Population Geography

The study of statistics is...

• geography

• cartography

• human geography

• demography

What are some characteristics that can determine a carrying capacity?

• water, oxygen, space, food

• amount of cities, neighborhoods, and counties

• replacement rate, population pyramid, and physiological population density

• dependency ratio, demographic momentum, and number of emmigrants

Based on this population pyramid, what stage of the DTM is the USA in?

• Stage 4
• Stage 5
• Stage 3
• Stage 2

To find out where people live, we use____. To find out the number of farmers per unit area of farmland, we use____. To find out how much food is being produced in an area, we use____.

• Arithmetic population density, agricultural population density, physiological population density

• dependency ratio, natural rate of increase, doubling time

• physiological density, arithmetic density, agricultural density

• arithmetic density, physiological density, agricultural density

Following World War II, the amount of births increased, and about 4.24 million babies a year were born from 1946 to 1964. What is this an example of?

• baby boom

• baby bust

• replacement rate

• Boserup theory

Which groups are considered to be part of the dependency ratio?

• Seniors above 64 and children below 15

• Seniors above 70 and children below 14

• Any adult between the age of 16 to 63

• Seniors above 85 and children below 18

In Japan, the natural rate of increase is____ because they are in stage____ of the DTM.

• Zero, stage one

• Positive, stage two

• Stable, stage four

• Negative, stage five

The replacement rate of the US is...

• 2.1

• 1.2

• 0.5

• 2.3

What is the doubling time for the USA?

• 75 years

• 150 years

• 200 years

• 50 years

What does this picture show?

• the patterns of the epidemiological transition model

• the patterns of the demographic transition model

• demographic momentum

• replacement rate