Unit 2 Questions
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Which of the following is an example of a push factor?
a. cultural tolerance
d. economic recession
b. Job Growth
e. all of the above
c. good agricultural conditions
2. Stage 2 of the demographic transition is characterized by:
a. arithmetic growth.
d. zero growth.
b. moderate growth.
e. low growth.
c. high growth.
3. Which of the following maps would work best for displaying the different crude birth rates of a country?
a. Choropleth Thematic Map
d. Isoline Topographic
b. Mercatur Projection
e. Robinson Projection
c. Dot Density Map
4. The S-curve is best used to illustrate which geographic principle?
a. The tendency for cities to be associated
d. The graph that demonstrates the migration
with each other based on their population
route for migrants in World War II
sizes.
b. The exponential growth of human
e. the openness and stability of countriesver
population over time
time
c. The model that describes the rise and
decline of population growth as countries
industrialize
5. What revolution coincided with the world’s population explosion during the 19th century?
a. Second agricultural revolution
d. Third agricultural revolution
b. First agricultural revolution.
e. Demographic revolution
c. Scientific revolution
6. Total fertility rate is NOT closely correlated with which of the following?
a. Industrial output
d. Economic development
b. Gender empowerment
e. literacy
c. Education
7. The United States’s demographic data would differ from Venezuela’s in that the U.S. has
a. a lower average life expectancy
d. more people who are rural dwellers
b. a much higher percentage of women
e. a larger percentage of people considered
dependents.
c. a higher average life expectancy
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Students in City Y have come up with a new flavor of ice cream. If their innovation spreads hierarchically,
which city’s residents will be the last to try the flavor?
a. Z
d. U
b. R
e. P
c. W
Over time, technological advances have increased, allowing people to live in regions previously
uninhabitable, this technology has:
a. decreased the world’s Crude Death Rate. d. increased the size of the ecumene.
b. had little effect on the population of the
e. decreased the size of the ecumene.
earth.
c. increased the world’s Crude Birth Rate.
Which statement would best fit the Gravity Model in relation to migration?
a. New York and Los Angeles are not linked d. New York and Los Angeles are linked due
at all because of their distance.
to their proximity to ports.
b. New York and Los Angeles are linked due e. New York and Los Angeles are not linked
to their populations.
due to their populations.
c. New York and Los Angeles are closely
linked based on their distance.
What is the population statistic that tells us the level of fertility at which a population will have just enough
births to replace parents and compensate for early deaths?
a. Replacement Level Fertility
d. Crude Death Rate
b. Crude Birth Rate
e. Total Fertility Rate
c. Mortality Rate
During the late 1800s, an important pull factor for immigrants to the United States was:
a. a potato famine in Ireland.
d. political persecution in Russia
b. political unrest of Germany and Eastern
e. the Industrial Revolustion in the U.S.
Europe
c. forced migration of slaves from Africa.
____ 13. Which of the following is the best description of global migration patterns today?
a. People are moving from more developed d. People are moving from areas with colder
countries to less developed countries.
climates to areas with warmer climates
b. People are moving from the Eastern
e. People are moving from the Southern
Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere.
Hemisphere to the Northern Hemisphere.
c. People are moving from less developed
countries to more developed countries.
____ 14. Which of the following statements regarding historical North American migration streams is NOT correct?
a. Canada’s second major migration stream d. Canada’s first major migration came from
originated in the British Isles.
France.
b. The first major migration wave to the
e. The last major wave of immigration to the
United States originated in Europe.
United States was from Latin America and
Asia.
c. Canada’s third major migration stream
came from Latin America
____ 15. What is the most likely reason that birth rates are high during the first stage of the demographic transition
model?
a. Religious practice encouraged
d. the success of any infant could not be
reproduction with the pronatal policy of
guaranteed so families had many children
providing public education.
to increase the chance of some surviving
to adulthood.
b. Early societies sacrificed many of their
e. A lack of birth control led to many
offspring for religious reasons.
unwanted pregnancies.
c. the success of an infant was guaranteed
and more children led to greater status in
the tribe.
