Unit 2: Population Quiz

Question 1

Stage 2 Birth Rate & Death Rate:

Level of Growth

Answer 1

Birth Rate = High
Death Rate = Low
Level of Growth = Decreasing

Question 2

Stage 3: Birth Rate & Death Rate:

Level of Growth:

Answer 2

Birth Rate = Decreasing
Death Rate = Slightly decreasing
Level of growth = Moderate

Question 3

Stage 4: Birth Rate & Death rate:

Level of growth:

Answer 3

Birth rate: Decrease
Death Rate: Decrease
Level of growth: Least amount of growth.

Question 4

What is the demographic transition and what is it best used for?

Answer 4

A tool, best used on a country.

Question 5

What are “push factors”?

Answer 5

Negative things.

make you think about wanting to leave, moving.

Question 6

What are some examples of “push factors”?

Answer 6

Oppressive government
social injustice
economics/jobs.

Question 7

What are “pull factors?”

Answer 7

Positive things that are somewhere else
makes you want to go someplace else
usually answer to “push”

Question 8

What are some examples of “pull factors”?

Answer 8

Stable governments
freedom/rights/opportunity
jobs, money
services (Medical)

Question 9

In what stages of the Demographic Transition does a location experience growth from immigration?

Answer 9

All of them.

Question 10

What happened in the 1970’s-190’s?

What was the result?

Answer 10

China experiences a hyper stage-2 growth.

Food shortages, mass of population rationed to a cup of rice a day.

Question 11

What is the government response to what happened in the 1970’s?

Answer 11

Limit families to one child.

Question 12

What is China a perfect example of?

Answer 12

• How government will get involved, even take drastic steps in the face of “population problems”.
• How population can affect someone’s individual, everyday life.

Question 13

What are natural Hazards?

What are some examples?

Answer 13

Thing that naturally happen as part of earths systems.

Question 14

What are 3 causes of Human induced hazards?

Answer 14

1) Over population
2) Over consumption
3) Carelessness

Question 15

What is desertification?

Also known as what?

Answer 15

The transformation of arable (farmable) land into desert either naturally or through human intervention.
Top soil exhaustion.

Question 16

Where is the desertification process taking place right now?

Answer 16

1) Sahara desert

2) Austrailia

Question 17

Throughout the Midwest there is…?

It is protected by what?

Answer 17

Very fertile soil.

A thick layer of prairie grass.

Question 18

An increasing amount of people moving into the area led to?

In addition there was an increase in…? Which fed on…? Which resulted in…?

Answer 18

Increased farming to the point of “social desertification”
Cattle, grass.
Dust.

Question 19

Desertification can…?

Answer 19

1) Disrupt food availability.
2) Force populations to uproot.
3) Can cause very serious problems.

Question 20

What is deforestation?

Answer 20

The process of stripping the land of its trees.

Question 21

Where is deforestation taking place?

Answer 21

Sri Lanka & Brazil

Question 22

Deforestation and desertification are both examples of what?

Answer 22

Growing population causes a growing demand for goods.

Question 23

What does the carrying capacity theory speculate?

Answer 23

The planet only has enough resources to support the existence of a certain amount people.

Question 24

What is the problem with having a solution to over population?

Answer 24

• Will change the way we think and the way we live.

Question 25

What are 4 things we can do to turn around over consumption and carelessness?

Answer 25

• conserve
• recycle
• develop new technologies
• develop a non careless mentality

Question 26

What is the Birth Rate & Death Rate of stage 1?

What is the level of growth?

Answer 26

Birth Rate = High
Death Rate = High
Growth: Low

Question 27

Stage 1: Birth rate/ Death rate

Leave of growth:

Answer 27

High: High: Low