Chapter 2 Notes and Vocab

Question 1

Depicts the sizes of countries according to population rather than land area

Answer 1

Cartogram

Question 2

Concentration can be displayed on what type of map?

Answer 2

Cartogram

Question 3

how much of the earths population takes up 4 regions?

Answer 3

Two thirds

Question 4

Two thirds of the worlds population takes up how many clusters

Answer 4

Four

Question 5

We understand how population is distributed by two basic properties:

Answer 5

Concentration and density

Question 6

The four clusters occupy what kind of areas

Answer 6

Low lying areas with fertile soil and temperate climate

Question 7

Most people in clusters live near what?

Answer 7

The ocean or a river

Question 8

The four main clusters are

Answer 8

East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and Southeast Asia

Question 9

1/4 of the worlds people live in what cluster

Answer 9

East Asia or South Asia

Question 10

East Asia includes

Answer 10

China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan

Question 11

_____ is the fourth largest country land wise

Answer 11

China

Question 12

_____ is the worlds most populous country

Answer 12

China

Question 13

The Chinese population is clustered where?

Answer 13

Along the pacific coast and along rivers

Question 14

Half of the Chinese population lives in what kind of areas?

Answer 14

Live in rural areas and work as farmers

Question 15

Most of China is

Answer 15

Sparsely inhabited

Question 16

More than three fourths of Japanese and Koreans live in

Answer 16

Urban cities

Question 17

South Asia includes

Answer 17

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka

Question 18

South Asia mostly concentrated

Answer 18

Along a corridor through Pakistan India and Bangladesh to Bay of Bengal

Question 19

Europe includes how many countries

Answer 19

Four dozen

Question 20

10% of Europeans are

Answer 20

Farmers

Question 21

Most Europeans live

Answer 21

In cities

Question 22

600 million people live in what cluster

Answer 22

Southeast Asia

Question 23

Fourth most populated country

Answer 23

Indonesia

Question 24

Places where not many people are populated are

Answer 24

Dry, wet, cold, high

Question 25

The portion of Earth’s surface occupied by permanent human settlement.

Answer 25

Ecumene

Question 26

What is the main reason people wouldn’t want to live in a certain place?

Answer 26

You can’t farm there

Question 27

The total number of people divided by the total land area.

Answer 27

Arithmetic density

Question 28

The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.

Answer 28

Physiological density

Question 29

The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.

Answer 29

Agricultural density

Question 30

The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.

Answer 30

Crude Birth Rate

Question 31

The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.

Answer 31

Crude death rate

Question 32

The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate.

Answer 32

Natural increase rate

Question 33

The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.

Answer 33

Doubling time

Question 34

The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years.

Answer 34

Total fertility rate

Question 35

A bar graph that represents the distribution of population by age and sex.

Answer 35

Population pyramid

Question 36

The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force.

Answer 36

Dependency ratio

Question 37

The number of males per 100 females in the population.

Answer 37

Sex ratio