APHG Unit 2 Population and Migration

Geographers might characterize as overpopulated a country where

• there are too many people according to a standard economic measure of poverty.

• the population numbers less than one million, but there is concern that the country's natural resources are adequate for only half that number.

• the population numbers more than 100 million and there is concern about the finite limits of natural resources, although the resources available in the country seem adequate to that population.

• the population numbers more than one million, and there is an average distribution of population to resources.

• All of these answer choices are correct.

The Earth area of permanent human settlement is called the ...

• hot zone.

• civilized world

• ecumene

• subpolar region

• geophenom

Land suited for agriculture is called...

• popuolation density

• agricultural density

• physiological land

• arid land

• arable land

We can calculate that a country would raise, or increase, its physiological density by...

• increasing the amount of agricultural land

• limiting the number of farmers.

• increasing the areas of its urban centers

• increasing the size of its population

• limiting the number of farm animals

We can calculate that a country would raise, or increase, its agricultural density if it...

• decreased the amount of agricultural land

• decreased the number of farmers

• increased the areas of its urban centers

• increased the size of its population

• decreased the number of farm animals

The average number of births women bear in their lifetimes is...

• total birth rate

• crude birth rate

• total fertility rate

• total increase rate

• crude fertility rate

The fertility rate based on the number of live births per 1,000 residents is the...

• crude birth rate

• crude fertility rate

• infant birth rate

• natural increase rate

• life expectancy at birth

Country A has a crude birth rate of 60 and a crude death rate of 15, while Country B has a CBR of 27 and a CDR of 9. Which country has a higher natural increase rate?

• Country A

• Country B

• The NIR is the same in both countries

• The rate depends on total population, so it can't be computed from this information.

• The CDR has no direct correlation to the CBR, so it cannot help determine the NIR

Japan is dealing with economic concerns about an aging population by...

• increasing the birth rate

• encouraging women and older people to work

• encouraging intermarriage between Japanese and non-Japanese workers

• increasing its longstanding policy of moving polluting industries to China

• encouraging immigration

A European country's population pyramid would drastically change shape if it began to resemble...

• the population pyramid of Japan

• the age-sex diagram of the United States

• the population pyramid of Nigeria

• the age-sex diagram of Australia

• the population pyramid of Canada