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AP Human Geography Unit 2

Total questions: 89

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of questions are associated with population?

a)

Where and How

b)

Where and Why

c)

Why and How

d)

What and Why

2.

When was the population the largest?

a)

Right now

b)

18th Century

c)

19th Century

d)

20th Century

3.

What is the world population?

a)

About 7.4 billion

b)

About 7.5 billion

c)

About 7.6 billion

d)

About 7.7 billion

4.

What is demography?

a)

The scientific study of people.

b)

The study of demographics.

c)

The scientific study of population characteristics.

d)

None of the above.

5.

What are the two thing involved in the study of overpopulation?

a)

The relationship between the number of people and the availability of resources.

b)

The relationship between men and women.

c)

The relationship between the number of jobs and resources.

d)

The relationship between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate.

6.

What is carrying capacity?

a)

The number of resources a country has.

b)

When an area's population exceeds the capacity of the enviroment.

c)

The number of people in a country.

d)

When a country has too many people in it.

7.

On a _____ scale, overpopulation could be a threat.

a)

national

b)

worldwide

c)

state/province

d)

local

8.

What is a census?

a)

The most important data source for the population.

b)

The number of people in a country.

c)

The most important form of government.

d)

The number of people in a city.

9.

What type of people, MOST LIKELY, do not fill out the census?

a)

Illegal immigrants and legal immigrants.

b)

Homeless people and legal aliens.

c)

Lazy people.

d)

Homeless and illegal immigrants.

10.

Where is 2/3 of the world's population?

a)

East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

b)

Southeast Asia, North America, South America, and Europe.

c)

Africa, North America, Europe, and East Asia.

d)

Antarctica, Austrialia, Europe and Asia.

11.

In East Asia, what country do most people live in?

a)

Japan

b)

North Korea

c)

China

d)

South Korea

12.

Where do most people live in Europe?

a)

Cities.

b)

Farms.

c)

Suburbs.

d)

Mountain areas.

13.

In Southeast Asia, what country do most people live in?

a)

The Philippines.

b)

Indonesia.

c)

Thailand

d)

Singapore.

14.

What is ecumene?

a)

Anything on Earth's surface.

b)

A portion of the Earth is occupied by humans.

c)

All the animals on Earth's surface.

d)

A portion of Earth's surface is occupied by permanent human settlement.

15.

What are the components of dry land?

a)

Too dry for farming and contains natural resources.

b)

Great farming and has no natural resources.

c)

Too dry for farming and no natural resources.

d)

None of the above.

16.

What are the components of wet lands?

a)

Mild precipitation with a normal amount of nutrients in the soil.

b)

Lots of precipitation and fewer nutrients in the soil.

c)

Mild precipitation with fewer nutrients in the soil.

d)

Lots of precipitation with lots of nutrients in the soil.

17.

What are the components of cold lands?

a)

Very few animals and no crops.

b)

Lots of crops but very few animals.

c)

Lots of animals but very few crops.

d)

Lots of animals and lots of crops.

18.

What are the components of high lands?

a)

Low snow-covered mountains that are close to the poles.

b)

High mountains but small population.

c)

Low flat mountains, near the equator, small population.

d)

Snow-covered high mountains, near the equator, and large population.

19.

What is arithmetic density?

a)

The number of people supported by a unit or farmland.

b)

The total number of people is divided by an area.

c)

The ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of farmland.

d)

None of the above.

20.

What is physiological density?

a)

The number of people supported by a unit of farmland.

b)

The total number of people is divided by an area.

c)

The ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of farmland.

d)

None of the above.

21.

What is agricultural density?

a)

The total number of people divided by an ara.

b)

The number of people supported by a unit of farmland.

c)

The ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of farmland.

d)

None of the above.

22.

When does the population increase?

a)

When more people are born than die.

b)

When more people die that are born.

c)

When the natural increase rate is high.

d)

When the same amount of people are born than die.

23.

What is CBR?

a)

Total death rates out of 1,000 people.

b)

Total birth rates out of 1,000 people.

c)

How many people are born in a year.

d)

How many people die in a year.

24.

What is CDR?

a)

Total death rates out of 1,000 people.

b)

Total birth rate out of 1,000 people.

c)

How many people die per year.

d)

How many people are born per year.

