AP HuG Unit 2 Chapter 2

What is NOT true concerning the human ecumene?

• It is clustered in the mid-latitudes.

• It is clustered in fertile river valleys.

• It is clustered in sub-Saharan Africa in the "cradle of civilization."

• It is clustered in along coastlines.

In recent years, the human population has

• increased exponentially

• decreased exponentially

• decreased slowly

• increased slowy

What does the term carrying capacity describe?

• The maximum number of birth rates for a population.

• The ability of a population to accept new immigrants.

• The ratio of birth rates to death rates in a population.

• The population size that the environment can sustain.

What does a Population Pyramid NOT give you information about?

• Birth rates

• Actual numbers or % of people

• Migration to/from a country

• Death Rates

As a country slows in population growth, its pyramid shape will:

• Become wider at the base and narrower at the top

• Be inverted

• Become more rectangular

• Bulge in the middle

Factors that can alter the trend represented by a population pyramid include:

• Industrialization

• Natural Disasters and wars

• Education of women

• All of the above

Demographers predict we will reach 8 billion people in 2023. This means the world will

• have to make sustainable choices for all people in all parts of the world.

• become overpopulated

• not change at all- we have nothing to worry about.

• be more likely to go to war over fossil fuels.

More people live inside this circle (regions) than outside it.

• True

• False

The study of population and it impacts is known as

• demography

• democracy

• sociology

• cartography

Geographers would identify Country B as having ____ growth.

• slow/sustained
• fast
• negative