Which of the following statements is FALSE concerning the world's population?
Artificial birth control use is higher in core countries.
Population growth rates differ from place to place.
A large population of uneducated women usually results in high fertility rates.
High fertility rates tend to be in overpopulated areas.
Population is evenly distributed over the Earth's surface.
Which of the following statements about migration is INCORRECT?
Many migrants leave their homes because of war.
Environmental problems cause many people to migrate.
Nearly all migrants leave their homes because they want to change political parties.
Many migrants go to poor countries which cannot accommodate more people.
Most migrants in the world leave to pursue a "better life".
The arithmetic population density for a country or region is determined by dividing the total:
Population by the number of farmers.
Area of square miles by five
Minority population of the area.
Population by the total land area.
Modern birth control devices
tend to be used in developed countries where people are educated & technology is highly valued.
are largely used and most effective in countries where women are generally well-educated.
such as pills, injections and patches are cheap for all women everywhere in the world.
All of the above.
A & B only
Only a fraction of the Earth's surface is actually livable and farmable land. This land is called:
Arable
Alluvial
Available
Developed
Urbanized
A national policy encouraging its citizens to reduce the total fertility rate is known as
Pro-Natal
Neo-Natal
Post-Natal
Anti-Natal
Quasi-Natal
There were several maps in the text which showed population densities of East Asia. If one was to closely examine the East Asian population clusters, one would discover that the number of people per unit area tends to have a pattern of decline. Use mental map skills and knowledge to indicate which one of the following shows this general pattern of most population to least population in East Asia.
South to North
North to South
The interior to the coast
The coast to the interior
Northern coats to southern coast
If a population increase by uniform amounts during a series of equal periods, the increase is said to be:
Linear
Compounded
Exponential
Miniscule
Doubling
Using your knowledge of natural increase, if a population is growing at an average rate of 2 percent, the doubling time would be approximately _____ years.
20
25
50
35
10
Doubling Time (DT) is calculated as
DT = RNI + TRR
70/RNI = DT
DT = OP + B - D + I - E
2.1% / DT = 35 years
Using your knowledge of population density and distribution, which two do the four boxes have the highest distribution of triangles?
1,2
3,4
4,1
2,3
Which of the two of the four boxes have the highest density of triangles?
In 1798, Thomas Malthus published an essay in which he claimed that population increased at a(n) _______ rate, while the means of subsistence grew at a(n) ________ rate.
Geometric; Arithmetic
Cultural ; Ethnic
Arithmetic ; Geometric
Declining ; Increasing
Exponential ; Geometric
The world's population can best be described as generally concentrated in
East Asia and Southern Europe
Northwestern North America and South Asia
South Asia and East Asia
Europe and Eastern South America
Western Africa and Southeast Asia
Which of the following is the same term as a megalopolis?
Mega city
Urbanization
Conurbation
Metropolis
Confluence
Which of these BEST characterizes population control measures of the one child policy used by the Chinese government from 1980-2000?
Use of the IUDs (coils)
Guaranteed jobs
late marriage
Free healthcare
All of the above
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 patterns
Annexation of new territory
Possible loss of territory
External occlusionary forces
What is the statistic that reports the number of deaths per thousand people in a given year called?
Adjusted Death Rate
Crude Death Rate
Remittance Rate
Actual Growth Rate
Age-sex mortality rate
Which of the following terms describes the phenomenon where a country's population may continue to expand long after fertility rates have been cut dramatically?
high stationary
gravity model
demographic momentum
doubling time
exponential growth
Since WW2, internal migration streams in the US have been moving generally from:
West to East and South to North
West to East and North to South
Completely Static
Easy to west and south to north
east to west and north to south
Population Growth is exceptionally fast from both migration and total fertility in which of the following cities
Lagos
London
New York City
Tokyo
Paris
Population growth from fertility at the country scale in the 21st century will generally
increase in places like western europe
decrease in the developing world
increase in the developing world
hold steady in the developing world
decrease in places like eastern Africa
It is easier to migrate today because:
most countries in the world allow unrestricted immigration
many countries need workers and help pay moving costs
global religious freedom encourages migration
since 2001, no country forbids emigration
transportation and information systems are better
Which technical advance made the sunbelt a more desirable living area as a destination for internal immigrants?
better roads and air transport
more cities with better services
air conditioning
better television advertising
none of these
One of the "laws" of migration as derived by Ravenstein states that:
urban residents are more migratory than inhabitants of rural areas
urban residents tend to be less religious than rural folk
rural inhabitants hardly ever migrate
urban residents are less migratory than inhabitants of rural areas
In 2004, Egypt's population of 6,319 per square mile is its ____________ density, while Egypt's population of 190 per square mile is its __________ density.
