Chapter 2 and 3

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT one of the four largest clusters of population in the world? South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, or East Asia

Answer 1

Sub-Saharan Africa

Question 2

Where do you find most of the world’s population growth?

Answer 2

Developing countries

Question 3

What is total fertility rate?

Answer 3

Average number of children per woman of childbearing years

Question 4

According to Ravenstein, most international migrants tend to be what?

Answer 4

Adult males looking for work

Question 5

How is migration different from movement?

Answer 5

Migration is permanent

Question 6

Which two countries have over 2 billion people between them?

Answer 6

India and China

Question 7

What happens in crude birth rate is higher than crude death rate?

Answer 7

A natural increase

Question 8

What do you call the average number of people per unit of arable land (land suitable for agriculture)?

Answer 8

Physiological density

Question 9

A population pyramid for less developed countries would probably look like what? (draw it!)

Answer 9

Wide base with a narrow top

Question 10

True or False: Most migration in the United States has been from rural to suburban areas.

Answer 10

False: from urban to suburban

Question 11

Less developed countries will usually be in which stage of the DTM?

Answer 11

Stage 2

Question 12

Policies such as the One Child Policy has encouraged what to happen in some Asian countries?

Answer 12

A preference for males leading to female infanticide

Question 13

What is the dependency ratio?

Answer 13

People under 15 or over 65 who depend on others

Question 14

What is the demographic equation?

Answer 14

Birth rate minus death rate plus net migration

Question 15

What do you call migration from one region of a country to another?

Answer 15

Interregional migration

Question 16

What is the portion of the Earth’s surface inhabited by humans?

Answer 16

Ecumene

Question 17

True or False: Countries that have a high natural increase have a large doubling time.

Answer 17

False: The higher the natural increase, the shorter the doubling time. Doubling time is the time needed for a population to double.

Question 18

What is diffusion?

Answer 18

The spread of ideas, knowledge, and skills from their places of origin

Question 19

What do you call migration flows from a common origin to the same destination?

Answer 19

Chain migration

Question 20

What do the interregional migrations of China and Brazil have in common?

Answer 20

Both were motivated by people looking for jobs.

Question 21

What are the two stages of the demographic transition that we see the biggest changes?

Answer 21

2nd and 3rd

Question 22

What happened to the indigenous population of North America after the arrival of Europeans?

Answer 22

A major decrease because of new disease

Question 23

What is hierarchical diffusion?

Answer 23

Diffusion from a central place of authority

Question 24

What is the gravity model?

Answer 24

States that the likelyhood of two countries is related to their populations and distance

Question 25

The majority of guest workers in Europe have come from what two regions?

Answer 25

The Middle east and North Africa

Question 26

What is the periodic movement of animals from higher elevations in the summer to lower in the winter called?

Answer 26

transhumance