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APHG U2 Population Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This type of bar graph shows the age and gender composition of a population

a)

total fertility rate (TFR)

b)

demograph

c)

population pyramid

d)

rate of natural increase (RNI) triad

2.
What is the proper way to depict age dependency ratio?
a)
as a ratio, working-age population : non-working-age population
b)
as a fraction, non-working-age population over working-age population
c)
as a ratio, non-working-age population : working-age population
d)
as a fraction, working-age population over non-working-age population
3.
Which of the following sex ratios is closest to the natural sex ratio?
a)
Qatar: 102:100
b)
Signapore: 107:100
c)
Albania 101:100
d)
Bulgaria: 106:100
4.
Which is a more accurate way to gauge population growth?
a)
total fertility rate (TFR)
b)
crude birth rate
c)
crude death rate
d)
demographic equations
5.
Which is the best practical definition of food insecurity?
a)
Food prices fluctuate wildly so that I cannot depend on being able to get certain foods
b)
Someone could easily break in and steal my food supply!
c)
No money to buy healthy food, and if I did there isn't a place to get healthy food around here.
d)
The foods available to me are reasonably priced and healthy I just don't like the way they taste
6.

Which of these is a push factor

a)

We have extensive petroleum reserves and the cost of gas is among the lowest in the world

b)

Soccer is incredibly popular here and there are frequently occurring opportunities to see world-class talent compete live

c)

We average over 250 sunny days per year

d)

We have been in a state of civil war since 2011

7.

Which of the following is a pull factor?

a)

Unemployment is rampant here

b)

We have not had a free election here since 1992

c)

Shia Islam is widely practiced here and a Muslim can practice freely without fear of suppression, so long as they are Shia

d)

Conscription is law here so males can expect to serve in the military for a minimum of 2 years after completing secondary school

8.

What country contributes more immigrants to the United States than any other?

a)

El Salvaor

b)

Syria

c)

Haiti

d)

Mexico

e)

Candada

9.

Which of these would be most likely to study statistics of birth and death?

a)

a statistician

b)

a mortician

c)

a demographer

d)

a populographer

10.

Which are needed to figure the demographic equation?

a)

natural increase + net migration

b)

natural increase + age dependency

c)

sex ratio + net migration

d)

total fertility rate + net migration

11.

Zane has decided to _________ to Australia after high school because he wants to learn how to surf

a)

immigrate

b)

emigrate

12.

Jeff travels to Japan quarterly for work. He has several Japanese friends, has come to like Japanese cuisine, and is nearly fluent in speaking Japanese. What is this an example of?

a)

globalization

b)

transnationalism

c)

localization

d)

neolocalism

13.

What figures are needed to calculate RNI?

a)

population and birth rate

b)

infant mortality and birth rates

c)

birth rate and death rate

d)

population, birth and death rates

14.

Which population statistic would be most useful in determining the quality of a country's healthcare system?

a)

total fertility rate (TFR)

b)

crude birth rate (CBR)

c)

infant mortality

d)

rate of natural increase (RNI)

15.

What would a neo-Malthusian say about the food supply?

a)

When we get close to fully utilizing it a scientific breakthrough will happen and make it bigger

b)

It's a positive check and when we get close to exceeding it a famine will bring numbers back below carrying capacity

c)

We easily produce enough food to go around but politics and greed keep the people who need it from getting it

16.

What would a social critic say about the food supply?

a)

When we get close to fully utilizing it a scientific breakthrough will happen and make it bigger

b)

It's a positive check and when we get close to exceeding it a famine will bring numbers back below carrying capacity

c)

We easily produce enough food to go around but politics and greed keep the people who need it from getting it

17.

What would Ester Boserup say about the food supply?

a)

When we get close to fully utilizing it a scientific breakthrough will happen and make it bigger

b)

It's a positive check and when we get close to exceeding it a famine will bring numbers back below carrying capacity

c)

We easily produce enough food to go around but politics and greed keep the people who need it from getting it

18.

Generally speaking, who lives longer?

a)

women

b)

men

c)

alligators

19.

Which of these countrys' TFRs is at replacement level

a)

Turkey: 2.0

b)

Paraguay: 1.9

c)

Peru: 2.1

d)

India: 2.4

20.

Which of these population figures can we not find given a country's population and population pyramid?

a)

birth rate

b)

sex ratio

c)

age-dependency ratio

d)

number of elderly (65 or older)

21.

Underdeveloped countries often have high death rates but having a high death rate doesn't mean that a country is underdeveloped. This country is a good example of this:

a)

Russia

b)

Niger

c)

Afghanistan

d)

The United States

22.

Which country has the highest physiological population density?

a)

Russia

b)

Canada

c)

India

d)

Egypt

23.

Which of these does not experience net immigration?

a)

North America

b)

Europe

c)

Latin America

d)

Oceania

24.

Which of these does not experience net emigration?

a)

Asia

b)

Europe

c)

Latin America

d)

Asia

25.

What is the worlds population?

a)

75,300,000,000

b)

7,530,000,000

c)

753,000,000

d)

75,300,000