WorksheetsAPHG UNIT 2 POPULATION
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
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
Life Expectancy
Doubling Time
Demographic Transition
The seasonal herding of animals from higher elevations in the summer to lower elevations in the winter is known as
Livestock Ranching
Transhumanance
Intercropping
Truck Farming
Which of the following is true of world population?
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The majority of the world's population lives in Latin America.
The most rapid growth is occurring in less developed countries.
There are fewer people in the world now than in the middle of the 20th century.
People are uniformly distributed across the earth.
The countries of Thailand and Poland have approximately the same arithmetic population density. From this we can conclude that the two countries have about the same
Level of output per farmer
Number of people per area of land
Standard of living
Large extended family
What English cleric and economist stated that, "our population will outgrow available supplies?"
Ester Boserup
James Rubenstein
Thomas Malthus
Justin Smith
What two ways can we slow population growth and decrease the CDR (Crude Death Rate) and the fertility rate?
education of women and access to contraception
better medicine and economic development
political stability and better medicine
access to contraception and political stability
Country X has a crude birth rate (CBR) of 45 and a crude death rate (CDR) of 15, while country 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? Choose three.
A shortage of food
Rising job market
Overcrowding
Sanitation and pollution problems
What does Total Fertility Rate (TFR) measure?
number of deaths per 1000 people in a year
average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime
number of births per 1000 people in a year
number of children that die before the age of one
The Earth's area of permanent human settlement is called
Transhumance
Hot Zone
Ecumene
Civilized world
Physiological Density is the relationship between
birth rates and death rates
farmers and arable land
people and land area
people and resources
Since immigrants generally move from poorer regions to wealthier ones, they often can afford to send money home to their family back home. These are called
Remittances
Push factors
Pull factors
Brain drain
This model incorporates birth, death, and natural increase.
Population Pyramid
Doubling Time
Demographic Transition
World Health Threats
In 2009, Sweden had a CBR of 10 and a CDR of 10. In what stage of demographic transition is Sweden?
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Under Stage 1 of the demographic transition model, the CBR and CDR 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 high dependency ratios
both have low life expectancies
neither are presently observed
Which of the following would BEST explain the population pyramid shown?
a country with a young population
a large university town
a retirement community
an industry that commonly hires males
According to the population pyramid shown, in2050 Japan will have what type of growth?
linear growth
rapid growth
negative growth
slow growth
In 2016, there were 33.69 million more men than women in China. This is a result of (Choose two).
China's One-Child Policy
Cultural preference of sons over daughters
High maternal mortality rate
Mass immigration of guest workers
Carrying capacity is the
amount of arable land available.
population it can support without significant environmental deterioration.
pattern of human distribution.
hierarchal division of people.
Neo-Malthusians believe that
our continued population will lead to the depletion of nonrenewable resources such as petroleum and metals.
only anti-natalist policies will work to stem the rise of population.
over population is only problematic in certain parts of the world.
Malthus was completely wrong about his predictions.
Effects of high population densities include (choose three)
lack of adequate housing
higher crime rate
pollution
growth in variety of crops
What does this population pyramid indicate?
large university town
guest workers
retirement community
war or conflict zone
Which of the following are push factors? (Choose three.)
Lack of jobs
Conflict
Improved healthcare
Pollution
One of the effects of Japan's aging population is
increased birth rate.
declining workforce.
the median age is 35.
unlimited childcare.