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The country represented by the population pyramid above is most likely characterized by
a. adequate healthcare for the elderly
d. low death rates for women in childbirth.
b. readily available birth control.
e. low rates of heart disease.
c. a high infant mortality rate.
____ 17. Which of the following regions is currently experiencing the fastest population growth?
a. Tropical Africa
d. Northeast United States
b. Northern Asia
e. Sun Belt
c. Eastern Europe
____ 18. The demographic equation summarizes population change over time in an area by combining:
a. spatial interactions and migrations
d. natural change and net migration
b. distance decay and step migration
e. immigration and emigration rates
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c. push and pull factors for migration
What stage of the demographic transition model do most demographers agree the United States is in?
a. Stage 1
d. Stage 3
b. Stage 4
e. Stage 2
c. Stage 5
The use and spread of English within 19th century India is an example of what type of diffusion?
a. Stimulus
d. Migratory
b. Contagious
e. Relocation
c. Hierarchical
The baby boom
a. was limited to California and the West
d. was fostered by economic prosperity and
relative peace.
b. occurred in the years following World
e. was described by the off-beat author
War I.
Douglas Coupland.
c. was a result of free love during the late
1960s.
Which country below is best represented by a population pyramid with a broad base that slopes quickly to a
narrow top?
a. Italy
d. Austria
b. Russia
e. Uganda
c. France
Ermst Ravenstein’s demongraphic studies focused mainly on:
a. population density
d. migration
b. less developed countries
e. birth rates
c. death rates
Which country is in the region with the highest concentration of people?
a. United States
d. Czech Republic
b. Nigeria
e. South Korea
c. Brazil
Which of the following migrations would be most likely to occur
a. a Chinese Family of three moves from
d. a middle-aged single man moving from
Shanghai to a rural Chinese Village.
London to rural Germany
b. a young, single woman moves from Lima, e. a young single man moves from rural New
Peru, to a rural Peruvian village.
York to Albany, New York, and the to
New York City.
c. a married man and woman with three
small children mover from the United
States to China
Which of the following region is not characterized as one of the four major world population centers?
a. Europe
d. South Asia
b. North America
e. East Asia
c. Southeast Asia
Life expectancy has increased
a. worldwide
d. due to the green revolution
b. only in the most developed countries
e. only in the least-developed countries
c. due to increased food production
According to Thomas Malthus:
a. population growth would exceed food
d. population would increase arithmetically
production.
and food production geometrically.
b. food production would match population e. all of the above
growth.
c. food production would exceed population
growth.
____ 29. Which of the following is true of the Natural Increase Rate (NIR)
a. The NIR rises along with the Crude Death d. A decrease in NIR always leads to a
Rate
decrease in world population levels.
b. The NIR does not take immigration into
e. The NIR is unaffected by an increase in
account.
the Crude Birth Rate.
c. The NIR has steadily increased over the
last 50 years.
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Year Crude Birth
Crude Death Rate
Rate
1975 45
12
1980 46
13
1985 40
12
1990 35
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Based on the demographic transition information above for country Z, which stage of the demographic
transition model best fits Country Z in 1990
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a. Stage 4
d. Stage 1
b. Stage 5
e. Stage 2
c. Stage 3
Which of the statements below correctly describes immigrants living in Europe?
a. Muslim immigrants from North Africa are d. They enjoy the same treatment as received
well integrated into Europe.
by immigrants to the United States.
b. Most find citizenship easy to get in host
e. Immigrants to European cities rarely bring
countries.
their families.
c. They are usually restricted to certain
neighborhoods.