25.

How do you find the NIR?

a)

CDR+CBR

b)

CDR-CBR

c)

CBR-CDR

d)

CBR x CDR

26.

What is life expectancy?

a)

How long a person will live.

b)

The average number of years a newborn will live.

c)

The average number a person will life based on their family.

d)

How long a person has left after they have been diagnosed with a left-threatening disease.

27.

What is the total fertility rate?

a)

How many children a woman wants.

b)

The average number of children a woman would have based off society.

c)

The average number of children women will have in their whole life.

d)

The average number of children women will have between 15-49.

28.

What is the demographic transition model?

a)

It tracks how the population changes as the country develop.

b)

It tracks how much the country develops.

c)

It tracks how the population changes.

d)

It tracks how people have impacted the population throughout the world.

29.

What is migration?

a)

renting a house in Italy

b)

visiting your family

c)

a permanent move to a new location

d)

a permanent move to the same location

30.

What is stage 1?

a)

High growth, high CBR, declining CDR, and high NIR.

(Industrial Revolution)

b)

Low growth, high CDR, high CBR, and low NIR.

c)

Moderate growth, declinging CBR, moderatley decling CDR, and moderate NIR.

d)

Low growth, very low CBR, slightly increasing CDR, and zero or negative NIR.

31.

which would be an example of circular migration

a)

the population of college goes down in the summer

b)

flying to Florida in winter

c)

college kids going home on October 27th

d)

kids going to the toy store

32.

What is stage 2?

a)

High growth, high CBR, declining CDR, and high NIR.

(Industrial Revolution)

b)

Low growth, high CDR, high CBR, and low NIR.

c)

Moderate growth, declinging CBR, moderatley decling CDR, and moderate NIR.

d)

Low growth, very low CBR, slightly increasing CDR, and zero or negative NIR.

33.

migration FROM a place is what

a)

immigration

b)

net migration

c)

circular migration

d)

emigration

34.

What is stage 3?

a)

High growth, high CBR, declining CDR, and high NIR.

(Industrial Revolution)

b)

Low growth, high CDR, high CBR, and low NIR.

c)

Moderate growth, declinging CBR, moderatley decling CDR, and moderate NIR.

d)

Low growth, very low CBR, slightly increasing CDR, and zero or negative NIR.

35.

What is stage 4?

a)

High growth, high CBR, declining CDR, and high NIR.

(Industrial Revolution)

b)

Low growth, high CDR, high CBR, and low NIR.

c)

Moderate growth, declinging CBR, moderatley decling CDR, and moderate NIR.

d)

Low growth, very low CBR, slightly increasing CDR, and zero or negative NIR.

36.

A person migrating TO a place is

a)

immigration

b)

emigration

c)

refugees

d)

forced

37.

Why does the CBR drop?

a)

People are poor.

b)

People are having children later, which results in less children.

c)

People don't want children.

d)

People are divorcing more and having less children.

38.

the difference between the number of emigrants and immigrants

a)

population density

b)

positive skew

c)

net migration

d)

total migration rate (TMR)

39.

Who is at more risk in terms of health care?

a)

Woman

b)

Men

c)

Both

d)

Animals

40.

how many percent of migrants are international

a)

38%

b)

3%

c)

7%

d)

27%

41.

Which of the following is NOT the largest flows of migration

a)

latin america - north america

b)

china - europe

c)

south asia - europe

d)

south asia - southeast asia

42.

How do babies go missing?

a)

Parents lose them.

b)

Killing babies.

c)

Abortion and at birth.

d)

People steal babies from the hospital.

43.

What is the sex ratio?

a)

The number of children per 100 adults.

b)

The number of people in the world.

c)

The number of females per 100 males.

d)

The number of males per 100 females.

44.

what is forced migration

a)

when people are forced out of there country or have no other choice because of cultural or agricultural problems

b)

when people leave there country for better job oppurintiites

c)

when people leave because they don't like the weather

d)

when people stay in there country

45.

what is voluntary migration

a)

migrants who have to flee

b)

migrants who choose to move because of economic reasons

c)

migrants who stay in the same place

d)

migrants who leave because there dictator will kill them

46.

