APHG: Unit 2

Replacement level, the number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration, requires a total fertility of _________

• 10

• 2.1

• 3.5

• 5.0

Not all countries with aging populations resort to immigration to offset economic problems. An example is:

• Germany.

• Japan.

• the United States.

• Norway.

Almost everywhere on Earth, Total Fertility Rates (TFRs) are

• Rising

• Falling

• Staying about the same

• Influenced by precipitation levels

In the Western Hemisphere, which of the following countries has a Total Fertility Rate below replacement level?

• the United States

• Haiti

• Mexico.

• Argentina

The arithmetic density of population for a country is determined by dividing the total

• population by the number of farmers.

• area of square miles by 5.

• area of the country by the population.

• population by the total area.

The problem with using arithmetic population density to investigate the population pattern of a country is that such a density figure does not take into consideration

• annual population increases.

• internal clustering of people within the country.

• annexation of new territory.

• possible loss of territory.

The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land is the

a) average density.

b) total density.

c) physiologic density.

d) agricultural density.

• average density.

• total density.

• physiologic density.

• agricultural density.

The major focus of North America's population is

• Chicago.

• California.

• the Megalopolis region.

• the South.

Various organizations protested the 2000 and 2010 United States census because

• of the possibility of under-counting disadvantaged populations.

• the census does not count minorities living in rural areas.

• the World Bank already conducts a census of the United States.

• congressional seats are no longer allotted to each state based on population.

In 1789, a British economist named Thomas Malthus published an essay in which he claimed that while population increased at what he called a geometric rate, the means of subsistence grew only at

• an arithmetic (linear) rate.

• a rate depending on the particular culture involved.

• a declining rate.

• an unpredictable rate.