Which of the following has little or no impact on mortality rates in developing countries?
a. Famine relief
d. Pesticides
b. Improved birth control methods
e. New medicines
c. Improved Vaccines
How might a government impact or change population growth to meet goals?
a. sex education
d. one-child policies
b. eugenics
e. all of the above
c. expansive Policies
Which of the following is most clearly a policy that would promote a high birthrate (pronatalist)?
a. forced sterlization programs
d. giving families cash for not having more
than three children.
b. offering parenting classes for new parents. e. awarding tax breaks to families with three
or more children.
c. a one-child per couple policy
Which of the following North American associations is NOT correct?
a. Quebec and northern Maine - French
d. Southern California - Hispanic Americans
Americans and French Canadians
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b. Southern prairie provinces - African
e. Oklahoma and Southwest - Native
Americans
American
c. Southeast-African American
Which of the following is not a major reason given for the possible emergence of stage 5 of the epidemiologic
transition?
a. all of the above are major reasons for the d. Improved travel means that interaction
the emergence of stage 5 of teh
between regions of the world has increase
epidemiologic transition.
allowing disease to spread as well.
b. Infectious disease microbes have evolved e. Many people are turning to alternative
in response to enviromnental pressure put
medicine instead of traditional medicine to
on them by drugs.
treat infectious disease.
c. Poverty in some areas limits the
availability of drugs used to control
infectious disease.
The Sun Belt includes
a. Southern Nevada, southern California, and d. the Rocky Mountain states
South Florida
b. Texas and New Mexico
e. Alabama and Louisiana
c. Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and South
Carolina
Which stage of the demographic transition model is characterized by high birth rates and rapidly declining
death rates?
a. stage 3
d. stage 2
b. stage 5
e. stage 4
c. stage 1
The number of people a region can reasonable support, given its landscape, resources, and trading ability, is
know as
a. carrying capacity
d. physiological density
b. infrastructure
e. overpopulation
c. age-sex pyramid
Which of the following countries would you expect to have the densest population?
a. Columbia
d. Belgium
b. China
e. Peru
c. Mexico
A possible stage five of the Epidemic Transition Model predicts:
a. the return of war and famine.
d. the eradication of infectious disease
b. an increase in crude birthrate following
e. zero population growth
pronatal policies
c. the reemergence of infectious and
parasitic disease.
What is the function of the U.S. Census?
a. to count the population
d. to assign seats on the U.S. senate
b. to review economic data
e. none of the above
c. to improve economic conditions
During what 20-year period has the United States seen the greatest immigration in terms of raw numbers?
a. 1900-1920
d. 1850-1870
b. 1960-1980
e. 1980-2000
c. 1920-1940
What accounts for the spreading of human settlement from a small part of the planet to most of the world?
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a. migration
d. Brain drain
b. innovation
e. assimilation
c. hierarchical diffusion
Which of the following is the best description of demography?
a. the study of how technology is
d. the scientific study of over-population in
hierarchically diffused.
urban centers.
b. the scientific study of population
e. the study of how culture moves from place
characteristics such as age, gender,
to place.
occupation, fertility etc.
c. the detailed study of election results.
Europeans migrated to the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, southern Africa, and southern
South America largely because:
a. Ice trading was an important part of the
d. these locations were uninhabited
economy during Renaissance Europe.
b. local populations asked Europeans to
e. There are more precious metal deposits in
come and rule them.
temperate climates.
c. the temperate climates allowed farming
practices used in Europe to work in those
locations as well.
The number of live births per thousand people per year is called the:
a. total fertility rate
d. infant growth rate
b. exponential growth rate
e. natural increase rate
c. crude birth rate
Which of the following is a push factor?
a. dissatisfaction with current job
d. safer communities elsewhere.
b. higher-paying jobs elsewhere
e. an attractive retirement community
c. a pleasant climate
The most important tool for geographers is the census. In the United States, every 10 years, the U.S. Bureau
of Census conducts a survey of all U.S. households. What is one major problem with the U.S. Census?
a. People in the inner city are more likely not d. The survey is not conducted often enough,
to complete the census which gives a
in countries like Great Britain, the census
lower census count and representation for
is conducted every year.
ethnic minorities.
b. Data from the census often takes too long e. The survey doesn’t ask enough questions.
to analyze and a city’s or country’s
demographics can change in that time.
c. Census takers are usually racially biased.
