AP Human Geography Chapter 2 Test: Population and Health

Replacement level, the number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration, requires a total fertility of _________

b) 2.1

Highest rates of infant mortality are found in the region.

b) Central Africa

Not all countries with aging population resort to immigration to offset economic problems. An example is:

b) Japan

The lowest infant mortality rate among countries with large populations is in:

b) Japan

About ________% of the world's population is concentrated in East Asia.

c) 25

It has been estimated that 98% of Egypt's population occupies only ________% of the country's total area

c) 3

Over large parts of Bangladesh the rural population density is between _______ people per square mile.

c) 3000 and 5000

In 1930 and 2000, the Earth's population increased by

c) 4 billion

At the present rate of births and deaths in the world, we are adding about _______ million inhabitants every year.

c) 80

Sub-Saharan Africa's high mortality rate is strongly influenced by:

c) AIDS

________ have annual natural rates of population increase above 3.0%

c) Mali and Uganda

The major focus of population in Australia is:

c) along its eastern coast

Associated with the East Asian population cluster are ribbon-like extensions of dense population penetrating the interior. These extensions represent:

c) basins and lowlands of China's major rivers

The growth rate of population of South Asia is _____ the world average of 1.4 percent

c) greater than

In comparison to Asia, the percentage of the population living in urban places in Germany and the United Kingdom is:

c) greater than Asia

Births and ________ add to the population growth of a particular country.

c) immigration

A population pyramid with a wide base and narrow top is indicative of:

c) less developed countries

Demographers and population geographers who study global growth today believe that the concept of doubling time is:

c) less important than in the past

Terrain and environment appear to have a different association with the population cluster of Europe that extends from the British Isles into Russia than in Asia. This suggests that in Europe, terrain and environment play a:

c) lesser role than in Asia

Population growth rates are _______ in southern India, where women have higher literacy rates

c) lower

Switzerland's physiological density is _____ as/than its arithmetic density.

c) much greater

The world's three largest population concentrations are all found on the same landmass, which is:

d) Eurasia

Which region of the world is largely below replacement level?

d) Europe

Most of the countries with low population growth rates are also among the wealthiest, An exception to this would be:

d) Russia

Enormous strides have been made to battle the AIDS crisis, including:

d) all the these choices is correct

Brazil's population is concentrated:

d) along the Atlantic Coast

Food production, contrary to the predictions of Malthus, has grown exponentially because of a number of factors. Which one of the following is not one of these factors?

d) an increase in the number of farmers in Britain

The population of a country, city or other region is a function of three variables. Which is not one of the variables?

d) ethnic backround

The arithmetic density of population for a country is determined by dividing the total _________

d) population by the total area

In which region of the United States is infant mortality rate the highest?

d) the South

In Europe the marked decline of the birth rate was the result of:

d) the effects of Industrialization, urbanization, and general modernization

The majority of Egypt's 70 million inhabitants are distributed evenly around the country.

FALSE

During the demographic transition, the drop in birth and death rate is equal.

FALSE

In all demographic cases, the higher the birth rate, the shorter the doubling time.

FALSE

More than half of the world's entire population is concentrated in East Asia.

FALSE

A population with both a high fertility and a high mortality rate has a broad-based population pyramid.

TRUE

Census records are not accurate for all countries

TRUE

In almost all cases, the TFR's of African countries are higher than those of European countries.

TRUE

Low life expectancy in Africa can be partly attributed to the ravages of AIDS.

TRUE

Some countries have declining populations, which means negative population growth rates.

TRUE

Women tend to outlive men and in Russia their life expectancy may be 12 years longer than male population.

TRUE

Low population growth resulting from high CBR and very high CDR is characteristic of stage ________ of the demographic transition

a) I

In 1789, a British economist named Thomas Malthus published an essay in which he claimed that while population increased at what he called a geometric rate, the means of subsistence grew only at:

a) an arithmetic (linear) rate

The mortality rate in the United States:

a) is higher than in Mexico

Various organizations protested the 2000 and 2010 United States census because:

a) of the possibility of under-counting disadvantaged populations

The Europeans population axis is directly related to the:

a) orientation of Europe's coalfields

In India the greatest concentration of population is found on the:

a) plain of the Ganges River

Two physical geographic barriers create the boundaries of the South Asia population cluster are:

a) the Himalaya Mountains to the north and the mountains west of the Indus River Valley in Pakistan

In the Western Hemisphere, which of the following countries has a Total Fertility Rate below replacement level?

a) the United States

A vectored infectious disease is

a) transmitted by an intermediary, such as a mosquito

Between 1820 and 1930, world population ________

b) doubled

Population policies which favor the promotion of birth control among certain groups in the population (ethnic, religious, or socio-economic groups) are referred to as:

b) eugenics

Almost everywhere on Earth, Total Fertility Rates (TFRs) are:

b) falling

The number of African countries below replacement level

b) few

In the 1970's, the government of India used this method to reduce the population growth rates in certain areas of the country.

b) forced sterilization of males

In the 21st Century, world population doubling time is:

b) increasing (ie taking longer to double)

The problem with using arithmetic population density to investigate the population pattern of a country is that such a density figure does not take into consideration:

b) internal clustering of people within the country

The statistics that report the number of deaths per thousand people in a given year is called:

b) the crude death or mortality rate

After the three Eurasian population clusters, the next-ranking cluster comprises the east-central United States and southeastern Canada. This cluster is not nearly as large as the smallest of the Eurasian clusters, It is, in fact only _________ the size

c) one-quarter

The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land is the:

c) physiological density

Demographically, Great Britain experienced a _______ in the period from the late 1800's through WWII

c) population explosion

Countries with aging populations attempt to stimulate economic growth to lessen the effect of rising medical and retirement costs by:

c) promoting immigration

A developed country that has reached a stage where the population is most stable will develop a population pyramid that is:

c) rectangular shaped

The major focus of North America's population is:

c) the Megalopolis region

Asian population extensions reflect fertile river valleys, while the European extension reflects:

c) the orientation of Europe's coal fields