Take this Quiz: AP Human Geography — population and migration | Zestly

Question 1

In the invented country of Fertilia, death rates have fallen sharply as sanitation and medicine have spread, while birth rates remain at their earlier high level and the population is growing fast. Which stage of the demographic transition model does this describe?

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The second stage, in which deaths have fallen while births remain high

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The first stage, in which births and deaths are both high and roughly in balance

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The third stage, in which births have begun to fall in their turn and growth is slowing

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The fourth stage, in which both rates are low and the population is roughly stable

Question 2

The invented nation of Juvenia has a population structure with a very wide base of children and teenagers. What is the most direct implication of this age structure for the country's immediate economic situation?

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A high dependency ratio requiring investment in schools and healthcare

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A surplus of tax revenue from a large working-age population

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A need to import labour to support a large elderly population

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A stagnant economy due to a lack of new consumers

Question 3

Thomas Malthus argued that population grows faster than the food supply, so that growth must eventually be checked by famine, disease or war. Ester Boserup made a different case. What did she argue?

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That the pressure of a growing population is itself what drives people to farm more intensively, so that output rises to meet it

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That growth must be deliberately restrained if yields are to be protected, since more intensive farming exhausts the land

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That growth is checked long before any crisis arrives, because disease and famine act early and keep numbers in step with the food supply

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That the size of a population makes no difference to how much food is produced, since output is set by soil and climate alone

Question 4

In the invented territory of Portia, people are leaving the rural interior because of a lack of electricity and limited job opportunities, while moving to the coastal city of Haven because of its new manufacturing plants and better schools. Which statement best describes this migration?

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It is an example of step migration where people move to multiple cities

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It is a counter-flow migration where people move back to the rural areas

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It is purely a forced migration caused by environmental factors

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It involves both push factors from the interior and pull factors to the coast

Question 5

In the invented country of Meridia the records show that most people who move go only as far as the next district, that the numbers moving fall off sharply as distance rises, and that for every large flow towards the capital there is a smaller flow back out of it. What do these findings illustrate?

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Step migration, in which one migrant reaches a distant city by a series of shorter moves spread over several years

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The demographic transition, since shorter distances travelled are a feature of its later stages

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The regularities Ravenstein described, distance decay in migration and a counter-flow accompanying every major stream, which hold as tendencies rather than as laws without exceptions

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That Ravenstein's account has been disproved, since a genuine law of migration would permit no flow in the opposite direction