The Chinese government’s population policies since 1979 have resulted in:
a. a disproportionately large number of
d. tighter restrictions for family sizes of
young Chinese women.
ethnic minorities than for the Han
Chinese.
b. an overall reduction in the country’s
e. a rapidly aging population.
population.
c. a strict one-child policy for all families.
Refugees are produced through
a. chain migration
d. economic migration
b. cultural migration
e. internal migration
c. forced migration
A rectangle-shaped population pyramid indicates a country that is:
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a. experiencing high immigration rates
d. growing slowly or not at all
b. highly dependent on the economically
e. composed mainly of the older age classes
productive generations
c. growing rapidly
Which of the following countries is most likely to be showing the lowest natural increase rate?
a. Chile
d. China
b. Liechtenstein
e. Afghanistan
c. United States
Thomas Malthus predicted that
a. the Green Revolution would provided
d. population would outpace food production
agricultural technology to support
increasing populations.
b. the environment would allow less food to e. the distribution of resources would be a
be grown in the future
continuing problem
c. technology will offset population growth
In what stage of the demographic transition model are most LDCs?
a. First
d. Second
b. Third
e. Fourth
c. Fifth
Since the 1970s changes in the social roles, lifestyles, and employment patterns of women in Europe, Canada,
and the United States have affected the overall population through which of the following?
a. Increased total fertility rates
d. Decreased death rates
b. Increased infant mortality rates
e. Increased death rates
c. Decreased total fertility rates
Which of the following areas of the world generally have net out-migration?
a. Latin America and Africa
d. Asia and North America
b. Europe and Oceania
e. Europe and Asia
c. North American and Latin America
World population tends to be concentrated:
a. in the tropical lowlands along lake beds. d. in the desert.
b. at higher elevations.
e. in continental interiors.
c. on continental margins.
______________ occurs when a population is adding a fixed percentage of people to a growing population
each year.
a. doubling
d. exponential growth
b. overpopulation
e. arithmetic growth
c. demographic accounting
A person is trying to move from Miami to San Diego but decides to stop and stay in Dallas because of a good
job. This is an example of what?
a. Distance decay
d. Environmental pull factor
b. Intervening obstacle
e. Intervening opportunity
c. Voluntary migration
Which of the following statements is a law of migration according to E.G. Ravenstein?
a. most migrants consists of families
d. every migration flow creates a return or
counter migration.
b. most international migrants are senior
e. most migration is urban to rural
citizens
c. most migrants move a great distance
____ 62. Many recent college graduates and young professionals move to large, vibrant cities - such as New York,
Chicago, and Los Angeles - with nightlife, cultural amenities, and job opportunities. These attractions are
examples of
a. mobility opportunities.
d. push factors
b. pull factors.
e. suburban amenities.
c. economic factors.
____ 63. Thomas Malthus argued that while food supply increased arithmetically, population increased
______________ , which would eventually cause over-population issues.
a. geometrically
d. demographically
b. hierarchically
e. agricultrually
c. physiologically
____ 64. Which is most likely true of stage 4 of the demographic transition model in England?
a. The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is
d. The Crude Death Rate is much lower than
increasing.
the Crude Birth Rate
b. the Crude Birth Rate is much lower than e. the Natural Increase Rate (NIR) continues
the Crude Death Rate.
to go up.
c. the total fertility rate is less than 2.1
____ 65. Carrying capacity is a function of
a. natural resources
d. A, B, and D
b. resource allocation
e. limiting factors
c. technology
____ 66. What is the seasonal migration of livestock to pasture lands where food is more plentiful called?
a. Natality
d. Transhumance
b. Sustainability
e. Interval migration
c. Step migration
____ 67. Which of the following examples best demonstrates how scale of inquiry could affect the study of migration?
a. Migration happens differently at different d. Most migration maps don’t represent the
times.
demographics of the groups.
b. Migration maps don’t accurately show the e. Migration patterns could be different in
destination of immigrants.
different countries.
c. A country with little net migration might
show great internal migration from rural
areas to urban areas.
