Exam 2: Population and Health Geography

One of Ravenstein's laws states that the majority of migrants travel only a short distance.

Typical push-pull factors of migration can be sorted into four categories: economic, political, environmental, and cultural.

It is believed that with increasing industrialization, fertility increases.

What do health geographers aim to understand?

In the nineteenth century, North America experienced three pandemics (in 1832, 1848, and 1866) of which disease?

The demographic transition theory is less realistic than most of the other population theories as it is not based on known facts.

What is the first stage of the epidemiological transition called?

Generally, a total fertility rate of between 2.1 and 2.5 is considered appropriate to maintain a stable population.

Which of the following is a "pull" factor of migration?

Which was the first region of high population density that appeared about 9,000 years ago?

The lowest fertility rates in the world today are found in several African countries with TFR as low as 1.1 per cent.

Migration may be induced by environmental reasons such as flooding and desertification.

Differentiate between population density and physiological density.

Identify three measures of mortality.

Explain how government policies affect population.

Compare the global patterns of crude birth rates and crude death rates (Figures 5.1 and 5.3 in the text). Describe and explain the similarities and differences in these two patterns.

Describe the spatial distribution of population in East Asia.

The most populous country in the world, as of 2017, is India.

Define total fertility rate (TFR) and identify the important assumption it makes.

Compare and contrast two types of migration in terms of driving forces and of typical places people move from and move to. Provide specific examples of each from history.