Chapter 3 Test- Earth's Human Geography

By comparing birthrates and death rates, demographers figure out (a)   .

• Population Growth

• Demographic Transition

• Life Expectancy

• Migration

Because of an increase in food supply and better medical care the world's population recently has (a)   .

• rapidly increased

• made educational gains

• remained the same

• slowly decreased

What is one effect of the rapid population growth in developing countries?

• The amount of land covered by forests has increased.

• Technological resources have expanded.

• Resources are strained.

• Food is being overproduced.

To explain the reasons for immigration, demographers use ​ (a)  

• life expectancies.

• birthrates and death rates.

• the "push-Pull" theory.
• surveys

Many people leave the country for the city because they want ​ (a)  

• to find jobs.
• to own land.
• to increase food production.
• to improve their health.

Communism and capitalism are examples of ​ (a)   .

• economic systems
• political systems
• educational methods.
• technological achievements

Subsistence farms raise enough food to ​ (a)   .

• feed only the farmers' families
• export food to other countries
• turn a developing nation into a developed one
• feed an entire country

A government controlled by a small group of people is called a (a)   . A) direct democracy. B) dictatorship. C) city-state. D) oligarchy.

• direct democracy

• dictatorship

• city-state

• oligarchy

Three examples of forms of government are (a)   .

• monarchy, extended family, and population.

• constitutional monarchy, dictatorship, and economic.

• democracy, capitalism, and constitutional monarchy.

• monarchy, democracy, and dictatorship.

Population growth is when the birth rate is higher than the death rate.

• True

• False