____ 68. When baby boomers have reached retirement age, what will the population pyramid for the United States look
like?
a. Pear-shaped, wide at the bottom, but
d. An hourglass, wide at both top and bottom
narrow at the top.
b. Relatively rectangular, with a slight bulge e. None of these
near the top.
c. Carrot-shaped, a narrow bottom and wide
top.
____ 69. Which one of the following statements below best describes an application of the “S-curve?”
a. graph of growing human population since d. case study explaining how countries gain
their first appearence on earth
stability and a sense of “openness” over
time.
b. graph of Bantu migration
e. model showing decrease in population
growth for several countries after they
industrialize
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c. chart showing how cities associate with
one another based on their population
sizes
Which is a characteristic of immigrants according to Ravenstein?
a. They are older, with families.
d. They move from urban areas.
b. They move from rural to urban areas.
e. all of the above
c. The move to rural areas.
In the 1930s, thousands of “Okies” fled the Dust Bowl of the southern Great Plains and moved to the fertile
agricultural regions of California to start a new life. This is an example of:
a. forced migration
d. external migration
b. eco-migration
e. political migration
c. economic migration
What is the main difference between population clusters in Asia and Europe?
a. In Asia, most people make their living in d. In Europe, most people make their living
the secondary sector of the economy.
in the primary sector of the economy.
b. In Asia, the tertiary sector of the economy e. In Europe, most people live in urban
is stagnant.
areas.
c. In Asia, most people live in urban areas.
Millions of _____________ came to the United States during the early years of the 20th century.
a. refugees
d. colonists
b. suburbanites
e. emigrants
c. immigrants
Which one of the following demographic factors characterizes stages 4 and 5 of the demographic transition
model?
a. high birth rates
d. high sex ratios
b. high mortality rates
e. zero population growth
c. overpopulation
Which of the following was predicted by Thomas Malthus in the late 18th century?
a. Population in Europe would be checked
d. Population growth in the future would be
by increased colonization and
checked by industrial development.
immigration.
b. Population Growth in the future would be e. Population growth in the future would be
checked by disease, famine, and wars.
supported by increasing food supplies.
c. Population growth in the future would
have no checks to slow it down.
Karl Marx would most likely have agreed with which of the following statements?
a. Overpopulation is a direct result of not
d. The unequal distribution of resources
having enough subsistence farmers in an
creates surplus population.
economy
b. surplus population is impossible
e. death rates must exceed birthrates
c. Overpopulation results from exponential
population growth and arithmetic growth
of food supply
Throughout human history, world population has
a. grown most rapidly in the developed
d. been confined to countries in the southern
world
hemisphere
b. experienced numerous periods of dramatic e. grown at a steady rate
decline
c. grown most rapidly over the last 200 years
____ 78. What reason best explains why the rate of natural increase is greater in less developed countries than in more
developed countries?
a. In less developed countries, people have d. In less developed countries, people have
more children due to having an
fewer children due to having a tertiary
agricultural society.
society.
b. In less developed countries, people have e. In more developed countries, people have
fewer children due to having an industrial
less children because children are
society.
economic assets.
c. In more developed countries, people have
more children due to having an
agricultural society.
____ 79. The process whereby an immigrant learns the values, language, and customs of their new country is called:
a. amalgamation
d. diffusion
b. agglomeration
e. adaptation
c. acculturation
____ 80. Suburbanization is most evident in
a. regionally planned Canadian cities like
d. older American cities like Boston
Toronto
b. newer American cities like Las Vegas
e. large European cities like Madrid
c. large South American cities like Sao Paolo
____ 81. The three largest population clusters in the world are in:
a. Africa, South Asia, East Asia
d. Africa, Australia, North America
b. Africa, East Asia, Europe
e. East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia.
c. East Asia, South Asia, South America
____ 82. Which of the following is true of the world’s ”over-population” problem?
a. over-population will lead to the extinction d. Over-population is a problem in every
of the human race.
country in the world.
b. In the next couple of years, the earth will e. over population is a threat in some areas
not be able to produce enough food to feed
of the world, but not others.
its growing population.
c. geographers typically don’t study overpopulation problems.
