Geography 8th grade

What are the topics or concepts you need to study the most for the cumulative? (There's no right or wrong answer :) )

The country represented by the population pyramid above is most likely characterized by

• adequate health care for the elderly

• readily available birth control

• high death rates for women in childbirth

• low rates of heart disease and cancer

Refugees fleeing (Going away) from the Balkans during the war in 1990s were mostly reacting to

• environmental push factors

• economic pull factors

• Political push factors

• political pull factors

According to demographic transition theory at which stages in a country’s development is population most likely to increase?

• Stages 1 and 2

• Stages 3 and 4

• Stages 1 and 4

• Stages 2 and 3

In recent years, death rates in developing countries have

• stayed about the same

• increased slightly

• increased significantly

• decreased significantly

Organize the following human communities from least to most heavily populated:

City, Town, Hamlet, Conurbation, Village

• Town, Village, City, Hamlet, Conurbation

• Hamlet, Village, Town, City, Conurbation

• Town, Village, Conurbation, Hamlet, City

• Hamlet, Village, Town, Conurbation, City

Child mortality rates improved during the nineteenth century for all of the following factors EXCEPT __________

• improved agricultural technologies

• more widespread beliefs in folk medicine

• higher urban sanitation standards

• improved medical knowledge and technology

Which of the following three countries best represent Stage 4 of demographic transition?

• China, India, and Pakistan

• Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina

• The United Kingdom, Japan, and United States

• Russia, Mongolia, and China

In 2014, which of these countries had the highest population density?

• India

• The Netherlands

• Germany

• China

The “natural increase rate” for a country is calculated by __________.

• finding the difference between immigration and emigration for a country

• adding together the number of immigrants and the crude birth rate and then subtracting the number of emigrants and the crude death rate

• finding the difference between the birth rate and the death rate

• None of the other answers is correct