What is the maternal mortality rate?

a)

The yearly amount of infant births per 100,000

b)

The monthly amount of deaths per 1,000, caused by pregnancy.

c)

The yearly amount of deaths per 100,000, caused by pregnancy.

d)

None of the above.

47.

what is internal migration

a)

movement between countries

b)

movement within one region

c)

movement into different countries

d)

permanent moving within the same country

48.

What does a population pyramid show?

a)

The country's population's age and gender.

b)

Percentage of people in 5-year groups.

c)

Males on right and females on left.

d)

The exact population of a country.

49.

On a population pyramid, what does a HIGH CBR show?

a)

Wide base.

b)

Small base.

c)

Wide top.

d)

Small top.

50.

what is interregional migration

a)

movement between regions

b)

movement within the same country

c)

movement between countries

d)

movement within 1 region

51.

On a population pyramid, what does a Low CBR show?

a)

Wide base.

b)

Small base.

c)

Wide top.

d)

Small top.

52.

what is intraregional migration

a)

permenent moving wihtin a country

b)

movement between regions

c)

movement within 1 region

d)

movement to different regions

53.

What did Thomas Malthus think?

a)

The world's population was not growing.

b)

The world's population was growing too fast for food production.

c)

The world's population was growing at a good face in terms of food production.

d)

None of the above.

54.

whats the biggest internal migration

a)

christmas

b)

thanksgiving

c)

easter

d)

Chinese new year

55.

what was the 1st era of migration

a)

settlement of colonists

b)

slaves coming to america

c)

indians setelling in great britain

d)

native Americans moving to arizona

56.

who came in the second era

a)

indians

b)

haitians

c)

europeans

d)

arabians

57.

the third era happened in the 1970's and who came

a)

latin americans and asians

b)

asians and more europeans

c)

latin americans and more europeans

d)

latin americans, asians and arabics

58.

with any migration what is the pattern of where people go

a)

suburban to rural

b)

rural to urban

c)

urban to rural

d)

rural to suburban

59.

what is counterurbanization

a)

people are immigrating into urban areas than emigrating from them

b)

urbanizing is going down as more things get industrialized

c)

people are immigrating into rural areas than emigrating from them

d)

people are moving to more urban parts of the world

60.

Reasons for migrating can be becuase of push factors

a push factor is

a)

induces people to move out their present location

b)

there are more jobs

c)

moving becuase of your job

d)

moving to be with your wife

61.

A pull factor is

a)

something that induces someone to mve out of there country

b)

something that makes someone leave bc of persecution

c)

induces people to move into a new location

d)

induces people to have to flee

62.

what is a refugee

a)

people who have voluntary migrated from their homes and don't fear coming back

b)

people who leave their country so they can go travel and see the world

c)

people who ahve been forced to migrate because they have a conspiracy theory

d)

people who have been forced to migrate from their homes and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group or political opinion

63.

what are intervening obstacles

a)

an environment that makes migration easier

b)

how people migrate

c)

an obstacle that allows people to migrate

d)

an environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration

64.

what is an intervening opportunity

a)

something that hiders migration

b)

this likelihood is influenced most by the opportunities to settle at the destination, less by distance or population pressure at the starting point.

c)

moving because you are being forced out

d)

religious persecution influences you to leave

65.

People who enter the United States without proper documents are called

a)

aliens

b)

illegal aliens

c)

unauthorized immigrants

d)

illegal immigrants

66.

what is a brain drain

a)

Well-educated young people leave their native country for better job and teaching opportunities in North America and Europe

b)

well-educated people staying in their country for job opportunities in their region

c)

well educated people leaving their country for worse job opportunities

d)

people staying in their country because the jobs are better

67.

Migration of people to a specific location, because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there is what

a)

family migration

b)

optional migration

c)

internal migration

d)

chain migration

68.

These are all law's of ravenstein except

a)

Most migrants go a short distance.

People who migrate long distances tend to go to urban areas.

b)

Migrants will migrate where they don't speak the same language

c)

People already living in rural areas are more likely to migrate than those in urban areas.

d)

Most migrants are adults. Women are more likely to migrate internally. Men are more likely to migrate internationally.

69.

chain migration can also happen as step migration

Step Migration is

a)

migration that happens when they are forced to step out of there location and move somewhere else

b)

migration that occurs from intervening obstacles

c)

migration that follows a path of one step

d)

migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final destination

70.

