Population Review #3
1.
There are four major and two minor population agglomerations in the world. What are the two
minor agglomerations?
Answer: West Africa and northeast North America
2. Which of the four major population agglomerations contains 1/9 of the world’s population?
Answer: Europe
3.
Define ecumene
Answer: portion of the Earth’s surface permanently occupied by humans; areas that are
habitable and inhabited by humans
4. Read the formula. Then identify which of the following is being calculated.
500 farmers divided by 1000 acres of arable land.
A. Physiological density
B. Psychological density
C. Agricultural density
D. Arithmetic density
Answer: C
5.
How is NIR calculated?
Answer: CBR-CDR. Then convert to a percentage.
6.
_______ occurs when a population is adding a fixed percentage of people to a growing population
each year.
A. Doubling
B. Arithmetic growth
C. Overpopulation
D. Exponential growth
E. Demographic accounting
Answer: D (When you add a fixed number of people to a growing population each year, it
is called arithmetic growth, but when you add a fixed percentage of people each year it
is exponential. Exponential growth is compound, since the same percentage is being
added to an increasing population each year; if the population is growing, then the same
percentage will include more people next year than it does this year)
7.
Life expectancy has increased
A. only in the most-developed countries
B. only in the least developed countries
C. owing to increased food production
D. worldwide
E. owing to the Green Revolution
Answer: D
8.
The demographic accounting equation does not take into account ___________ when calculating
a country’s population.
A. Death rates
B. Emigration
C. Natural increase rate over time
D. Instances when natural increase is negative
E. Immigration
Answer: C (The demographic accounting equation predicts a country’s future population on
the basis of current birth rates, death rates, immigration rates and emigration rates.
It is not always a very accurate prediction because these rates change dramatically over
time)
9.
The following quote would most reflect most closely which viewpoint?
“…overpopulation – or, even better, the “global population bomb” – is the world’s most pressing problem and
the cause of a large number of rights violations such as famine, hunger, war, violence, poverty etc.”
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Possibilism
Neo-Malthusian
Malthusian
A and B
A and C
Answer: B
A
B
C
10. Which of the following countries would have a population pyramid similar to “B” above?
A. Congo
B. Germany
C. Canada
D. United States
E. Singapore
Answer: A
11. Where would the population core of the United States be located?
A. West Coast – California
B. Southeast – Atlanta-Birmingham area
C. Mountain West – Colorado area
D. East Coast – New York-Washington D.C. area
E. Mid-West – Chicago-Detroit area
Answer: D