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RUBENSTEIN, An Introduction to Human Geography, The Cultural Landscape Chapter 2 Population MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that A) it is increasing more slowly than in the past. B) there are more people alive in the world now than at any time in the past. C) the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries. D) people are uniformly distributed across Earth. Answer: C Difficulty: 2 2) Geographers define overpopulation as A) too many people in the world. B) too many people compared to resources. C) too many people in a region. D) all of the above

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Chapter 5 Human Geography TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false. 51) More people are alive now than at any time in the past. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 52) Since the end of World War II, world population has been growing more slowly than in the past. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 53) Most population growth is presently concentrated in more developed countries. Answer: FALSE Diff: 1 54) Nearly half of the people in the world live in East and South Asia. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 55) Two thousand years ago, East and South Asia contained about the same percentage of world population as they do now. Answer: TRUE Diff: 3

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Chapter 2 Population MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that A) it is increasing more slowly than in the past. B) there are more people alive in the world now than at any time in the past. C) the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries. D) people are uniformly distributed across Earth. Answer: C Diff: 2 2) Geographers define overpopulation as A) too many people in the world. B) too many people compared to resources. C) too many people in a region. D) all of the above Answer: B Diff: 1 3) The world's largest concentration of people is located in A) East Asia. B) South Asia.

Unit 1 Test Study Guide

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Cultural Geography ? Geog 2001 Study Guide Fall Semester Test One: Chapters 1-4 J. Naumann 1) How does Environment Determinism explain the relationship between the environment (physical conditions of nature) and culture? 2) How does Possibilism explain the relationship between the environment (physical conditions of nature) and culture? 3) What were the adverse environmental impacts of rechannelling the Kissimmee River in Florida ? 4) What are characteristics of meridians in the Earth's Coordinate System? 5) What are characteristics of parallels in the Earth's Coordinate System? 6) What is map scale? 7) What are the characteristics of a small scale map? A large scale map?

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Chapter 2 Population 1 Population: A Critical Issue A study of population is important in understanding a number of issues in human geography. So our first main issue is a study of population. The Key Issues your book mentions are: 1. Where is the world?s population distributed? 2. Where has the world?s population increased? 3. Why is population increasing at different rates in different countries? 4. Why might the world face an overpopulation problem? 2 Study of Population The study of population is critically important for three reasons: The world?s population increased at a faster rate during the second half of the twentieth century than ever before in history. Virtually all global population growth is concentrated in less developed countries.

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Geographers define overpopulation as too many people compared to resources ? Two-thirds of the world's population is clustered in four regions. Which of the following is not one of these four regions? Sub-Saharan Africa ? Most people live in cities in which of these regions? Western Europe ? The most populous country in the Southeast Asia region is Indonesia ? Physiological density is the number of people per area suitable for agriculture ? A country with a large amount of arable land and a small number of farmers will have a low agricultural density ? If the physiological density is much larger than the arithmetic density, then a country has a small percentage of land suitable for agriculture ?

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1.? A state that is completely surrounded by the land of other states, which gives it a disadvantage?in terms of accessibility to and from international trade routes. A. Landlocked State B. Compact State C. Elongated State D. Preforated State E. Enclave 2.? Geographers define overpopulation as A. too many people in a region B. too many people compared to resources C. too many people in the world D. all of the above E. a and c 3.? Most people live in cities in which of these regions? A. East Asia B. Europe C. Southeast Asia D. South Asia E. Sub-Saharan Africa 4.? Human beings avoid all but which of these regions? A. cold lands B. warm lands C. dry lands

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The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography, 10e (Rubenstein) Chapter 2 Population 1) One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that A) the natural increase rate is larger every year. B) there are fewer people in the world now than at the peak in the middle of the twentieth century. C) the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries. D) people are uniformly distributed across Earth. E) the less developed countries have the highest combined crude death rate. 2) Geographers define overpopulation as A) too many people in the world. B) too many people compared to resources. C) too many people in a region. D) all of the above E) A and C

AP Human Geography Chapter 2 Test Questions

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1) The Indus and Ganges river plains hold a major part of what world population cluster? South Asia 2) One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries. 3) Geographers define overpopulation as too many people compared to environmental capacity. 4) Human beings avoid all but which of these regions? warm lands 5) The world's most populous country is China. 6) Which of the following is not one of the world's largest population concentrations? North America 7) The most populous country in the Southeast Asia region is Indonesia. 8) A country with a high physiological density has a lot of people for every unit of farmland.

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