____ 83. The first stage of the demographic transition exhibits:
a. high birth rates but fluctuating death rates. d. high birth rates with declining death rates.
b. declining birth rates with continuing high e. low birth rates with continuing high death
death rates.
rates.
c. high birth rates with low and stable death
rates.
____ 84. The increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through economic, political, and cultual
interaction is called:
a. globalization
d. hierarchical diffusion
b. development
e. culture
c. core-periphery model
____ 85. Which of the following is not true of the affect of European migration on world culture?
a. Indo-European languages are now spoken d. Europeans took natural resources back to
by half of the world’s population.
Europe instead of promoting industry in
the colonies.
b. Christianity became the most popular
religion in the world.
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e. European political and economic systems
diffused to regions that were previously
sparsely populated.
c. European colonists respected the rights
and cultures of existing populations,
nurturing the advancement of all people.
Which of the following branches of Geography examines the affect of disease on human populations?
a. epidemiology
d. physiology
b. mortality
e. topography
c. fertility
The five toos - too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, and too hilly - refer to which term?
a. transmigration
d. ecumene
b. distance decay
e. cohort
c. intervening opportunity
Within the United States, overall life expectancy
a. is limited by an unusually high infant
d. both (B) and (C)
mortalitiy rate
b. varies between various cohorts within the e. varies between regions, with people in the
larger population
southwest living longer on average
c. all of the above
Which of the following countries is at stage two of the demographic transition model?
a. Denmark
d. San Marino
b. Russia
e. Finland
c. Nigeria
Which of the following demographic statistics best measures the level of reproduction occuring in a
population?
a. CDR
d. TFR
b. natal rate
e. CBR
c. composite birth statistics
Literacy is a demographic indicator of:
a. religion
d. type of government.
b. social condition.
e. none of the above
c. taboos
Which of the following best describes India’s population?
a. very large and concentrated in a few big
d. reliant on food from outside sources in
cities.
order to feed its exploding popualation
b. small, but growing rapidly.
e. Large and mostly rural.
c. Small and mostly urban.
The movement of persons from the rust belt to the sun belt is an example of which type of migration?
a. Intercoastal
d. International
b. Interregional
e. Interurban
c. Intercontinental
The theory that most migration occurs over a short distance and in steps is attributed to:
a. Harris and Ullman
d. von Thunen
b. Burgess
e. Ravenstein
c. Rostow
Which of the following is the best example of a economic push factor?
a. Revolution erupts in Nicaragua, causing
people to flee for their lives.
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d. A factory is built in San Juan Costa Rica,
and people move away because of the
pollution.
e. A large office is built in Buenos Aires
bringing professionals to Argentina
b. An extended drought hits the midwest
causing farmers to look for work in the
cities.
c. Slaves are moved from Africa to Haiti to
work on sugar plantations for French
colonists.
Which of the following regions is considered to be in the five primary areas of population density in the
world?
a. Far-northern Europe: Finland, Norway,
d. Sub-saharan Africa
and Sweden
b. Central Asia: western China and Mongolia e. Eastern South America: Argentina and
Uruguay
c. South Asia: India, Pakistan, and
Bangladesh
Country Populationville has a crude birth rate of 25 and a crude death rate of 13 while the country of
Demograville has a crude birth rate of 40 and a crude death rate of 25. Which country will experience the
fastest natural increase rate?
a. Each will have a negative natural increase d. Each will have a positive natural increase
rate.
rate.
b. Populationville
e. Demograville
c. Neither
The best example of intraregional migration would occur in which of the following examples?
a. A single man moving from Mexico to
d. A Canadian businessman moving to
Argentina in search of job opportunities.
