AP Human Geography Review Sheet Ch. 2
6. Be able to name all of the population clusters in the world today.
South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, Eastern Northern America, West Africa
17. In which stage of the DTM can the highest NIRs be found?
Stage 2
7. What was the final conclusion of Thomas Malthus's theory when it comes to population increase and food production?
The world's rate of population increase was higher than the development of food supplies
20. What is the purpose of a population pyramid?
To compare the population of each sex and age group of a certain country
8. Land suited for agriculture is
arable land
15. What part of the world has the LOWEST life expectancy?
Africa
5. What is the main reason for declining natural increase rates in LDCs today?
CBR is decreasing
4. What is the world's most populated country?
China
1. What is the best rate of population geographers use to study fertility? (CDR, CBR, or NIR)
Crude Birth Rate
10. What does CBR mean? What is the definition?
Crude Birth Rate, the number of live births for every 1,000 people
19. What are two strategies that have been used in reducing birthrates?
Distribution of contraceptives and improved economic development which create jobs
2. What cluster of population regions has the world's largest concentration of people?
East Asia
11. What has been the most lethal epidemic in most recent years?
HIV/AIDS
14. The annual number of deaths under 1 year of age, compared to the total live births is?
IMR, Infant mortality rate
3. Thomas Malthus said food resources would not keep up with the rate of population increase. In the past half-century, what has actually happened to the rate of food production?
Increased due to the new technology, and the actual food production has been much higher Malthus predicted
18. MDCs that moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the DTM was because of a 200 year transition period. What was so important during that 200 year period?
Invention of new technology (Industrial Revolutions)
13. The diffusion of medical practices, especially to LDCs in the 19th century, has been called
Medical Revelation
12. What does NIR mean? What is the definition?
Natural Increase Rate, is the percentage by which a population grows in a year
21. Know the Thomas Malthus Chart
Notes
22. Be able to fill in the DTM chart with characteristics describing each stage in the demographic transition model (CBR, CDR, NIR, etc.). Characterize the amount of growth of each stage (high, low, stable, etc.)
Notes
16. Name the 4 regions human beings avoid
Wet lands, dry lands, cold lands and high lands
9. The average number of births women bear in their lifetimes is
total fertility rate (TFR)
