Population Quiz
Please write on a separate sheet of paper.
For Questions 1-10, write the population vocabulary that best fits.
1. The ability of an area’s resources to support its population. Carrying capacity
2. Three characteristics an area of early settlement or dense population has in common.
Water, soil (arable land), and good climate
3. Average number of babies per woman. Fertility rate
4. The number of babies that die within their first year. Infant mortality rate
5. Statistics about a population/people. Demographics
6. A statistic that will tell you how many people there are per square mile. Population
density
7. The pattern of settlement across the world or across a country. Population distribution
12. Which country above has the most rapid population growth? Kenya Support your
answer.
8. Something that occurs when birthrates equal death rates. Zero population growth
13. Will the pyramids above tell you total population of a country? No
9. Population increase excluding immigration. Natural rate of increase
14. Give an example of how the United States population pyramid shows its history. Baby
10. Give at least two reasons fertility rates drop in countries that are becoming more
developed. Urbanization (moving from rural to urban areas), education and
Boomers, growth of population after men come home from WWII
15. Give an example of an issue a policy maker in Germany would need to consider for
opportunities for women, access/acceptance to contraception/family planning,
the future according to the information in the pyramid? There will be fewer pre-
government regulation (China)
reproductive age people and an increasing amount of post-reproductive age
people. Attention will probably swing towards budgetary concerns regarding social
security and strain on the economy.
16. What are the top five countries in world population? (In order…) 1) China, 2) India,
3)United States, 4)Indonesia, 5) Brazil
17. Explain the trend in world population growth from the view of the world as a whole.
Give evidence. There has been relative slow population growth in the world’s history
until industrialization in the late 1800s, from this point there has been rapid population
growth.
18. How would your answer for #17 change if population growth or trends are explained
from the perspective of regions or specific countries? Only certain regions of the world
11. What concepts of population growth might this cartoon illustrate? Overpopulation
What vocabulary could you apply to the cartoon? Carrying capacity, population
density, sustainability, overcrowding What do you think is the cartoonist’s point of view
on population? Sarcastic; believes we are overpopulated, even if people deny it.
Support your answer with evidence from the cartoon.
are experiencing accelerated population growth, for example, developing countries
in South East Asia and Africa. Europe and Japan are experiencing negative
population growth.