APHG Unit 1 & Unit 2 Review

The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land is the

a) average density.

b) total density.

c) physiologic density.

d) agricultural density.

• average density.

• total density.

• physiologic density.

• agricultural density.

Which of the following could be used to determine health care for women and children

• crude birth rate

• crude death rate

• infant mortality rate

• life expectancy

• natural increase rate

A country with a birth rate of 11 and death rate of 13 would benefit from

• pro-natalist policies

• anti-natalist policies

• increased spending on education

• decreased spending on health care

• restrictive immigration policies

A country with a high rate of natural increase that faces a shortage of food supply supports which theory?

• Demographic transition

• Epidemiological transition

• Neo-Malthusian Theory

• Core-Periphery Theory

• Human-Environment Theory

The Earth area of permanent human settlement is called the

• hot zone

• civilized world

• geophenom

• ecumene

• subpolar region

Number of years needed for a population to double in size.

• Life Expectancy

• Doubling Time

• Ecumene

• Natural Increase rate

Replacement level, the number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration, requires a total fertility of _________

• 10

• 2.1

• 3.5

• 5.0

Food production, contrary to the predictions of Malthus, has grown exponentially because of a number of factors. Which one of the following is not one of these factors?

• expanded agricultural acreage

• improved strains of seeds

• fertilizer application

• an increase in the number of farmers in Britain

A population pyramid with a wide base and narrow top is indicative of

• developed countries.

• countries in Stage IV of the demographic transition.

• less developed countries.

• low infant mortality.

The statistics that report the number of deaths per thousand people in a given year is called:

• the adjusted mortality rate.

• the crude death or mortality rate.

• the adjusted population level.

• the actual growth rate.