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Social Studies, History
9th -
12thgrade
APHG Unit 2 - Population/Migration
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Geographers might characterize as overpopulated a country where
there are too many people according to a standard economic measure of poverty.
the population numbers less than one million, but there is concern that the country's natural resources are adequate for only half that number.
the population numbers more than 100 million and there is concern about the finite limits of natural resources, although the resources available in the country seem adequate to that population.
the population numbers more than one million, and there is an average distribution of population to resources.
All of these answer choices are correct.
- 2. Multiple Choice
The Earth area of permanent human settlement is called the ...
hot zone.
civilized world
ecumene
subpolar region
geophenom
- 3. Multiple Choice
Comparing the charts, maps, and other data on the world population growth in this chapter, one can deduce that after the Ice Age, approximately 10,000 years ago Earth's human population...
changed little because of the availability of food from massive land animals.
began a long period of near stagnation, following a heretofore unprecedented period of rapid growth.
had not yet appeared on the surface of the planet.
began to increase at a heretofore unprecedented rate, following millennia of near stagnation.
increased at unprecedented rates for two centuries, then declined again.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Land suited for agriculture is called...
popuolation density
agricultural density
physiological land
arid land
arable land
- 5. Multiple Choice
We can calculate that a country would raise, or increase, its physiological density by...
increasing the amount of agricultural land
limiting the number of farmers.
increasing the areas of its urban centers
increasing the size of its population
limiting the number of farm animals
- 6. Multiple Choice
We can calculate that a country would raise, or increase, its agricultural density if it...
decreased the amount of agricultural land
decreased the number of farmers
increased the areas of its urban centers
increased the size of its population
decreased the number of farm animals
- 7. Multiple Choice
The average number of births women bear in their lifetimes is...
total birth rate
crude birth rate
total fertility rate
total increase rate
crude fertility rate
- 8. Multiple Choice
The fertility rate based on the number of live births per 1,000 residents is the...
crude birth rate
crude fertility rate
infant birth rate
natural increase rate
life expectancy at birth
- 9. Multiple Choice
It may sound strange to hear that the ________ is generally lower for less developed countries than for more developed countries, but the difference is correlated to the average age of each population.
crude birth rate
crude death rate
infant mortality rate
natural increase rate
total growth rate
- 10. Multiple Choice
Country A has a crude birth rate of 60 and a crude death rate of 15, while Country B has a CBR of 27 and a CDR of 9. Which country has a higher natural increase rate?
Country A
Country B
The NIR is the same in both countries
The rate depends on total population, so it can't be computed from this information.
The CDR has no direct correlation to the CBR, so it cannot help determine the NIR
- 11. Multiple Choice
Japan is dealing with economic concerns about an aging population by...
increasing the birth rate
encouraging women and older people to work
encouraging intermarriage between Japanese and non-Japanese workers
increasing its longstanding policy of moving polluting industries to China
encouraging immigration
- 12. Multiple Choice
The shape of a country's population pyramid...
is determined primarily by its crude birth rate
has no correlation to its crude death rate
cannot be used to estimate the country's dependency rate
cannot be used to estimate the country's sex ratio
is determined primarily by the combination of its crude birth rate and its crude growth rate
- 13. Multiple Choice
A European country's population pyramid would drastically change shape if it began to resemble...
the population pyramid of Japan
the age-sex diagram of the United States
the population pyramid of Nigeria
the age-sex diagram of Australia
the population pyramid of Canada
- 14. Multiple Choice
One demographic feature with the most significant future implications is that...
the natural increase rate is larger every year
there are fewer people in the world now than at the peak in the middle of the twentieth century
the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries
people are uniformly distributed across Earth
the less developed countries have the highest combined crude death rate
- 15. Multiple Choice
The highest natural increase rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?
stage 1
stage 2
stage 3
stage 4
stage 5
- 16. Multiple Choice
The highest crude death rates are found in countries in which stage of the demographic transition?
stage 1
stage 2
stage 3
stage 4
stage 5
- 17. Multiple Choice
Stages 1 and 4 of the Demographic Transition are similar in that...
both have low growth rates
both have high dependency ratios
both have low dependency ratios
both have low life expectancies
both have low death rates
- 18. Multiple Choice
More of the "why" questions of demographics can be addressed with data focusing on...
inventions
health
topography
"pollution exporting" policies
air quality
- 19. Multiple Choice
Evaluating the charts on world population growth in this chapter, we can deduce that ...
the world population decreased during the late 1950s although it increased through the rest of the 1900s, owing to fluctuations in the net increase rate
the annual growth rate has increased exponentially, especially between 30,000 and 20,000 years ago
the natural increase rate has been correlated to the growth in global population, and both have increased greatly in the last century
the natural increase rate will always rise
the natural increase rate has been negatively correlated to the doubling time, which is expressed in terms of years, yet the doubling time has not changed greatly in recent decades
- 20. Multiple Choice
Thomas Malthus concluded that...
