Population and Health - AP Human Geography

How many countries today are in Stage one of the Demographic transition model?

• 53 (some countries in Asia and Sub Saharan Africa)

• 22 (some countries in Asia and Sub Saharan Africa)

• 3 (Somalia, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan)

• 0

What did Thomas Malthus believe?

• The World population would be limited by the amount of food we can produce

• The World population would be limited by total land resources

• The World population would be limited by technological high marks

• The World population would be limited by cultural appropriation

The number of deaths among infants under age one as measured per thousand live births

• infant mortality rate
• death rate
• rate of natural decrease
• carrying capacity

The rate at which population is growing, found by subtracting the mortality rate from the birthrate. (Also called population growth rate.)

• population density
• rate of natural increase
• pull rate
• push rate

The average number of people who live in a measurable area, reached by dividing the number of inhabitants in an area by the amount of land they occupy

• carrying capacity
• GDP
• population density
• GNP

The arithmetic population density for a country or region is determined by dividing the total:

• population by the number of farmers

• population by the total land area

• number of farmers by the total population

• area of square miles by the number of homes

• number of children by the number of mothers

In 1798, Thomas Malthus published an essay in which he claimed that population increased at a(n) ____________ rate, while the means of subsistence grew at a(n) _____________ rate

• geometric; arithmetic

• cultural; ethnic

• arithmetic; geometric

• declining; increasing

• exponential; geometric

Based on the image above, in what stage of the DTM will China be in the year 2050?

• Stage 1

• Stage 2

• Stage 3

• Stage 4

• Stage 5

A disease that spreads to a global scale is known as a

• epidemic

• contagion

• pesitlence

• pandemic

• affliction

The Image above is of a modern country in ______ of the Demographic Transition Model

• Stage 1

• Stage 2

• Stage 3

• Stage 4