AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY PRACTICE TEST CW08
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Which of the following regions is currently experiencing the fastest population growth?
a. Northern Asia
b. Tropical Africa
c. Eastern Europe
d. Sun Belt
e. Northeast United States
2. Most of the world's people live in
a. the world's poorest countries.
b. the southern hemisphere.
c. the developed world.
d. China.
e. urban areas in the developed world.
3. Throughout human history, world population has
a. grown at a steady rate.
b. experienced numerous periods of dramatic decline.
c. been confined to countries in the southern
d. hemisphere.
e. grown most rapidly over the last 200 years.
f. grown most rapidly in the developed world.
4. ______occurs when a population is adding a fixed percentage of people (1,2,3,4,5,6) to a growing population each year:
a. Doubling
b. Arithmetic growth
c. Overpopulation
d. Exponential growth
e. Demographic accounting
5. Life expectancy has increased
a. only in the most-developed countries.
b. only in the least-developed countries.
c. owing to increased food production.
worldwide.
d. men are outliving women.
e. owing to the Green Revolution.
6. The number of live births per thousand people per year is called the
a. total fertility rate.
b. natural increase rate.
c. crude birth rate.
d. exponential growth rate.
e. infant growth rate.
7. Which of the following countries is most likely to be showing the lowest natural increase rate?
a. Afghanistan
b. Mexico
c. United States
d. Japan
e. Chile
8. Total fertility rate is not closely correlated with which of the following?
a. Industrial output
b. Gender empowerment
c. Education
d. Economic development
e. Literacy
9. The world's population is clustered in five regions. Which of the following is not one of these five regions?
a. East Asia
b. Southeast Asia
c. Sub-Saharan Africa
d. Western Europe
10. Thomas Malthus predicted that
- technology will offset population growth.
- the distribution of resources would be a continuing problem.
- population would outpace food production.
- the environment would allow less food to be grown in the future.
- the Green Revolution would provide agricultural technology to support increasing populations.
11. Which of the following countries is at stage two of the demographic transition model?
a. San Marino
b. Nigeria
c. Denmark
d. Russia
e. Finland
12. A rectangle-shaped population pyramid indicates a country that is
a. growing slowly or not at all.
b. growing rapidly.
c. experiencing high immigration rates.
d. composed mainly of the older age classes.
e. highly dependent on the economically productive
generations.
13. The baby boom
a. occurred in the years following World War II.
b. was a result of free love during the late 1960s.
c. was fostered by economic prosperity and relative peace.
d. was limited to California and the West.
e. was described by the off-beat author Douglas
Coupland.
14. When the baby boomers have reached retirement age, what will the population pyramid for the United States look like?
a. An hourglass, wide at both top and bottom but
narrow in the middle
b. Relatively rectangular, with a slight bulge near the top
c. Carrot-shaped, a narrow bottom and wide top
d. Pear-shaped, wide at the bottom, but narrow at the top
e. None of these
15. Which of the following countries would you expect to have the densest population?
a. China
b. Peru
c. Mexico
d. Belgium
e. Colombia
16. Carrying capacity is a function of
a. technology.
b. natural resources.
c. resource allocation.
d. limiting factors.
e. (A), (B), and (D)
17. Population policy usually involves limitations on
a. fertility levels.
b. immigration levels.
c. education levels.
d. All of the above
e. Both (A) and (B)
18. India and China are the world's two most populous countries. While China has instituted a strict population policy, India
a. for cultural reasons, encourages women to
continue to reproduce.
b. does not endorse birth control because of the
Catholic majority.
c. encourages lower fertility through education
and access to family planning.
d. has a similar policy as China.
e. because of their agricultural system, encourages
reproduction.
19. Traditionally, the Ganges and Nile River valleys have had comparitivley high population densities because of their:
a. tropical climate
b. heavy industrialization.
c. in-migration form neighboring arid areas.
d. intensive agriculture based on irrigation.
e. designations as sacred sites.
20. Which of the following is most characteristic of societies currently in the last stage of demographic transition?
a. hyperinflation.
b. unemployment.
c. youth dependency
d. aging population.
e. overpopulation.
21. Of the following countries, which has the fewest people per arable unit of land?
a. Guatemala.
b. Bangladesh
c. Netherlands.
d. Argentina
e. Egypt
22. Libonia has a crude birth rate of 25 and a crude death rate of 12. Moglobistan has a crude birth rate of 40 and a crude death rate of 25. Which country has the highest rate of natural increase?
a. neither of them will because the natural rate of
increase is above 2.
b. Libonia will, because its crude birth rate is higher.
c. Moglobistan will because its crude birth rate is
higher.
d. Libonia will because its crude death rate is lower.
e. Mobglobistan will, because its difference between the two rates is highest.
23.. If a country has a crude birth rate of 21 and a crude death rate of 9 (the world averages), then in what stage of the DTM is it in?
a. Stage 1
b. Stage 2
c. Stage 3
d. Stage 4
e. Somewhere between stage 1 and 2
24. The “population explosion” began in which century?
a. 17th
b. 18th
c. 19th
d. 20th
e. 16th.
25. As countries enter stages 3 and 4 of the DTM,
most of their population would be located:
a. in rural areas
b. near employment centers
c. in large cities
d. near fertile land.
e. near the mouth of rivers
Free-Response Question
A. Define arithmetic density.
B. Explain one limitation of arithmetic density in accurately describing population density.
C. Define physiological density, and explain how it is related o the concept of carrying capacity.
FREE RESPONSE QUESTION
Compare and contrast a population pyramid of a country in stage II of the DTM in the 1900’s and stage II in the 1800’s. Use and explain at least three facts that are apparent in each of the pyramids. Make certain you explain the types of countries involved and the circumstances of their position in Stage II.
Free-Response Question
1. According to the demographic transition model, population growth should slow down as a country becomes more developed. Although many of the world's most-developed countries have already made the transition to extremely low, or even negative growth rates, some have not. The United States, for example, experienced increased population growth during the 1990s. Explain recent population growth in the United States, compared to slow growth in other highly developed countries.
Free-Response Question
2. Exponential world population growth is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary human geography. Explain this growth in terms of
(a) historical trends
(b) global geographic patterns
(c) economic development