Population Geography Pages 31 - 37

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 limitation of natural resources, although the resources available in the country seem adequate to that population.

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

The most populous country in the Southeast Asia region is

• Bangladesh

• China

• Indonesia

• Thailand

Relatively few people live at ____________, but there are significant examples of people living near coast and rivers.

• high elevations (highlands)

• desert

• wet

• polar regions

• all are correct

Physiological density is the number of

• acres of farmland per the total area of a country.

• farmers per area of farmland.

• people per area suitable for agriculture.

• people per area of flatland.

Land suited for agriculture is called

• population density.

• agricultural density

• physiological land.

• arable land.

Distribution of population refers to

• the total number of people divided by total land area.

• the size of population.

• the arrangement of locations on the earth's surface where people live.

• an area that can support on a sustained basis

Two-thirds of the world's population is concentrated in four regions EXCEPT:

• Europe

• South Asia

• Southeast Asia

• North America

The United States, the US Census Bureau

• keeps elaborate population statistics based on race and ethnicity.

• registers responses from citizens every ten years.

• identifies people and categorize them.

• all are correct.

Population pyramids of Afghanistan and France demonstrates that Afghanistan has

• has many more young people.

• is a developed country.

• a older population.

• has high levels heart disease and cancer.

Dot maps represent

• the arrangement of locations on the earth's surface where people live.

• the number of people that live in a given area of land.

• a certain number of people.

• focuses on the number, composition and distribution of human beings on earth's surfaces.