Exam 3: Population Geography: Shaping the Human Mosaic

A central geographic fact is that people are evenly distributed over Earth.

Almost three-quarters of the world's population lives in:

Humans tend to have an affinity for the coast because of _____; humans tend to avoid the continental interior because it is often _____.

Most of the spatial expansion of Latin American cities is a result of:

The critics of Thomas Malthus who argue that science and technology can solve resource shortages are known as:

-Based on this map, which statement is NOT accurate?

The rise of machinery has led to the depopulation of once-thriving farm towns.

Which is true of the total fertility rate?

Today more people migrate to Europe than migrate from it.

The size and patterns of human settlements depend in part on the needs of the population to be accommodated.

In general, death rates of more than 20 per 1000 people are uncommon today.

Farm villages are the most important form of settlement in all of the following EXCEPT:

The three most important population clusters globally are East Asia, South Asia, and Europe.

-According to this map, all of the following have low birth rates EXCEPT:

A country's population will decline if its total fertility rate is:

Because gender ratios result in an even balance between males and females, no country has a profound gender imbalance.

In which region is the population the oldest?

Mao Zedong was aggressively anti-natalist at the beginning of his political career.

Politically, Pico Island is a part of:

Imagine that a certain country's population pyramid is very wide at the bottom. What does this predict about that country's birth rate 20 years from now?