Political factors decreasing fertility rates

• Social factors decreasing fertility rates

• Demographic factors decreasing fertility rates

Barriers that get in the way of a person's migration are known as...

• Gender inequalities

• Intervening obstacles

• Urbanization

• Ravenstein's Laws of Migration

When women in developing countries become educated...

• The death rate increases

• the country enters stage 5 of the Epidemiological Transition Model

• the agricultural density increases

• Fertility rates decrease

What does urbanisation mean?

• the movement of people from the countryside to towns and cities

• the movement of people out of cities to the countryside

• an increase in the percentage of people living in towns and cities

• an increase in the percentage of people moving to the countryside

What does rural-urban migration mean?

• movement from the countryside to towns and cities

• movement out of cities to the countryside

• movement from one country to another

• working in one place and living in another