AP Population Review
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| Carrying capacity is | a reflection of cultural subduction
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| The systematic study of human population is called | demography
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| The first stage of the demographic transition is marked by | high birth rates, high but fluctuating death rates
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| Zero population growth (ZPG) | refers to an exact equation of births and deaths
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| The theory of the demographic transition holds that | both birth and death rates decrease with urbanization
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| One check to rapid population increase formerly available to European countries but not a possibility in today's developing societies was | mass migration
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| During the last decade of the 20th century, world population increased each year by about | 84 million.
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| The doubling time for world population at recent rates of increase is about | 50 years
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| When the average fertility rate of a population drops to the replacement level | population continues to grow for a generation or more
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| The continent with the highest total fertility rates overall is | Africa
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| The Malthusian theory is based on what assumptions? | Population tends to increase more rapidly than do the food supplies to support that population
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| The portions of the earth's surface permanently inhabited by humans make up the | ecumene.
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| Some 90% of the world's population resides on less than what percent of its land area? | 20
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| A broad-based population pyramid suggests that a country is in what stage of the demographic transition? | second
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| The crude death rate for wealthy Western Europe is much higher than that for Central America because | Western Europe has a higher proportion of old people
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| What are the characteristics of a national population that one can tell from its population pyramid? | age structure, sex structure, dependency ratio
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| An expression of population pressure exerted on agricultural land is | physiological density
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| Population projections have often been inaccurate in the past and likely will be inaccurate in the future because | projections are based on assumptions about trends that may not be supported by events
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| General worldwide declines of crude death rates | do not apply to pregnancy-related deaths
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| Numerically, the smallest of the major world population concentrations is that of | the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.
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| Rapid increases in life expectancy are characteristic of which stage of the demographic transition? | second
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| What is the term used to describe a population group unified by an identifying characteristic | cohort
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