Unit 2 - Population & Migration Flashcards
(34 cards)
Why is the US census politically important?
Some legislative seats including those of the House of Representatives are apportioned according to population
What factors might cause a Geographer to characterize a country as “overpopulated”?
The population numbers are less than one million but there is a concern that the country’s natural resources are adequate for only have the number of people
The earth area of permanent human settlement is called the…
ecumene
What are the most populated countries in each region of Asia?
Southeast Asia - Indonesia
China
What does a population cartogram show?
dense areas
We can deduce that the eastern coast of Australia was intensely settled by which year?
AD 1400
Relatively few people live at _______ , but there are significant exceptions, especially in Latin America.
High Elevations
Approximately 10,000 years ago Earth’s human population….
began to increase at a unprecedented rate following millennia of near stagflation
Among the following world regions, the least densely populated is….
Sub-Saharan Africa
Physiological density is the number of…
People per area suitable for agriculture
Land suited for agriculture is called…
arable land
We can deduce that a country would raise or increase its physiological density by…
increasing the size of its population
We can calculate that a country would raise or increase its agricultural density if it…
decrease the amount of agricultural land
We can deduce that a country would could lower its arithmetic density by…
limiting the size of its population
India and UK….From this we can conclude that that two countries have roughly the same…
number of people per area of land
We might expect to find a lower proportion of farmers living in which of these areas
southeastern europe
A country with a large amount of arable land and a small number of farmers will have a….
low agricultural density
The average number of births women bear in their lifetimes is the…
total fertility rate
The fertility rate based on the number of live births per 1000 residents is the….
crude birth rate
Doubling Time
The number of years needed to double a population assuming a constant rate of natural increase
Demography
The scientific study of population characteristics
census
A complete enumeration of a population
A decline in a country’s crude birth rate would result in an increase in that country’s…
doubling time
The total number of live births per year per 1000 people in a society is….
Crude birth rate
