EXAM 2

Question 1

India, Pakistan, & Bangladesh form a major part of what world population cluster?

Answer 1

South Asia

Question 2

What is the world’s most populous country?

Answer 2

China

Question 3

What is the current natural increase rate (NIR) of the world?

Answer 3

1.1%

Question 4

Which continent has the highest natural increase rate (NIR)?

Answer 4

Asia

Question 5

Which continent has the highest crude birth rate (CBR)?

Answer 5

Africa

Question 6

86% of the world’s total population growth since 1980 has come from which 2 continents?

Answer 6

Asia and Africa

Question 7

What is the continent with the highest crude death rate (CDR)?

Answer 7

Europe

Question 8

For most of human history, populations were in what stage of the Demographic Transition?

Answer 8

Stage 1

Question 9

Rapidly declining crude death rates (CDR) are found in which stage of the Demographic Transition?

Answer 9

Stage 2

Question 10

The highest natural increase rates (NIR) are found in countries in which stage of the Demographic Transition?

Answer 10

Stage 2

Question 11

How are stages 1 & 4 of the Demographic Transition similar?

Answer 11

They both have low rates of natural increase (NIR)

Question 12

What is infant mortality rate (IMR)?

Answer 12

The annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age compared with total live births

Question 13

What is life expectancy?

Answer 13

The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, & medical conditions

Question 14

What does a wide base in a population pyramid suggest?

Answer 14

A country that is in Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition

Question 15

In comparing Thomas Malthus’s theory to actual world food production & population growth during the past half-century, the principal difference is….

Answer 15

Actual food production has been much higher than Malthus predicted

Question 16

What is total fertility rate (TFR)?

Answer 16

The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years, roughly ages 15 through 49

Question 17

What would mark the possibility of a stage 5 demographic transition?

Answer 17

A negative natural increase rate (NIR)

Question 18

What is migration?

Answer 18

A permanent move to a new location

Question 19

What did Wilbur Zelinksy’s model of migration predict?

Answer 19

That migrants move most frequently for economic reasons

Question 20

What did Ravenstein find out?

Answer 20

Most migrants generally travel short distances within the same country

Question 21

In what stage does the migration transition model predict a peak of international migration?

Answer 21

Stage 2

Question 22

What are the 3 largest flows of migrants in the world?

Answer 22

Asia to Europe
Asia to North America
Latin America to North America

Question 23

Where were the origins of most migrants to the USA in 1776?

Answer 23

Europe and Africa

Question 24

Where were the origins of most migrants to the USA in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

Answer 24

Europe

Question 25

Where are the origins of migrants to the USA during the late 20th and early 21st centuries?

Answer 25

Latin America and Asia

Question 26

How did the Brazilian government encourage interregional migration?

Answer 26

By moving the capital from Rio to Brasilia

Question 27

What is counterurbanization?

Answer 27

Migration from urban to rural areas

Question 28

What has the leading cause for migration to the U.S. and Canada been?

Answer 28

Economic opportunity

Question 29

What event would be considered a migration pull factor?

Answer 29

Opening of a new factory

Question 30

Refugees migrate primarily because of which type of push factor?

Answer 30

Political reasons

Question 31

What is a state?

Answer 31

An area organized into a political unit

Question 32

What were the first states in ancient Mesopotamia?

Answer 32

City-states

Question 33

What are the attributes of a state?

Answer 33

Sovereignty, government, permanent population, and territory

Question 34

What is the United Nations?

Answer 34

A global organization created at the end of World War 2 that provides a forum for the discussion of international problems

Question 35

How did political unity in the ancient world reach its height?

Answer 35

With the establishment of the Roman Empire

Question 36

What is a nation?

Answer 36

A large group of people who are united by common cultural characteristics

Question 37

What is a colony?

Answer 37

A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than being independent

Question 38

What are some examples of a physical boundary?

Answer 38

Mountains, deserts, or water

Question 39

What type of boundary separates Chile & Argentina?

Answer 39

Physical boundary (mountain)

Question 40

What do the U.S. and Canada share?

Answer 40

2 geometric boundaries; 1 that runs along the 49° north latitude & the other between Alaska & Yukon Territory

Question 41

What are examples of an elongated state?

Answer 41

Malawi and Gambia

Question 42

What are examples of compact states?

Answer 42

Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda

Question 43

What state shape most easily fosters the establishment of effective internal communications for a smaller state?

Answer 43

Compact

Question 44

What is an example of a perforated state?

Answer 44

South Africa

Question 45

What is more typical of a democracy than an autocracy?

Answer 45

Institutionalized constraints on the exercise of power by the executive

Question 46

What is a unitary state?

Answer 46

A state which places most power in the hands of a central government

Question 47

What is gerrymandering?

Answer 47

The process of redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit the party in power

Question 48

What EU policy instigated “Brexit?”

Answer 48

Free movement of citizens among EU member countries

Question 49

What is true of the Islamic State (ISIS)?

Answer 49

ISIS controlled territory in Syria & Iraq, ISIS claims that is has authority to rule Muslims around the world, Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to ISIS, and ISIS has had success recruiting members through the Internet & social media

Question 50

What is true of al-Qaeda?

Answer 50

Al-Qaeda’s founder was Osama bin Laden, in 1998 Osama bin Laden issued a declaration of war against the US, Al-Qaeda was responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the USA, and Al-Qaeda has loosely affiliated “franchises” in many countries