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AP Human Geography: Vocabulary Quiz Unit 2

Total questions: 57

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following terms refers to the pattern of people scattered over an area of Earth’s surface?

a)

Ecumene

b)

Population distribution

c)

Population clusters

d)

Physiological density

2.

Which of the following terms refers to heavily populated areas that demonstrate uneven distribution in global population?

a)

Population clusters

b)

Carrying capacity

c)

Population density

d)

Arithmetic density

3.

Which of the following terms refers to the permanently inhabited portion of the earth?

a)

Carrying capacity

b)

Ecumene

c)

Loam

d)

Agricultural density

4.

Which of the following terms refers to the measure of total population of people per unit of land area?

a)

Agricultural density

b)

Physiological density

c)

Carrying Capacity

d)

Population density

5.

What is the measure of the average number of people within a given area divided by the total land area?

a)

Physiological density

b)

Arithmetic density

c)

Agricultural density

d)

Carrying Capacity

6.

What is the measure of the average number of people per arable (farmable) land?

a)

Sustainable development

b)

Physiologic density

c)

Agricultural density

d)

Arithmetic density

7.

The pressure that people place on the land to produce food is measured by:

a)

Arithmetic density

b)

Physiological density

c)

Population concentration

d)

Stationary population level

8.

What is the measure of the number of farmers per unit of arable land?

a)

Agricultural hearth

b)

Physiological density

c)

Ecumene

d)

Agricultural density

9.

Which of the following terms refers to the region near the Great Lakes in North America which is characterized by heavy winter precipitation?

a)

Rust Belt

b)

Gun Belt

c)

Snow Belt

d)

Sun Belt

10.

The region of the U.S. defined by a warm and sunny climate that extends from the Southeast all the way across to the Southwest:

a)

Rust Belt

b)

Gun Belt

c)

Snow Belt

d)

Sun Belt

11.

Which of the following terms refers to a point on a two-dimensional map which would balance perfectly given the distribution of the population (supposing everyone in the population weighed the same amount)?

a)

Ecumene

b)

Carrying Capacity

c)

Equator

d)

Mean center of population

12.

Which of the following terms refers to the number of people an area can sustain without critically straining its resources?

a)

Crude death rate

b)

Demography

c)

Carrying capacity

d)

Dependency Ratio

13.

Which of the following terms refers to a group of people with a shared characteristic or trait?

a)

Clan

b)

Cohort

c)

Generation

d)

Composition

14.

The study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations is known as:

a)

Composition

b)

Gerontology

c)

Demography

d)

Nativism

15.

A visual representation of the distribution of a population of a country or region by age groups and sex is know as:

a)

Population pyramid

b)

Demographic transition model

c)

Boserup effect

d)

Scientific modeling

16.

A measure of the number of people aged 0-14 AND over 65, compared with the population of working-aged people 15 to 64 for a given country, territory, or geographic area, at a specific point in time, is known as:

a)

Sex Ratio

b)

Dependency ratio

c)

Total Fertility Rate

d)

Rate of Natural Increase

17.

Which of the following terms refers to the average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years (15-49)?

a)

Rate of fecundity

b)

Total fertility rate (TFR)

c)

Dependency ratio

d)

Family planning

18.

Which of the following terms refers to the average number of live births in a single year for every 1000 people in a population?

a)

Total fertility rate

b)

Crude birth rate

c)

Dependency rate

d)

Rate of natural increase

19.

Which of the following generations describes people born from 1946-1964 in the post World War II era?

a)

Silent Generation

b)

Baby Boomers

c)

Gen Alpha

d)

Millennials

20.

Which of the following generations describes people born between 1965-1980 who are now part of the working-age population?

a)

Generation X

b)

Generation Y

c)

Generation Z

d)

Gen Alpha

21.

Which of the following generations describes people born between 1981-1996?

a)

Silent Generation

b)

Generation X

c)

Baby Boomers

d)

Millennials

22.

Which of the following generations describes people born after the turn of the 21st Century?

a)

Millennials

b)

Generation Z

c)

Gen Alpha

d)

Baby Boomers

23.

Which of the following terms refers to the balance between genders within a specific population of people?

a)

Women's empowerment

b)

Sex ratio

c)

Dependency ratio

d)

Population density

24.

Which of the following terms refers to the average number of children needed to replace both parents and stabilize the population?

a)

Zero population growth

b)

Pro-natalism

c)

Replacement level fertility

d)

Rate of natural increase

25.

Which of the following terms refers to the average number of deaths in a single year for every 1000 people (in a population)?

a)

Infant mortality rate

b)

Maternal mortality rate

c)

Crude death rate

d)

Zero population growth

26.

Which of the following terms refers to the average number of infant deaths during the 1st year of life (per 1000)?

a)

Infant mortality rate

b)

Child mortality rate

c)

Maternal mortality rate

d)

Crude birth rate

27.

Which of the following terms refers to the difference between the number of births and deaths in a year?

a)

Total fertility rate

b)

Crude birth rate

c)

Doubling time

d)

Rate of natural increase

28.

Which of the following terms refers to the number of years it takes for a population to double in size?

a)

Rate of natural increase

b)

Total fertility rate

c)

Demographic shift

d)

Doubling time

29.

Which of the following terms refers to a significant, continuing increase in human population in modern times?

a)

Population explosion

b)

Rate of natural increase

c)

Total fertility rate

d)

Doubling time

30.

Which of the following terms refers to the situation in which birth and death rates are equal in a country?

a)

Population stagnation

b)

Zero population growth

c)

Rate of natural increase

d)

Age dependency ratio

31.