arithmetic; physiologic
child mortality ; infant mortality
physiologic ; arithmetic
immigration ; emigration
internal; external
In the US there is a considerable migration flow of people over 60 years old headed to Florida,Arizona, or another sunbelt locales. These people:
are 'snowbirds' fleeing northern winters
like to travel across the country
take the new, low-pay industrial jobs
are fleeing poor economic conditions
are seeking service sector jobs
During the years of the Transatlantic Slave Trade from 1701-1810, the greatest number of Africans were taken to plantations in the caribbean, Central America and:
southern US
Eastern North America
western south America
Gulf states of the US
The measure of the number of children born to women of childbearing age in the population is called the:
actual birth rate
crude birth rate
natural increase rate
adjusted birth rate
total fertility rate
Which of these countries does NOT fall into the category of at or near negative growth?
Russia
Italy
Germany
Sweden
all of these at near negative growth
Which of the following scenarios would occur in the third stage of the demographic transition?
Couples ( especially women ) begin to utilize more family planning
Someone loses his job as a grave digger
Very few grandparents are around to see their grandchildren
A mother sobs over the graves of her six children dead of typhoid
Which of the following countries would you predict has the highest CDR?
Ukraine
Japan
Indonesia
Sierra Leone
Which of the following is most accurate about push/pull factors?
Push factors are usually incorrectly perceived by local people
Pull factors, such as a local civil war, cause people to leave
Push factors involve very little local knowledge
Pull factors tend to be more vague and overly positive in perception
Push factors do not play a major role in migratory movements
All of the following about a gender ratio of 117:100 are true EXCEPT
117 is the number of males and 100 is the number of females
son preference and female infanticide are prime factors in creating this ratio
A large number of females will not be able to find a spouse
The ratio above would likely be in India or China
The ratio above may indicate lower status of women
Ravenstein's Gravity Model of migration stated all of these EXCEPT
Net migration is only a fraction of gross migration between two places
The majority of migrants move only a short distance.
rural residents are far less likely to migrate than their urban counterparts
Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults
Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big city destinations
Which of the following is FALSE with regard to current US demographics?
White fertility rates are generally the lowest of any US ethnic group
Non-whites are soon projected to the largest minority by 2043
African-American fertility rates are higher than white rates.
The highest total fertility rates occur in Utah.
white fertility rates are generally the highest of any US ethnic group
The number of deaths per 1000 population between the first and fifth birthdays is known as
Natural increase rate
infant mortality rates
crude death rate
total death rate
child mortality rate
Given a CBR of 23/1000 and a CDR of 8/1000, the RNI expressed as percentage would be
15%
3.1%
1.5%
31%
None of these
A foreign person who temporarily lives and works in a host country and usually performs low-level jobs ( e.g., agriculture, domestic labor, industrial) in countries with workforce shortages are known as
asylum seekers
remittance workers
guest workers
snowbird workers
displaced workers
African-Americans moved in the Great Migration from the south in the 1910s & 1920s and headed to destinations like Detroit, Chicago, or Cleveland -- only to settle in places like St. Louis and Cincinnati are examples of
Cyclic migration
Step migration
Forced Migration
distance decay
intervening opportunity
The Boserup hypothesis indicated that
local farmers' agricultural production could help keep up with population growth
Malthus' claims that population would overtake food production
agricultural growth would far outpace population growth
Migration patterns center on fertility rates
A refugee
Is a person who has crossed an international border
Has a well-founded fear of being prosecuted because of race, religion, nationality, etc.
Is a person labor migrant who has come to country to work
Comes to work for the day and returns that same day
Shepherds animals according to the seasons
The "bare branches" refers to
China's dependency ratio issues
Large numbers of single adult men china
The lack of available wives for many men in China
Son preference by Chinese families
According to gapminder.org, HIV/AIDS is most prevalent in which of the following areas?
North Africa and Southwest Asia
South America and Southern Africa
Southern Africa and South Asia
The US and Central Africa
Australia and Central Asia
The US shut down immigration after WW1 for all of the following reasons except:
Chinese Exclusion Act
Assist African Americans in getting jobs in northern US cities
Negative experiences of participating in the worlds first global conflict
World-wide Spanish flu pandemic that killed 25,000,000+ people
Johnson and Reed act
Please wait - loading…