The weird thing that's happening right now is counter urbanization that people have not seen yet but is a trend

counter urbanization is

a)

people are emigrating from rural areas

b)

people are immigrating into rural areas than emigrating from them

c)

people are moving to the cities

d)

people are immigrating to deserts

71.

what is urbanization

a)

when countries have farms all over

b)

when countries have there industrial revolution and create new technologies and medicines

c)

when countries build more ports

d)

when people have large families

72.

what is a population center?

a)

average location of everyone in the country, the center of “population gravity”

b)

average location of all the world centers in the world

c)

average location of all the immigrants center of "population gravity"

d)

average location of all refugees

73.

Undocumented immigrants are unauthorized immigrants

who calls them undocumented

a)

Term preferred by academic observers as a neutral term

b)

term preferred by groups that want tougher restrictions

c)

term preferred by groups that advocate for their rights

d)

term preferred by groups that run immigration

74.

Migration of African Americans

a)

africa to America

b)

africa to europe

c)

africa to asia

d)

africa to phillipeans

75.

What did Thomas Malthus think?

a)

He thought that the world was going to reach its carrying capacity.

b)

He thoughts that the world was growing at a steady pace.

c)

He thought that people were dying too quickly and that women needed to have more children.

d)

He thought that the world was doing great.

76.

Thomas Malthus believed ____ sex = ____ CBR

a)

NO and HIGH

b)

YES and HIGH

c)

NO and LOW

d)

NO and HIGH

77.

Thomas Malthus believed which of the following:

a)

The world's carrying capacity was a major problem.

b)

The world's carrying capacity was not a problem.

c)

The world's carrying capacity was a minor problem.

d)

None of the above.

78.

If a country has a lack of resourcs and another country has an excess amount why do they not share often?

a)

It is expensive.

b)

It is time-consuming

c)

Countries do not have time for other countries' problems.

d)

It is time-consuming and expensive

79.

Anti-Malthus people thought which of the following?

a)

The population will go DOWN along with the carrying capacity.

b)

The carrying capacity will go UP at a much faster rate than the population.

c)

The population will go UP, but so will the carrying capacity.

d)

None of the above.

80.

What did African countries think?

a)

More people = More power

b)

Less people = More power

c)

More power = Bigger countries

d)

Les power = Smaller countries

81.

When was the 3RD agricultural revolution and what caused it?

a)

1940s and more equipment

b)

1950s and better fertilizer

c)

1960s and more equipment

d)

1970s and better fertilizer

82.

What does a STAGE 5 population pyramid have?

a)

Females live longer, wide top, and narrow base.

b)

Males live longer, narrow top, and wide base.

c)

Females live longer, narrow top, and narrow base.

d)

Males live longer, wide top, and wide base.

83.

What is an anti-natalist policies?

a)

Two children policy.

b)

One child policy.

c)

Have over five children.

d)

Have no children.

84.

Why are diseases more common in poor countries?

a)

Because in poor countries it is unsanitary and medicine is hard to afford.

b)

Because in poor countries no one cares about hygiene.

c)

Because in poor countries people play with dirt more.

d)

Because in poor countries people don't have money.

85.

How did EBOLA spread?

a)

Cultural diffusion.

b)

People sneezed.

c)

Relocation diffusion.

d)

Contagious diffusion.

86.

Where is the US population cluster

a)

northeast to the west coast

b)

west coast to the northeast

c)

northwest to the south coast

d)

south coast to the northwest

87.

What is the interregional migration of china

a)

the flow is urban to rural because they need more farmers

b)

Still considered developing, the flow is rural to urban where jobs are more likely to be

c)

the flow is more people are going to the coast because of the rapid technology people can work

d)

the flow is more people are going into the cities because they don't want to live in beach areas

88.

the intraregional migration of Brazil is

a)

like china people are moving into cities

b)

Like Brazil people live in large cities on the east coast

c)

Like America people are moving into rural area

d)

Like China, most people live in large cities on the east coast

89.

the interregional migration of Indonesia is

a)

the government is trying to get more people onto the island because the country is too populated

b)

The government is trying to move people off the island of Java (where 57% live) to less populated islands

c)

the government is moving people to other counties while they figure out their water

d)

the government s trying to get more people into less urbanized people