APHG UNIT 2 POPULATION

If the world's population in 2010 was approximately 7 billion and is expected to reach 14 billion in 45 years. What is the term for the period of 45 years?

• Crude Death Rate

• Life Expectancy

• Doubling Time

• Demographic Transition

The seasonal herding of animals from higher elevations in the summer to lower elevations in the winter is known as

• Livestock Ranching

• Transhumanance

• Intercropping

• Truck Farming

Which of the following is true of world population?

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  The majority of the world's population lives in Latin America.

• The most rapid growth is occurring in less developed countries.

• There are fewer people in the world now than in the middle of the 20th century.

• People are uniformly distributed across the earth.

The countries of Thailand and Poland have approximately the same arithmetic population density. From this we can conclude that the two countries have about the same

• Level of output per farmer

• Number of people per area of land

• Standard of living

• Large extended family

What English cleric and economist stated that, "our population will outgrow available supplies?"

• Ester Boserup

• James Rubenstein

• Thomas Malthus

• Justin Smith

What two ways can we slow population growth and decrease the CDR (Crude Death Rate) and the fertility rate?

• education of women and access to contraception

• better medicine and economic development

• political stability and better medicine

• access to contraception and political stability

Country X has a crude birth rate (CBR) of 45 and a crude death rate (CDR) of 15, while country Country Y has a CBR of 20 and a CDR of 5, which country has a lower rate of natural increase?

• The rate is the same in both countries.

• Country X

• The rate cannot be determined.

• Country Y

Which of the following is a problem that India is facing with its rapid population growth? Choose three.

• A shortage of food

• Rising job market

• Overcrowding

• Sanitation and pollution problems

What does Total Fertility Rate (TFR) measure?

• number of deaths per 1000 people in a year

• average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime

• number of births per 1000 people in a year

• number of children that die before the age of one

The Earth's area of permanent human settlement is called

• Transhumance

• Hot Zone

• Ecumene

• Civilized world