Population Patterns and Change Quiz

What is the study of population patterns and change known as?

• Urbanization

• Demography

• Emigration

• Census

What term describes the number of people in a defined area such as a square mile?

• Population density

• Standard of living

• Rate of natural increase

• Dependent population

What is a census?

• The movement of people from rural to urban areas

• The periodic count of a nation's population by its government

• The birth rate minus the death rate expressed as a percentage

• The study of artifacts

What does the rate of natural increase represent?

• The level of wealth and comfort available to a person or society

• The number of people who emigrate to another country

• The birth rate minus the death rate expressed as a percentage

• The number of people who immigrate to a country

What is migration?

• The process of leaving one country to take up permanent residence in another

• The movement of people

• The study of past populations

• The level of wealth in a country

What does the demographic transition theory/model describe?

• The stages countries go through as birth and death rates change over time

• The factors that push people out of one place to another

• The factors that attract people to move to a place

• The movement of people from urban to rural areas

What are push factors?

• Factors that attract people to move to a place

• Factors that push people out of one place to another

• The periodic count of a nation's population

• The movement of people from rural to urban areas

What are pull factors?

• Factors that push people out of one place to another

• The periodic count of a nation's population

• Factors that attract people to move to a place

• The movement of people from rural to urban areas

What is a refugee?

• A person who has been forced to leave his/her country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster

• A person who moves from rural to urban areas

• A person who relies on others for support

• A person who studies population patterns

What is urbanization?

• The movement of people from rural to urban areas

• The level of wealth, comfort, and material goods available to a person or society

• The process of entering one country to take up permanent residence

• The process of leaving one country to take up permanent residence