Unit 2

Question 1

What is Population Density?

Answer 1

The number of people per unit of area, usually per square kilometer or square mile.

Question 2

What is Arithmetic Density?

Answer 2

The total number of people divided by the total land area.

Question 3

What is Physiological Density?

Answer 3

The number of people per unit of arable land, giving a better sense of the pressures placed on the land.

Question 4

What is Agricultural Density?

Answer 4

The number of farmers per unit of arable land, measuring economic development and agricultural efficiency.

Question 5

What is Carrying Capacity?

Answer 5

The maximum number of individuals an area can support sustainably, based on its resources.

Question 6

What is the Crude Birth Rate (CBR)?

Answer 6

The number of live births per 1,000 people in a given year.

Question 7

What is the Crude Death Rate (CDR)?

Answer 7

The number of deaths per 1,000 people in a given year.

Question 8

What is the Natural Increase Rate (NIR)?

Answer 8

The difference between the birth rate and the death rate, indicating population growth or decline.

Question 9

What is the Total Fertility Rate (TFR)?

Answer 9

The average number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime.

Question 10

What is the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)?

Answer 10

The number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births.

Question 11

What is Life Expectancy?

Answer 11

The average number of years a person can expect to live, based on current mortality rates.

Question 12

What is the Dependency Ratio?

Answer 12

The number of dependents compared to the working-age population, indicating economic challenges.

Question 13

What is the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?

Answer 13

A model explaining changes in population growth patterns over time, consisting of five stages.

Question 14

What characterizes Stage 1 of the DTM?

Answer 14

High birth and death rates, leading to a stable or slow-growing population.

Question 15

What characterizes Stage 2 of the DTM?

Answer 15

High birth rates and declining death rates lead to rapid population growth.

Question 16

What characterizes Stage 3 of the DTM?

Answer 16

Birth rates start to decline while death rates remain low, leading to slower population growth.

Question 17

What characterizes Stage 4 of the DTM?

Answer 17

Both birth and death rates are low, leading to stable or slow population growth.

Question 18

What characterizes Stage 5 of the DTM?

Answer 18

Birth rates fall below death rates, causing a population decline.

Question 19

What is the Epidemiological Transition Model?

Answer 19

A model correlating with the DTM, focusing on changes in causes of death.

Question 20

What is Internal Migration?

Answer 20

Movement within a country.

Question 21

What is Interregional Migration?

Answer 21

Movement from one region to another.

Question 22

What is Intraregional Migration?

Answer 22

Movement within a region.

Question 23

What is International Migration?

Answer 23

Movement across country borders.

Question 24

What is Voluntary Migration?

Answer 24

Movement by choice, typically for better opportunities.

Question 25

What is Forced Migration?

Answer 25

Movement due to external pressures like war or persecution.

Question 26

Who are Asylum Seekers?

Answer 26

People who migrate to seek asylum due to fear of persecution.

Question 27

What are Push Factors?

Answer 27

Negative conditions that push people to leave a place.

Question 28

What are Pull Factors?

Answer 28

Positive conditions that attract people to a new area.

Question 29

What are Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration?

Answer 29

A set of principles about migration patterns.

Question 30

What is Lee’s Migration Model?

Answer 30

A model explaining migration influenced by push and pull factors.

Question 31

What are Pro-Natalist Policies?

Answer 31

Policies encouraging people to have more children.

Question 32

What are Anti-Natalist Policies?

Answer 32

Policies encouraging people to have fewer children.

Question 33

What is Overpopulation?

Answer 33

A situation where the population exceeds the environment's capacity to support it.

Question 34

What is Sustainability?

Answer 34

Using resources to meet present needs without compromising future generations.

Question 35

What is the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?

Answer 35

A model crucial for understanding population growth changes as countries industrialize.

Question 36

What is the Migration Transition Model (Zelinsky)?

Answer 36

A model relating migration patterns to the stages of the DTM.

Question 37

What is Malthusian Theory?

Answer 37

The theory that populations grow exponentially while food production grows linearly.