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WorksheetsUnit 2: Population
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
If the world's population in 2010 was approximately 7 billion and is expected to reach 14 billion in 45 years, what is the term for the period of 45 years?
Crude Death Rate
Demographic Transition
Life Expectancy
Doubling Time
Which of the following is TRUE of world population?
The majority of the world's population lives in Latin America
There are fewer people in the world now than in the middle of the 20th century
The most rapid growth is occurring in less developed countries
People are uniformly distributed across the earth
Which term describes the annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with live births?
Total Fertility Rate
Infant Mortality Rate
Crude Birth Rate
Natural Increase Rate
What is the scientific study of human population?
Demography
Ecology
Biology
Geneology
What country is expected to surpass China as the most populous country in the world by 2025?
Indnoesia
United States
Russia
India
What are the two most populous countries in the world?
China and India
China and United States
Russia and India
Indonesia and Japan
Two thirds of the world's population is clustered into 4 regions. Which of the following is NOT one of those regions?
Europe
South Asia
East Asia
Latin America
The countries of Thailand and Poland have approximately the same arithmetic population density. From this we can conclude that the two (2) countries have about the same:
Level of output per farmer
Standard of Living
Number of people per area of land
Large extended family
In 2009, Sweden had a crude birth rate of 10 and a crude death rate of 10. In what stage of demographic transition is Sweden?
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Country X has a crude birth rate (CBR) of 45 and a crude death rate (CDR) of 15, while country Y has a (CBR) of 20 and a (CDR) of 5. Which country has a lower rate of natural increase?
The rate is the same in both countries
Country X
The rate cannot be determined
Country Y
Which of the following is a problem that India is facing with its rapid population growth?
A shortage of food
Overcrowding
Sanitation and Pollution problems
All of the above
What does Total Fertility Rate (TFR) measure?
number of deaths per 1000 people in a year
number of births per 1000 people in a year
average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime
number of children that die before the age of 1
Which of the following would BEST explain the population pyramid below?
a country with a young population
a retirement community
a large university town
an industry that commonly hires males
According to the population pyramid above, in 2050 Japan will have what type of growth?
linear growth
negative growth
rapid growth
slow growth
Overpopulation is not just a concern over the number of people but also this…
edumene
consumption of resources
infant mortality rate
crude death rate
The world’s present population has recently went passed…
1.1 billion
10.3 billion
7.5 billion
21 billion
The Earth’s area of permanent human settlement is called the
ecumene
hot zone
civilized world
subpolar region
Physiological Density is the relationship between…
birth rates and death rates
people and land area
farmers and arable land
people and resources
This model incorporates birth, death and natural increase rates.
population pyramids
doubling time
demographic transition
world health threats
Under stage I of the demographic transition model, the crude birth rate and crude death rate are…
both low
both high
CBR is high / CDR is low
CBR is low / CDR is high
Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that
both have low growth rates
both have low life expectancies
both have high dependency ratios
neither are presently observed
Which of the following was responsible for a drop in death rates in many developing countries after 1950?
agricultural revolution
demographic transition
industrial revolution
medical revolution
Which famous philosopher and demographer stated that, “our population will outgrow available supplies?”
Esther Boserup
Jordan Kraemer
James M. Rubenstein
Thomas Malthus
What two ways can we slow population growth and decrease the crude birth rate and the fertility rate?
education of women and access to contraception
political stability and better medicine
better medicine and economic development
access to contraception and better medicine
Where is population clustered in the United States?
East coast
west coast
urban areas
all of the above
