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In what stage of the demographic transition are most European countries?
1
2
3
4
This caused a jump in the worlds' population in the late 1700's and helped send England into stage 2:
the Renaissance
the Industrial Revolution
the Medical Revolution
the Scientific Revolution
Which of the following are part of EG Ravenstein’s (The Bloke with the cloke) Laws of Migration?
most migrants are male
most migrants move short distances
most long distance migrants move to large urban areas
all of the above
A country with a large amount of arable land and a small number of farmers will have a
low arithmetic density
high physiological density
low agricultural density
high agricultural density
A decline in a country's crude birth rate would result in an increase in that country's
life expectancy
doubling time
total fertility rate
natural increase rate
One demographic feature with the most significant future implications is that
the less developed countries have the highest combined crude death rate.
the natural increase rate is larger every year.
the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries.
there are fewer people in the world now than at the peak in the middle of the twentieth century.
Wilbur Zelinsky's model of migration predicted
migrants move most frequently for economic reasons.
intraregional migration is more important than interregional migration in terms of political and economic resources.
migration characteristics vary with the demographic transition.
women are more likely to migrate than men.
If your ancestors migrated to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s, barring any other evidence, you might strongly suspect that they originated in
Spain or Portugal.
Norway or England.
Italy or Poland.
Ireland or Germany.
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