Ecuador to take advantage of the booming
economy.
b. Chinese workers coming to Panama to
e. A family of four moving from Florida to
work on the canal
North Dakota because of a preference for
snow in the winter.
c. a single mother moving from Chicago to
Detroit to be closer to her family.
Which continent has the highest total fertility rates?
a. Australia
d. South America
b. Africa
e. Asia
c. Europe
Which of the following is an accurate statement about the population of the world?
a. Most people live in the Western
d. Major population centers are found in the
hemisphere.
center of continents to avoid the
unpredictable weather events near the
oceans.
b. Most of the world’s population is spread e. Major population centers are found on
out evenly between the tropics of
coasts and in river valleys.
Capricorn and Cancer
c. Few people live in temperate climates.
Most of the world’s people live in
a. the developed
d. the southern hemisphere
b. the world’s poorest countries
e. China
c. urban areas in the developed world
____ 102. Which one of the following statements is most characteristic of a refugee?
a. They take all of their physical possessions d. They usually move with official
with them.
documentation.
b. Their first steps are often made on foot, by e. Their chief motivation is to get new jobs.
wagon, or bicycle.
c. They move at a leisurely pace.
____ 103. Which of the following counties instituted a one-child policy?
a. Malawi
d. India
b. Singapore
e. Italy
c. China
____ 104. The demographic transition model suggests that:
a. birth rates will fall with development.
d. life expectancy will decrease with
development.
b. birth rates will increase with development. e. all of the above
c. death rates will increase with
development.
____ 105. Which form of migration below are farm workers from another country most likely to be practicing during the
year?
a. political migration
d. International travel
b. Chain migration
e. Cluster migration
c. Circular migration
____ 106. Which of the following countries would have the highest birth rate?
a. China
d. Nigeria
b. Canada
e. Indonesia
c. France
____ 107. By the early 21st century, crude birth rates were highest in:
a. Europe, North America, and Latin
d. North America, Africa, and Asia
America
b. Asia, Europe and Africa
e. Latin America, North America, and Asia
c. Asia, Latin America, and Africa
____ 108. India and China are the world’s two most populous countries. While China has instituted a strict population
policy, India
a. does not endorse birth control because of a d. encourages lower fertility through
catholic majority.
education and access to family planning
b. has a similar policy as China
e. for cultural reasons, encourages women to
continue to reproduce.
c. becasue of their agricultural system,
encourages reproduction.
____ 109. The demographic accounting equation does NOT take into account _________________ when calculating a
country’s population.
a. natural increase over time
d. the death rates
b. emigration
e. instances when natural increase is
negative
c. immigration
____ 110. According to Demographic Transition Theory at which stages in a country’s development is population most
likely to increase?
a. Stages 2 and 4
d. Stages 2 and 3
b. Stages 3 and 4
e. Stages 1 and 2
c. Stages 1 and 4
____ 111. Which of the following countries would be expected to have the lowest infant mortality rate?
a. Rwanda
d. Indonesia
b. Kazakhstan
e. Singapore
c. the United States
____ 112.
According to the population pyramid above, which one of the following statements is correct?
a. Gender numbers are nearly identical until d. The economically active and productive
the older age cohort is reached.
population is too small to support the
youth and old-age population.
b. The death rate exceeds the birth rate
e. The population is experiencing a rapid
growth rate.
c. The population is experiencing a high
mortality rate.
____ 113. Population policy usually involves limitations on
a. All of the above
d. fertility levels
b. both (A) and (B) only
e. immigration levels
c. education levels
____ 114. Shital embarked on her move to California from New York. On her way she stopped in Des Moines, IA to
visit some old friends. She fell in love with Iowa and stayed there. In this migration, Iowa represents a(n)
a. intervening obstacle
d. intervening opportunity
b. push factor
e. pandemic
c. remittance
____ 115. Which of the following regions is the least densly populated?
a. Europe
d. Northeast United States
b. East Asia
e. South America
c. South Asia
____ 116. During the last half of the 20th century, people have moved to the south because of warmer climates. Warmer
climates are a:
a. Environmental push factor
d. Cultural pull factor
b. none of the above
e. Cultural push factor
c. Environmental pull factor
____ 117. Which of the following is mostly the result of chain migration?
a. Colonization of the American frontier
d. The formation of Israel
b. French colonial rule
e. San Francisco’s Chinatown
c. The African slave trade
____ 118. Why does the rate of natural increase (RNI) not accurately demonstrate population change for subglobal
regions?
