Chapter 2 population review sheet

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

Know the Thomas Malthus Chart

- Thomas Malthus • world's population is growing faster than the development of food supply • food supply was growing arithmetically and population was growing geometrically - Neo-Malthusians • transfer of medical technology leads to a rapid increase in population in poor countries • world population growth is outstripping a wide variety of resources • wars and civil violence will increase because of scarcities of resources - Critics of Malthus •large population will stimulate economic growth •poverty, hunger and other social welfare problem areas is the result of unjust social and economic institutions

The diffusion of medical practices, especially to LDCs in the 19th century, has been called____

Medical Revelation

What does NIR mean? What is the definition?

Natural Increase rate- is the percentage by which a population grows in a year

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

9. The average number of births women bear in their lifetimes is ____

Total Fertility Rate

1. What is the best rate of population geographers use to study fertility? (CDR, CBR, or NIR)

crude birth rate

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.)

- stage 1 LOW GROWTH -death and birth are high - stage 2 HIGH GROWTH -sudden burst of population -industrial revolution -death rates drop -birth rates increase -NIR very high - stage 3 MODERATE GROWTH -crude birth rates drop -crude death rates drop -population continues to grow -NIR is more moderate - stage 4 LOW GROWTH -crude birth rates decline to equal crude death rates -NIR approaches 0 -no population growth

15. What part of the world has the LOWEST life expectancy

Africa

land suited for agriculture is ___

Arable land

5. What is the main reason for declining natural increase rates in LDCs today

CBR is decreasing

what is the world's most populated country

China

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

What has been the most lethal epidemic in most recent years

HIV/AIDS

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

The annual number of deaths under 1 year of age, compared to the total live births is

Infant Mortality Rate

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)

16. Name the 4 regions human beings avoid.

Wet lands, dry lands, cold lands and high lands