Human Populations

The part of the world experiencing the biggest population increase.

• Europe

• Asia

• North America

• South America

What contributed to most to the exponential growth of the human population?

• higher birth rates

• higher fertility rates

• increased immigration

• more food and better hygiene

How has educating women lowered birthrates?

• They learn family-planning techniques

• They have more children so the kids have playmates

• They are too tired to have children

• They can't afford the children

What is the name given to people that study and make predictions about human populations?

• populists

• geologists

• stenographers

• demographers

Which of the following characterizes the 3rd stage of demographic transition?

• populations with high amounts of young people

• high death rates and low birth rates

• social conditions that favor smaller families

• weak or developing economies

What characterizes the 4th stage of demographic transition?

• birth rates drop below replacement level and population decreases

• high birth and death rates

• high birth rates with decreasing death rates

• population increases dramatically

What characterizes the 2nd stage or demographic transition?

• death rate increases

• death rate decreases

• death rate remains the same

• population remains low

Type of migration that can increase a countries population.

• emigration

• immigration

When replacement level fertility is met in all countries

• there will still be huge differences in population growth in different countries

• the world population will decrease dramatically

• the world population will stabilize

• everyone will have all the resources they need to survive

Less-developed countries lack ____________ which is why the suffer more from rapid population growth.

• fertility rates

• infrastructure

• survivorship

• cultural values