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Chapter 3 Reading Check Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is NOT a population distribution pattern?

a)

Uniform

b)

Linear

c)

Clustered

d)

Abstract

e)

Random

2.

Which example shows how the environment impacts population distribution?

a)

War in Ukraine will caused women and children to migrate to Poland.

b)

River valleys across the world have long supported dense populations; early civilizations formed along the Nile, Tigris-Euphrates,

c)

The forced migration of millions of enslaved peoples during European Colonization.

d)

China's one child policy.

e)

Central Asians migrated into Roman territory.

3.

Which three terms define how geographers measure population density?

a)

Arithmetic

b)

Agricultural

c)

Malthusian

d)

Physiological

e)

Economic

4.

Which example shows how human factors impacts population distribution?

a)

East Asians have settled near the coast by rivers and fertile soil.

b)

Most of the population lives in Temperate climate zones.

c)

The forced migration of millions of enslaved peoples during European Colonization.

d)

Europeans use the rivers as water sources for agriculture.

e)

Populations avoid mountains due to air quality and rocky terrain.

5.

What is the name given to the maximum population size an environment can sustain?

a)

Population Density

b)

Physiological Density

c)

Population Distribution

d)

Carrying Capacity

e)

Agricultural Density

6.

Which of the three methods for calculating population density would be most helpful in assessing a country's carrying capacity? 

a)

Arithmetic Density

b)

Agricultural Density

c)

Economic Density

d)

Carrying Density

e)

Physiological Density

7.

What do geographers determine by taking the number of people in a dependent age group (under age 15 or age 65 and older) and dividing by the number of people in the working-age group (ages 15 to 64), multiplied by 100?

a)

Dependency ratio

b)

Age ratio

c)

Sex ratio

d)

Children ratio

e)

None of these

8.

Which is NOT an example of the impact of data beneath dependency ratios?

a)

Families are having fewer babies.

b)

Better health care is allowing people to live longer.

c)

Cancer treatment prolonged elder patients lives.

d)

One Child policy impacted the number of babies born.

e)

The work force is growing.

9.

Which TWO of the following is used to measure fertility?

a)

Child Birth Rate

b)

Sex Ratio

c)

Total Fertility Rate

d)

Mortality Rate

e)

Life Expectancy

10.

Which of the following is an example of a population pyramid?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)