A tool that describes the relationship between population and the development of a country by analyzing birth rates, death rates, and the rate of natural increase, which demographers use to explain population change over time, is known as:

a)

Population Pyramid

b)

Epidemiological transition model

c)

Demographic transition model

d)

Mean center of population

32.

Which of the following terms refers to an increase in population due to medical innovation (modern medicine) causing a decrease in the death rate?

a)

Anti-natalist

b)

Life expectancy

c)

Aging population

d)

Epidemiologic transition

33.

Which of the following terms refers to policies that provide incentives for women to have children, typically in countries with declining population?

a)

Pro-natalist policies

b)

Anti-natalist

c)

Life expectancy

d)

Total fertility rates

34.

Which of the following terms refers to policies that encourage couples to limit the number of children they have?

a)

Pro-natalist policies

b)

Anti-natalist

c)

Life expectancy

d)

Total fertility rates

35.

Which of the following terms refers to the average number of years a person can expect to live?

a)

Life expectancy

b)

Infant mortality rate

c)

Aging Population

d)

Age dependency

36.

Which of the following terms describes a population in which the number of elderly people increases?

a)

Age dependency ratio

b)

Aging population

c)

Boomers

d)

Median age

37.

Which of the following terms refers to the movement of humans from one place to another?

a)

Mobility

b)

Emigration

c)

Migration

d)

Push factor

38.

Which of the following terms describes a situation in which a country loses younger, more educated and skilled people to migration to other locations?

a)

Intervening obstacle

b)

Intervening opportunity

c)

Push factor

d)

Brain drain

39.

Which of the following terms refers to characteristics that attract a person to a place and make that place more appealing to migrants?

a)

Intervening obstacles

b)

Intervening opportunities

c)

Push factors

d)

Pull factors

e)

Brain drain

40.

Which of the following terms refers to characteristics that make a person dissatisfied with their current locale and want to leave the place?

a)

Intervening obstacles

b)

Intervening opportunities

c)

Push factors

d)

Pull factors

e)

Brain drain

41.

Which of the following terms refers to events or barriers that complicates a migrant’s ability to reach their intended destination or that discourages people from migrating?

a)

Intervening obstacles

b)

Intervening opportunities

c)

Push factors

d)

Pull factors

e)

Brain drain

42.

Which of the following terms describes desirable options or possibilities in a nearer locale that draws migrants in and greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away?

a)

Intervening obstacles

b)

Intervening opportunities

c)

Push factors

d)

Pull factors

e)

Brain drain

43.

Which of the following terms refers to migration that is chosen willingly and typically is based on various push-pull factors?

a)

Voluntary migration

b)

Transnational migration

c)

Forced migration

d)

Guest worker

44.

Which of the following terms refers to migration that occurs across national boundaries?

a)

Transnational migration

b)

Forced migration

c)

Internal migration

d)

Transhumance

e)

Step migration

45.

Which of the following terms refers to migration that occurs within national boundaries?

a)

Transnational migration

b)

Forced migration

c)

Internal migration

d)

Transhumance

e)

Step migration

46.

Which of the following terms refers to migration that occurs when immigrants follow family and/or friends to the same destination?

a)

Transnational migration

b)

Forced migration

c)

Internal migration

d)

Chain migration

e)

Step migration

47.

Which of the following terms refers to migration that occurs in a series of stages from near to more distant destinations?

a)

Transnational migration

b)

Forced migration

c)

Internal migration

d)

Chain migration

e)

Step migration

48.

Which of the following terms describes a migration from the countryside to the city?

a)

Chain migration

b)

Rural-to-Urban migration

49.

Which of the following terms refers to a person with temporary permission to work in another country?

a)

Migrant

b)

Refugee

c)

Asylum seeker

d)

Guest worker

e)

Internally displaced person

50.

Which of the following terms refers to an individual, protected by law, who crosses national boundaries to seek safety from armed conflict or persecution based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or political opinion?

a)

Migrant

b)

Refugee

c)

Asylum seeker

d)

Guest worker

e)

Internally displaced person

51.

Which of the following terms refers to a person who leaves their home due to conflict, human rights abuse, war, or environmental catastrophes, but remains within their country’s borders to seek safety?

a)

Migrant

b)

Refugee

c)

Asylum seeker

d)

Guest worker

e)

Internally displaced person

52.

Which of the following terms refers to the act of a migrant leaving their home country

a)

Immigration

b)

Internal Migration

c)

Emigration

d)

Mobility

e)

Migration stream

53.

Which of the following terms refers to the act of a migrant arriving at a destination country?

a)

Immigration

b)

Internal Migration

c)

Emigration

d)

Mobility

e)

Migration stream

54.

Which of the following terms refers to an individual who flees their home country and applies for protection, but their request for sanctuary has yet to be processed?

a)

Migrant

b)

Refugee

c)

Asylum seeker

d)

Guest worker

e)

Internally displaced person

55.

Which of the following terms refers to the seasonal movement of herders who move livestock between summer and winter pasture?

a)

Transnational migration

b)

Forced migration

c)

Internal migration

d)

Transhumance

e)

Step migration

56.

Which of the following terms refers to migration against someone’s will, caused by forces outside one’s control like natural disasters, social conflicts, enslavement?

a)

Transnational migration

b)

Forced migration

c)

Internal migration

d)

Transhumance

e)

Step migration

57.

Which of the following terms refers to the mass dispersion of a population?

a)

Transnational migration

b)

Forced migration

c)

Diaspora

d)

Internal migration

e)

Transhumance