population increased arithmetically while food production increased linguistically
the world's rate of population increase was higher than the development of food supplies
so-called "moral restraint" was producing lower crude birth rates
population growth was outpacing available resources in every country, according to algebraic calculations
crude birth rates must balance crude death rates
- 21. Multiple Choice
The ability to move from one location to another, either temporarily or permanently, is...
migration
mobility
net migration
voluntary migration
forced migration
- 22. Multiple Choice
A country has net in-migration if immigration ________ emigration.
equals
exceeds
is closer to net migration than
is less than
varies more than
- 23. Multiple Choice
Wilbur Zelinsky's model of migration predicted...
women are more likely to migrate than men
long migration distances are more likely than short
migration characteristics vary with the demographic transition
intraregional migration is more important than interregional migration in terms of political and economic resources
migrants move most frequently for economic reasons
- 24. Multiple Choice
Most of the migrants in a country once moved from its eastern provinces to its western provinces, but after economic conditions changed, more people began migrating from rural to urban areas. This can be judged to be an example of a migration ________.
transition
chain
counterurbanization
economy
force
- 25. Multiple Choice
Which of the following people would you predict to be most likely to engage in voluntary migration in the near future?
A teenaged girl whose family's home has just been destroyed by a volcanic eruption, which has also rendered the entire valley uninhabitable
A youth whose village has been identified by the central government as harboring and providing material support to an armed rebel group in the midst of a civil war
The dictator of a Southwest Asian country who has just 'won' another fraudulent election
A youth whose parents have just been murdered because they helped form a labor union in a traditionally exploited province of a developing country
A teenaged girl in China whose rural family has enough food to eat but lacks the money to expand the size of their house, and would like to plan to send a younger sibling to college in the future
- 26. Multiple Choice
A boy migrated from Honduras through Guatemala and Mexico, then entered the United States without immigration documents, because members of his ethnic group were being targeted for torture or assassination in his home country. Although the U.S. government does not grant the boy refugee status, his case is an example of international and ________ migration.
forced
human rights
voluntary
economic
transitional
- 27. Multiple Choice
Which statement most accurately describes the motivations of the historic European and current Latin American immigrants to the United States?
Both were and are motivated primarily by economic factors
Migrants from Europe were fleeing religious persecution while migrants from Latin America are motivated by economic factors
Both were and are motivated by a desire to join family members already in the United States
Migrants from Europe mostly spoke English while migrants from Latin American mostly speak Spanish
Both were and are motivated by famine in their home countries
- 28. Multiple Choice
Suburbanization of more developed countries is due to...
expanding urban territory
increasing employment opportunities
desire to change lifestyle
regional development
global investment
- 29. Multiple Choice
Judge which of the following is an historical example of a cultural push factor.
Many of the first Europeans to settle in Australia migrated as prisoners after being sentenced to "transportation" in the United Kingdom and Ireland
The British government allowed most of the population of Montserrat to migrate elsewhere in the 1990s after volcanic eruptions devastated large parts of the island
Many European farmers in the late 1800s chose to migrate to North America, as well as to Latin American countries where they felt that political and economic conditions would favor them
Changing climates likely encouraged the early migrations of hunter-gatherers
the United States actively sought Mexican agricultural laborers during and after World War
- 30. Multiple Choice
You might propose a(n) ________ program for your country if you wanted to hire a large number of manual laborers from neighboring countries to build a large dam or canal, with the understanding that they would not be granted any other privileges or legal status in your country, after the project is finished.
guest worker
unauthorized worker
unauthorized hiring
engineering obstacle
chain migration
- 31. Multiple Choice
An example of ________ is the migration of doctors and engineers to the United States after they have received years of government-financed schooling and training in Colombia.
brain drain
chain drain
chain migration
net migration
cohort migration
- 32. Multiple Choice
Judge which of the following is the strongest example of a state government attempting to limit migration.
requiring police to stop cars that are driven by people who may be immigrants
requiring police to ask for citizenship documents after they have arrested someone
requiring immigrants to pay higher college tuition
allowing politicians to make anti-immigrant statements to the news media
allowing thousands of people to march either to support or oppose reforms to immigration
- 33. Multiple Choice
An informal study found that college students who lived in dorms near the cafeteria were more likely to eat on campus compared to college students who lived far from the cafeteria. Which principle of migration BEST explains this phenomenon?
Complementarity
Transferability
Intervening Opportunity
Gravity Model
Distance Decay
- 34. Multiple Choice
Based on the theory of distance decay, a resident of London is likely to migrate to which world city?
Paris, France
Rome, Italy
Johannesburg, South Africa
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Shanghai, China
- 35. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is the result of chain migration?
the African Slave Trade
French Colonial Rule
The formation of Israel
San Francisco’s Chinatown
Colonization of the American Frontier
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