a. RNI data do not include immigration and d. Epidemics can drastically affect RNI data
emmigration
b. Higher fertility rates lead to a higher
e. RNI data are not specific enough to focus
mortality rate in less developed countries
on women and children
(LDCs)
c. The RNI does not change in a region
without a cultural decision to change the
birthrate
____ 119. Population density is best represented by:
a. dot maps
d. GIS
b. a population pyramid
e. a pie chart
c. isoline topographic maps
____ 120. You are planning to move from your hometown to Pittsburgh. Along the way, you stop in Columbus, Ohio to
visit a relative and decide to stay and make Columbus your new home. This decision is an example of:
a. transhumance.
d. involuntary migration.
b. intervening opportunity.
e. distance decay.
c. environmental push factors.
____ 121. Which of the following is least likely to have a high population density?
a. maritime provinces of Canada
d. coastal areas of Brazil
b. beaches in Costa Rica
e. plains of Montana
c. suburbs of New York
____ 122. Which of the following trends matches the urban migration pattern of the 1880s noted by Ernst Ravenstein?
a. Countercurrents of migration tend to be
d. The majority of migrants move long
larger than original streams.
distances.
b. Migrants who move long distances tend to e. Rural dwellers tend to be less migratory
move to large cities.
than urban dwellers
c. Most migrants are young children
following their young parents.
____ 123. The key factor Thomas Malthus failed to recognize in his theory was:
a. population is limited by their means of
d. all populations have the potential to
subsistence.
increase more than the actual rate of
increase.
b. populations will always increase if the
e. technology’s ability to raise the earth’s
means of subsistence increase.
carrying capacity.
c. wars and famine inhibit population’s
reproductive capacity.
____ 124. The idea that once a culture locates in another area, the original customs and traditions eventually die our or
are less strong, is best characterized by which term?
____ 125.
____ 126.
____ 127.
____ 128.
____ 129.
a. transhumance
d. gravity model
b. acculturation
e. Place utility
c. distance decay
The typical family in a more developed country (MDC):
a. has remained relatively constant in size
d. contains more people than in the past
over the last 500 years.
because parents have economic incentive
to have more children.
b. contains less people than in the past
e. contains less people than in the past
because parents are having fewer children.
because nuclear war and disease have
decimated populations.
c. contains more people in the past as
medical advances mean more babies
survive.
The spread of coffee shops around the U.S. in the 1990s is an example of
a. stimulus diffusion
d. hierarchical diffusion
b. periodic movement
e. relocation diffusion
c. contagious diffusion
Which of the following is a characteristic of infant mortality in the United States?
a. It is the highest in the world.
d. It is higher than expected for a developed
country.
b. It is the lowest in the world.
e. none of the above
c. It is increasing.
Which of the following is true of the United States in terms of arithmetic, physiological, and agricultural
density?
a. The United States has a relatively low
d. The United States has a very high
arithmetic density, a low physiological
arithmetic density, a high physiological
density, and a low agricultural density.
density, and a low agricultural density.
b. The United States has a relatively low
e. The United States has a relatively low
arithmetic density, a low physiological
arithmetic density, a high physiological
density, and a high agricultural density.
density, and a low agricultural density.
c. The United States has a relatively low
arithmetic density, a high physiological
density, and a high agricultural density.
Which of the following countries is more likely to be in the 2nd Stage of the demographic transition model?
a. Mexico
d. The United States
b. Canada
e. Cape Verde Islands
c. Chile