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WorksheetsAPHG: Unit 2
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 35mins
Replacement level, the number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration, requires a total fertility of _________
10
2.1
3.5
5.0
Not all countries with aging populations resort to immigration to offset economic problems. An example is:
Germany.
Japan.
the United States.
Norway.
Almost everywhere on Earth, Total Fertility Rates (TFRs) are
Rising
Falling
Staying about the same
Influenced by precipitation levels
In the Western Hemisphere, which of the following countries has a Total Fertility Rate below replacement level?
the United States
Haiti
Mexico.
Argentina
The arithmetic density of population for a country is determined by dividing the total
population by the number of farmers.
area of square miles by 5.
area of the country by the population.
population by the total area.
The problem with using arithmetic population density to investigate the population pattern of a country is that such a density figure does not take into consideration
annual population increases.
internal clustering of people within the country.
annexation of new territory.
possible loss of territory.
The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land is the
a) average density.
b) total density.
c) physiologic density.
d) agricultural density.
average density.
total density.
physiologic density.
agricultural density.
The major focus of North America's population is
Chicago.
California.
the Megalopolis region.
the South.
Various organizations protested the 2000 and 2010 United States census because
of the possibility of under-counting disadvantaged populations.
the census does not count minorities living in rural areas.
the World Bank already conducts a census of the United States.
congressional seats are no longer allotted to each state based on population.
In 1789, a British economist named Thomas Malthus published an essay in which he claimed that while population increased at what he called a geometric rate, the means of subsistence grew only at
an arithmetic (linear) rate.
a rate depending on the particular culture involved.
a declining rate.
an unpredictable rate.
Food production, contrary to the predictions of Malthus, has grown exponentially because of a number of factors. Which one of the following is not one of these factors?
expanded agricultural acreage
improved strains of seeds
fertilizer application
an increase in the number of farmers in Britain
Births and _______ add to the population growth of a particular country.
rise in the death rate
emigration
immigration
increased agricultural output
In the 21st century, world population doubling time is
a)
b)
c)
d)
300 years
increasing (i.e. taking longer to double)
decreasing
ten years
In the 1970's, the government of India used this method to reduce the population growth rates in certain areas of the country.
tax incentives
forced sterilization of males
free housing for small families
cash awards
Population growth rates are ____________ in southern India, where women have higher literacy rates.
higher
the same as northern India
lower
the same as the Indian average
The statistics that report the number of deaths per thousand people in a given year is called:
the adjusted mortality rate.
the crude death or mortality rate.
the adjusted population level.
the actual growth rate.
A population pyramid with a wide base and narrow top is indicative of
developed countries.
countries in Stage IV of the demographic transition.
less developed countries.
low infant mortality.
A developed country that has reached a stage where the population is most stable will develop a population pyramid that is __________.
bell shaped
pear shaped
rectangular shaped
cone shaped
All maps have
distortion.
graduated circles.
representative fractions.
bar scale.
Geographers might characterize as overpopulated a country where
there are too many people according to a standard economic measure of poverty.
the population numbers less than one million, but there is concern that the country's natural resources are adequate for only half that number.
the population numbers more than 100 million and there is concern about the finite limits of natural resources, although the resources available in the country seem adequate to that population.
the population numbers more than one million, and there is an average distribution of population to resources.
All of these answer choices are correct.
The Earth area of permanent human settlement is called the ...
hot zone.
civilized world
ecumene
subpolar region
geophenom
Comparing the charts, maps, and other data on the world population growth in this chapter, one can deduce that after the Ice Age, approximately 10,000 years ago Earth's human population...
changed little because of the availability of food from massive land animals.
began a long period of near stagnation, following a heretofore unprecedented period of rapid growth.
had not yet appeared on the surface of the planet.
began to increase at a heretofore unprecedented rate, following millennia of near stagnation.
increased at unprecedented rates for two centuries, then declined again.
