Unit 2

Question 1

Demography

Answer 1

Studies population and population characteristics
Predicts future growth and identifies potential population issues

Question 2

demographers

Answer 2

People who study population.They consider how people are spread out by age, health, gender, occupation, and fertility, among other things.

Question 3

Population distribution

Answer 3

The pattern in which humans are spread out on Earth’s surface.

Question 4

Eurasia

Answer 4

A massive piece of land on Earth that consists of Europe and Asia

Question 5

Population clusters

Answer 5

Heavily populated areas that illustrate the unevenness in global population distribution.

Question 6

The main clusters are:

Answer 6

European, southeast asian, south asian, and east asian clusters

Question 7

Metacity

Answer 7

A city with more than 20 million residents

Question 8

Megacity

Answer 8

A city with more than 10 million residents

Question 9

Developed (or industrialized) country

Answer 9

A country with an advanced economy and a high standard of living.

Question 10

Developing (or industrializing) countries

Answer 10

Countries that are of relatively low income or economically poorer than developed countries.

Question 11

Snow Belt

Answer 11

States located in the northern and midwestern parts of the country

Question 12

Sunbelt

Answer 12

States in coastal areas and the South and Southwest.

Question 13

Mean center of population

Answer 13

The balancing point given the distribution of population.

Question 14

Physical Factors

Answer 14

Climate,Landforms,Water bodies

Question 15

Climate

Answer 15

weather pattern over time; people tend to live in moderate temperatures and in lower latitudes because of the abundance of rainfall

Question 16

Landforms

Answer 16

People tend to live on areas where they can grow crops or where there are constant sustainable natural resources to sustain human life

Question 17

Water bodies

Answer 17

water for people and plants (crops), access to freshwater

Question 18

Elevation

Answer 18

The distance above sea level.

Question 19

Human Factors

Answer 19

Culture,Economics,History,Political

Question 20

Culture

Answer 20

people tend to live among their cultural groups

Question 21

Economics

Answer 21

how can people make money

Question 22

History

Answer 22

events of the past influence where people live today

Question 23

Political

Answer 23

types of governments/levels of freedom

Question 24

After moving for natural features, people move for:

Answer 24

Safety
Economic reasons (Jobs)
Friends or relatives
Close to trade routes (roads, trains, rivers)
Political decisions (military posts in the arctic)
Religious reasons (Amish resettling because of persecution)
Cultural reasons

Question 25

Density

Answer 25

is the number of people in a space.

Question 26

Distribution

Answer 26

is the spatial spread of people in a space

Question 27

Population density

Answer 27

The average number of people per unit of land area.

Question 28

Arithmetic (crude) density

Answer 28

The average number of people per unit of land area (usually per square mile or kilometer).

Question 29

Physiological density

Answer 29

The average number of people per unit area (a square mile or kilometer) of arable land — that is, land suitable for cultivation.

Question 30

Agricultural density

Answer 30

The number of farmers per unit of arable land

Question 31

Physiological population density differs from crude population density in that physiological density

Answer 31

explains density in terms of people per arable square land unit, while crude density explain density in terms of people per total square land unit

Question 32

Carrying capacity

Answer 32

The number of people a particular environment or Earth as a whole can support on a sustainable basis

Question 33

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

Answer 33

carrying capacity

Question 34

Human well-being

Answer 34

The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.

Question 35

Population composition

Answer 35

The makeup of the population by age and sex as well as by ethnic, racial, income, and educational background

Question 36

Age structure

Answer 36

Refers to the breakdown of a population into different age groups or cohorts.

Question 37

Dependency ratio

Answer 37

The number of dependents in a population, that each 100 working-age people (ages 15 to 64 years) must support.

Question 38

Youth dependency ratio

Answer 38

The number of young dependents in a population (usually people younger than 15 years of age) that every 100 working-age people must support.