World Population Quiz

What term is used to describe the rapid growth of world population?

• Population density

• Population explosion

• Natural increase

• Demography

How is natural increase calculated?

• Birth rate + Death rate

• Birth rate / Death rate

• Birth rate - Death rate

• Death rate - Birth rate

What is overpopulation?

• When the total number of people living in a country is optimal for the utilization of natural resources

• When the total number of people living in a country is less than the available resources

• When the total number of people living in a country is more than the available resources

• When the population growth rate is equal to the death rate

What does underpopulation refer to?

• A situation where the population size is too large to be supported by the available resources

• A condition where the population size is optimal for the utilization of the country's resources

• A scenario where the population size is less than what the available resources can support

• The state where the population growth rate exceeds the death rate

What is the meaning of optimum population?

• The population size that leads to a scarcity of resources

• The population size that allows for the full utilization of natural resources and provides maximum per capita output and standard of living

• The population size that is too small to utilize the available resources effectively

• The population size that doubles in the shortest amount of time

The average number of years a person is expected to live.

• Life expectancy

• Age Span

• Aging Population

• Demography

The study of human population, their size, distribution, and composition.

• Geography

• Sociology

• Demography

• Human Studies

The arrangement, or spread, of people living in a given area.

• Population density

• Population distribution

• Doubling Time

• Population

a measurement of population per unit area

• Population

• Population distribution

• Population Density

• Doubling Time

Moving from one place to another

• Population Distribution

• Doubling Time

• Vacation

• Migration