Actual APHG Unit 2 Multiple Choice Assessment
A low arithmetic density means
An area has few people per square mile
Which area's natural resources are LEAST likely to be able to support a high population density?
Desert
A population settling near a river would be particularly vulnerable to...
Floods
Which of the following is likely to happen in the next 50 years according to the graph?
Italy will have more retirees than schoolchildren
Stage 5 countries are characterized by...
Negative rates of natural increase
Which of the following can be learned from a population pyramid?
The ratio of 50-year old men to 50-year old women
Which of the following are examples of how populations have adapted to living with natural disasters?
-Gulf coast contractors install hurricane shutters on newly built homes -Houses in Bangladesh are built on stilts. -California has seismic building codes
A country's development is concerned about its rapidly expanding population. Which of the following situations would be the most effective?
-Handing out free contraception -Fining families with more than one child -Offering tax breaks to families who choose to have only one child
A country has a lengthening life expectancy and a declining birth rate. Which of the following solutions might it need to implement in the future to solve its demographic problems?
-Raising the retirement age -Paid maternity leave
A country has a high dependency ratio. Which of the following scenarios could be true?
-The country's birth rates have been increasing dramatically over the past 20 years -The government implemented pro-natalist policies about 10 years ago
Which of the following countries is most likely able to export agricultural products?
A country with a low physiological density and low arithmetic density
A country has an increasing birth rate and a long life expectancy. What shape would its population pyramid resemble?
A rectangle
The country that is most likely where on the demographic transition model?
At the beginning of stage 2
Which of the following describes the population of the world's countries before the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries?
Birth rates were high and death rates were high
Which of the following countries has been most successful in controlling population growth?
China
Examine the map above. Which of the following letters marks a place where a large population is MOST likely to live?
E
Which of the following is NOT a region of high population density?
East Africa
How has western Europe responded to its declining birth rate?
Eliminating taxes on couples with multiple children
Which of the following people argued that inequity and not population growth caused food scarcity?
Engels
The demographic transition model was originally based on countries from what continent?
Europe
According to the epidemiological model, people in a stage 4 country would most likely die of what?
Heart attack
A stage 1 country is one that has a
High birth rate and high death rate
Which of the following countries is facing a negative rate of natural increase?
Japan
Which of the following countries was last to move from stage 1 to stage 2 of the demographic transition model?
Lesotho
An anti-natalist policy
Lowers the crude birth rate
Modern medical science contributed to all of the following significant demographic effects EXCEPT:
Modern medicine has decreased fertility rates in industrialized societies
How does the distribution of Europeans differ from the distribution of Asians?
Most Europeans live in urban areas, Asians tend to live in rural areas
Life expectancy is usually shortest in countries at which stage of development?
Stage 1 countries
The rate of natural increase is determined by...
Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate
Which of the following countries is likely to have the highest rate of natural increase in the next 20 years?
Tanzania
Which of the following usually occurs after a natural disaster?
The death rate falls
What has been the most significant cause of the decline in death rate in less developed countries?
The discovery and dissemination of the smallpox vaccine
Agricultural Density
The number of farmers per unit area of farmland(Km).
Physiological Density measures...
The number of people per unit area of arable land