Land suited for agriculture is called...
popuolation density
agricultural density
physiological land
arid land
arable land
We can calculate that a country would raise, or increase, its physiological density by...
increasing the amount of agricultural land
limiting the number of farmers.
increasing the areas of its urban centers
increasing the size of its population
limiting the number of farm animals
We can calculate that a country would raise, or increase, its agricultural density if it...
decreased the amount of agricultural land
decreased the number of farmers
increased the areas of its urban centers
increased the size of its population
decreased the number of farm animals
The average number of births women bear in their lifetimes is...
total birth rate
crude birth rate
total fertility rate
total increase rate
crude fertility rate
The fertility rate based on the number of live births per 1,000 residents is the...
crude birth rate
crude fertility rate
infant birth rate
natural increase rate
life expectancy at birth
It may sound strange to hear that the ________ is generally lower for less developed countries than for more developed countries, but the difference is correlated to the average age of each population.
crude birth rate
crude death rate
infant mortality rate
natural increase rate
total growth rate
Japan is dealing with economic concerns about an aging population by...
increasing the birth rate
encouraging women and older people to work
encouraging intermarriage between Japanese and non-Japanese workers
increasing its longstanding policy of moving polluting industries to China
encouraging immigration
The shape of a country's population pyramid...
is determined primarily by its crude birth rate
has no correlation to its crude death rate
cannot be used to estimate the country's dependency rate
cannot be used to estimate the country's sex ratio
is determined primarily by the combination of its crude birth rate and its crude growth rate
One demographic feature with the most significant future implications is that...
the natural increase rate is larger every year
there are fewer people in the world now than at the peak in the middle of the twentieth century
the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries
people are uniformly distributed across Earth
the less developed countries have the highest combined crude death rate
The highest natural increase rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?
stage 1
stage 2
stage 3
stage 4
stage 5
The highest crude death rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?
stage 1
stage 2
stage 3
stage 4
stage 5
Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that...
both have low growth rates
both have high dependency ratios
both have low dependency ratios
both have low life expectancies
both have low death rates
More of the "why" questions of demographics can be addressed with data focusing on...
inventions
health
topography
"pollution exporting" policies
air quality
Evaluating the charts on world population growth in this chapter, we can deduce that ...
the world population decreased during the late 1950s although it increased through the rest of the 1900s, owing to fluctuations in the net increase rate
the annual growth rate has increased exponentially, especially between 30,000 and 20,000 years ago
the natural increase rate has been correlated to the growth in global population, and both have increased greatly in the last century
the natural increase rate will always rise
the natural increase rate has been negatively correlated to the doubling time, which is expressed in terms of years, yet the doubling time has not changed greatly in recent decades
Thomas Malthus concluded that...
population increased arithmetically while food production increased linguistically
the world's rate of population increase was higher than the development of food supplies
so-called "moral restraint" was producing lower crude birth rates
population growth was outpacing available resources in every country, according to algebraic calculations
crude birth rates must balance crude death rates
The ability to move from one location to another, either temporarily or permanently, is...
migration
mobility
net migration
voluntary migration
forced migration
A country has net in-migration if immigration ________ emigration.
equals
exceeds
is closer to net migration than
is less than
varies more than
A boy migrated from Honduras through Guatemala and Mexico, then entered the United States without immigration documents, because members of his ethnic group were being targeted for torture or assassination in his home country. Although the U.S. government does not grant the boy refugee status, his case is an example of international and ________ migration.
forced
human rights
voluntary
economic
transitional
Suburbanization of more developed countries is due to...
expanding urban territory
increasing employment opportunities
desire to change lifestyle
regional development
global investment
You might propose a(n) ________ program for your country if you wanted to hire a large number of manual laborers from neighboring countries to build a large dam or canal, with the understanding that they would not be granted any other privileges or legal status in your country, after the project is finished.
guest worker
unauthorized worker
unauthorized hiring
engineering obstacle
chain migration
An example of ________ is the migration of doctors and engineers to the United States after they have received years of government-financed schooling and training in Colombia.
brain drain
chain drain
chain migration
net migration
cohort migration
Judge which of the following is the strongest example of a state government attempting to limit migration.
requiring police to stop cars that are driven by people who may be immigrants
requiring police to ask for citizenship documents after they have arrested someone
requiring immigrants to pay higher college tuition
allowing politicians to make anti-immigrant statements to the news media
allowing thousands of people to march either to support or oppose reforms to immigration
Which of the following is the result of chain migration?
the African Slave Trade
French Colonial Rule
The formation of Israel
San Francisco’s Chinatown
Colonization of the American Frontier
