8th Grade Population Geography Quiz

What is the number of people who die each year per 1,000 people called?

• Birth rate

• Death rate

• Migration

• Doubling time

The number of people born each year per 1,000 people is called:

• Birth rate

• Remittance

• Population pyramid

• Death rate

When birth rate is higher than death rate, the result is:

• Migration

• Remittance

• Natural increase

• Ongoing

Which term means the time it takes for a population to double in size?

• Population pyramid

• Migration

• Doubling time

• Natural increase

A diagram that shows the age and sex structure of a population is called:

• Population pyramid

• Remittance

• Ongoing

• Migration

If 15 babies are born and 5 people die for every 1,000 people, what is the natural increase?

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 20

A man leaves Mexico to work in the U.S. and sends money back home to his family. This money is called:

• Migration

• Remittance

• Natural increase

• Ongoing

If a country’s birth rate and death rate are almost equal, what will happen to the population?

• Stay about the same

• Increase quickly

• Decrease quickly

• Double every year

Which of the following describes migration?

• People moving from one place to another

• People living in one place forever

• The growth of a population naturally

• The doubling of a country’s population

If a country has a wide base on its population pyramid, it most likely has:

• A large elderly population

• A high birth rate

• A very low death rate

• Equal numbers of males and females