Geography: Migration
Country X has a rate of natural increase of 2.5%. If the RNI is expected to remain the same, the population of Country X would be expected to double in ____________ years.
28
What is the main difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person (IDP)?
A refugee has been forced to migrate to another country to avoid certain disasters, while an IDP has been forced to migrate to another part of the same country.
According to the "epidemiologic transition model", the United States is currently in which of the following epidemiological stages?
Age of degenerative and man-made diseases.
Why would a government make policies to restrict immigration?
All of the above
Which conclusion BEST illustrates the impact of both human and physical factors on population distributions?
As humans produce more CO2, climates change, ice-caps melt, ocean temperatures increase, and sea levels rise. Knowing this, the government of Bangladesh encourages citizens to migrate northward.
According to the epidemiological transition model, which country would be most susceptible to cholera disease?
Chad
Fertility rates in which of the following countries dropped significantly in the last two decades of the twentieth century due to government policy?
China
Place the following US immigration laws in the order in which they were passed.
Chinese Exclusion Act, Emergency Quota Act, Immigration and Nationality Act, Immigration Reform and Control Act , Secure Fence Act
Although his theory is generally presented in the terminologies of mathematics and social theory, Malthus was probably equally as influenced by his religious views, which endorsed proprietary suffering, as he was by theories of classical economics. Which term best describes Malthus' faith?
Christianity
Using the table to find doubling time, what is the correct order of countries from shortest doubling time to longest?
Country C, Country B, Country A, Country D, Country E
Which statement best describes an economic consequence for the One Child Policy in China?
Declining workforce
Which of the following is NOT a likely government response to an aging population?
Decreasing taxes on the workforce,
Which population pyramid depicts a country in Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model?
E (Most triangle like)
In 1971, Abdel Omran created an Epidemiological Transition model to explain how population growth rates changed at various stages of development in the 20th century as a result of medical innovations. According to the model, in Stage 2, death rates drop as more families gain access to clean water, sanitation utilities, and medicines like penicillin, which decrease death by preventable diseases such as syphilis. Which of the following are MOST instrumental in getting a country to Stage 2 in the Epidemiological Transition Model?
Economic growth
According to the chart above, which country has very high physiological density and more moderate or low arithmetic density?
Egypt
Which government resource is most likely needed as countries enter stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model?
Employment
Which of the following is an example of a policy that is intended to increase birth rates?
Families are given monetary aid for their child care.
Bangladesh's total fertility rate has steadily declined in 21st-century primary due to which factors?
Family Planning
Based on what you know about demographics and the stages of the demographic transition model, which country most likely hosts an aging population?
France
The image above is a graph that shows the split between the world's population living in rural areas, and those living in urban areas. As you might imagine, there are wide variations by country and region. Which of the following groupings contains countries where the majority of the population lives in urban areas?
France, Argentina, New Zealand
Which country is closest to experiencing zero/negative population growth?
Greece
The recent spread of Xenophobia in European countries is due primary to which factor?
Influx of refugees from Africa and the Middle East
India claims to have a "demographic dividend." What does it mean demographically and how is it a dividend?
It is characterized demographically by a population pyramid that is broad at the base. India has spun it as an labor force advantage in attracting economic development.
What was the most commonly cited reason for Chinese and other Asian migrants to move to the United States during the Third Wave of Immigration?
Job opportunities
According to the International Organization for Migration, migrant women and men worldwide send the same amount of money in remittances; however, women send a larger proportion of their income. This provides evidence for each of the following statements EXCEPT
Men feel very little obligation to send money back to their families.
The United States has a crude density of 34/km and a physiologic density of 380/km. Comparatively, Mongolia has a crude density of 2/km and a physiologic density of 413/km. What conclusion can be drawn based on the information above?
Mongolia has less arable land than the United States per km.
In the early 1900s, many African-Americans migrated to northern cities, such as Detroit and Chicago. What was the primary reason for this migration?
Northern cities had economic opportunities open for African Americans and immigrants.
Paid maternity leave is viewed as pronatalist policy for which of the following reasons?
Paid maternity leave allows for families to save money and secure job positions while on leave.
According to stage 2 of the Epidemiological Transition Model, death rates are likely to be caused by
Pandemics
The US Census Bureau calculates that by 2100, the US population could range from 283 million to 1.2 billion. Why are the projections so different?
Population projections assume that birth and death rates and flows of migration remain constant.
Which of the following populations is considered a climate migrant?
Populations in the Maldives moving inland because they are threatened by rising water levels.
According to the World Bank, Italy's Crude Birth Rate is 9 per 1,000 and its Crude Death Rate is 10 per 1,000. The Natural Increase Rate is -1%. Yet its annual population growth is 1.2%. What accounts for the difference between the two figures?
Positive Net Migration
Which statement is most likely made by a Neo-Malthusian?
Programs to prevent an increase in the death rate by giving food to the poor will be ineffective if not accompanied by efforts to control birth rates.
Which of the following physical features pose the greatest challenge for migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa to the European continent?
Sahara Desert
According to the 2005-2009 Community Service Survey, the racial and ethnic composition of Los Angeles, California is as follows: White (41.3%), Latino/Hispanic (29.4%), Asian (10.7%) and African-American (9.8%). However, in Little Tokyo, Asians comprise 48% of the population, followed by Whites (18%), African Americans (18%), and Latinos (16%). This difference demonstrates why it is important for geographers to study the ____________ of population distributions.
Scale
The Schengen Area allows for migration between which of the following countries without the need for a separate visa or passage through border control?
Switzerland and France
According to the population pyramid above, which one of the following statements is not correct?
There are an even number of dependents and economically productive citizens.
Which of the following is an accurate inference from the information on the map above?
There is a high of concentration of population in and around Northeastern metropolitan areas.
Which statement best explains the skewed sex ratio for the population of Bahrain?
There is a large in migration of male guest workers from countries with high unemployment.
Agricultural density differs from crude population density in that
agricultural density measures the amount of farmers per unit of arable area, crude population density measures the number of people per unit of area.
Presently about 40% of the world's population lives within 100 kilometers of the coast, and the percentage has been increasing. What global phenomenon should raise the most concern for human safety in the wake of this trend?
climate change
It is generally agreed that the gender imbalance between men and women in China has been caused by
decades of antinatalist policy to limit population levels.
