APHG Unit 2

Replacement level, the number of births needed to keep a population at a stable level without immigration, requires a total fertility of

2.1

Reasons why women in the United States are having fewer children than 50 years

ago include all of the following except

women have poorer diets

Carrying capacity is the

maximum number of people an area can support using all of its available resources and technology.

Countries with aging populations attempt to stimulate economic growth to lessen the effect of rising medical and retirement costs by

promoting immigration.

Almost everywhere on Earth, Total Fertility Rates (TFRs) are

falling

The arithmetic density of population for a country is determined by dividing the total

population by the total area.

The problem with using arithmetic population density to investigate the population pattern of a country is that such a density figure does not take into consideration

internal clustering of people within the country.

The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land is the

physiologic density.

The world's three largest population concentrations are all found on the same landmass, which is:

Eurasia.

About ___ percent of the world's population is concentrated in China.

25%

The major focus of North America's population is

the Megalopolis region

Various organizations protested the 2000 United States census because

of the possibility of under-counting disadvantaged populations.

In 1789, a British economist named Thomas Malthus published an essay in which he claimed that while population increased at what he called a geometric rate, the means of subsistence grew only at

an arithmetic (linear) rate.

Food production, contrary to the predictions of Malthus, has grown exponentially because of a number of factors. Which one of the following is not one of these factors?

an increase in the number of farmers in Britain

Births and _______ add to the population growth of a particular country.

immigration

Between 1820 and 1930, world population

doubled.

Low population growth resulting from high CBR and very high CDR is characteristic of stage ____ of the demographic transition

1

Population policies which favor the promotion of birth control among certain groups in the population (ethnic, religious, or socio-economic groups) are referred to as

eugenics.

The four major population clusters in the world include all of the following regions except

East Asia

Associated with the East Asian population cluster are ribbon-like extensions of dense population penetrating the interior. These extensions represent

basins and lowlands of China's major rivers.

Most of the countries with low population growth rates are also among the wealthiest. An exception to this would be

Russia

Today, an estimated ___________ illegal immigrants live in the United States.

10,000,000

The type of movement that involves journeys that begin at and bring us back to our home base is called...

cyclic

Most nomadic movement takes place according to travel patterns that are...

repeated time and time again.

Which of the identified types of movement creates your activity space?

Cyclic

All of the following are examples of periodic movements except

Commuting to work

A periodic form of movement that involves a system of pastoral farming whereby livestock and their keepers adjust their location to the seasonal availability of pastures is called:

transhumance.

The long-term relocation of an individual, household, or group to a new location outside the community of origin is called

migration

During the first decades of the twentieth century, African American families in the United States migrated primarily to

north

In the United States during the late twentieth century, internal migration streams were moving people from..

east to west and north to south.

Irish migration to North America in the mid-1800s is an example of...

migration which reflects both forced and voluntary aspects of migration.

Gender studies of migration indicate that men ______________ than women.

Migrate farther, more mobile, and

have more employment choices and income

Which of the following is not one of Ernst Ravenstein's laws of migration?

The majority of urban migrants are uneducated.

One of the "laws" of migration as derived by Ravenstein states that...

urban residents are less migratory than rural.

Ravenstein, in his study of migration, suggested that there is an inverse relationship between the volume of migration and the distance between the source and destination. That is, the number of migrants _____ as the distance they know they must travel increases.

decreases

What is the model which states that spatial interaction between places (e.g. migration) is directly related to the population size and inversely related to the distance between them?

gravity model

According to Ravenstein, migrants who move longer distances tend to choose

big-city destinations.

A common form of periodic movement involving as many as 10 million Americans is...

military service

British colonial authorities stimulated migration of people from this region to colonies such as Singapore, Fiji, and Trinidad.

south asia

Major routes of human migration before 1950 include all of the following except:

china to india

A person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion is officially a:

refugee

Today, the largest refugee numbers in Southeast Asia are reported from...

Myanmar (Burma).

The practice of excluding people with criminal records, health problems, or subversive political beliefs from immigrating is referred to as...

selective immigration

Since September 2001, there has been a greater concern about immigration control to....

prevent terrorism

Site/place characteristics include...

the unique physical and human characteristics of a location.

All of the following are intervening obstacles to the flow of goods and people except

highways

All maps have...

distortion

The idea that spatial interaction declines as distance increases is known as...

distance-decay.

GPS stands for

global positioning system.