APHUG Unit II Review

If the CBR is 24 and the CDR is 12, what is the NIR?

1.2

What is the world fertility rate?

2.4

Which of the following agricultural densities would produce the largest amount of food?

5 farmers per kilometer

What are the diseases in stage 4?

Cancer and heart disease

The ability of a resource base to sustain a population is known as its

Carrying capacity

What is the biggest country by population?

China

Which of the following describes the most likely cause of death for a citizen of a country in stages 4 and 5 of the demographic transition model?

Degenerative diseases due to old age and lifestyle

What country was the first to reach stage 2? Why?

England in the 1800s because it was where the industrial revolution occurred

Physiological population density is viewed as a superior measure of population density for which of the following reasons?

It is more reflective of population pressure on arable land.

In which of the following pairs do both countries exhibit zero or negative population growth rates?

Japan and Germany

What are the results of the OCP?

Lesson population growth and gender imbalence

Which of the following characteristics applies to more-developed countries?

Long life expectancies

A country at the end of the demographic transition usually has which of the following?

Low birth and death rates

Which of the following best explains why, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Thomas Malthus proposed his population theory?

Malthus theorized that, if left unchecked by regular cycles of famine and misery, population would increase beyond the ability to feed itself.

What two measures are used to create a population pyramid?

Sex and Age

Where is the population density is high and the level of economic development is low?

South Asia

Which of the following regions had the smallest percentage of people living in urban areas at the end of the twentieth century?

South Asia

Which stage of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) features the widest base on a population pyramid?

Stage 2

Which stage of the demographic transition model features a rapidly dropping CBR and a moderately dropping CDR?

Stage 3

Sri Lanka and Australia have about the same population. What data would help you determine which country has a higher physiological population density?

The amount of arable land in each country

In the early part of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, Thomas Malthus developed a theory that population increases exponentially, while food production can increase only arithmetically. Which of the following statements best explains how the Industrial Revolution reduced the threats forecast by Malthus?

The resulting rural-to-urban migration for jobs in factories led to a decline in birth rates and lowered population growth rates below what Malthus predicted.

Why will Kenya continue to grow even if their TFR reaches 2.0?

Their average age is very young.

Which of the following countries is best described as being at Stage 3 of the demographic transition model?

Bolivia: birth rate = 24 , death rate = 7

What does the population pyramid show?

Gender and age

Developing countries have reached stage two of the demographic transition model due to the

Medical revolution

Which of the following best describes a country with a rate of natural increase of 0.4 ?

Slow population growth

If CBR is 30 and CDR is 10, what is NIR?

2%

How do you find NIR?

CBR-CDR and then move the decimal one space to the left

Which of the following countries will double in the shortest amount of time?

Nigeria

What country has a CBR around 40?

Nigeria (in Sub-Saharan Africa)

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, which of the following countries had the lowest fertility rate?

South Africa

What country has a CDR of 15?

Any countries in stage 2

How do developed countries get to stage 2?

Industrial revolution

Which of the following explains an unintended consequence of China's antinatalist one-child policy?

A projected shortage of working-age people to care for the rising elderly population, resulting in an increase in the cost of living for older people.

What is ecumeme?

Areas of permentant human settlement

Assuming a world population of 5,700,000,000 and an annual growth rate of 1.6 percent, how many people will be added to the world's population in the next year?

91,200,000

Why is Nigeria's fertility rate 7?

Because they have less access to birth control and infant mortality rate is low

A country in the first stage of the demographic transition demonstrates which of the following?

High birth rates, high death rates, and low rates of population growth

Which region is the best example of stage three of the Demographic Transition Model?

Latin America

The number of people per unit of arable land is called

Physiological density

Which comment would be the most likely to come out of the mouth of Ester Boserup?

This soil is exhausted, but we will find a way to grow crops.

The sex ratio represented in the age-sex graph above for Country X is most likely the result of

a large guest-worker population

One would expect to find a population with a relatively young age structure in

less developed countries

The dependency ratio is most useful for indicating the

relationship between the potential labor force and the remainder of a country's population

The measure of the average number of children who are born to women of childbearing age in the population is called the

total fertility rate

Which of the following regions is NOT in stage four of the demographic transition model? A. South Asia B. East Asia C. Oceania D. North America

A

Which of the following country demographics would be used to explain the need for the pronatalist policies shown?

A country with a birth rate of 11 a death rate of 13 and a rate of natural increase of -0.2 legislates tax credits for working parents

The map shows the number of people per unit of land. Which of the following types of data are shown in the map?

Arithmetic density

Which of the following describes a concern for a country with an aging population?

As the proportion of older people in the country increases, fewer young workers are available to contribute tax revenues to support programs that provide services to the older population.

Which of the following countries has the lowest agricultural density?

Canada

What are four examples of countries with low agricultural density?

Canada, U.S., Australia, and U.K.

What country will be the most populous country when we are in senior year?

India

What region has negative population growth?

Japan and Eastern Europe

Which quadrent do most people live in?

Northeast

What is people divided by arable land?

Physiological density

Based on the population pyramid above, which of the following will pose the greatest demographic challenge to China beginning in 2029?

Providing for the needs of its aging population

What did Thomas Malthus predict?

We will run out of food

The low birth and death rates for a country in stage 4 of the demographic transition model are best explained by

the level of urbanization and technological advancement of a more developed country

Even though total fertility rates have been declining in some less-developed countries, the total population has continued to grow. This is primarily because a high percentage of the population is

under the age of 15