Deck 9: The Geography of Population

Question 1

What, ultimately, does the current distribution of population reflect?

A) desire for coastal settlements
B) reliance on agriculture
C) desire for moderate climates
D) reliance on raw materials

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Besides having a large population, what else do the most powerful countries in the world today also typically have?

A) strong culture
B) abundant land
C) strong economy
D) abundant resources

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Where in a hypothetical, developed country would the population with the least economic importance or political power relative to their size be located?

A) rural areas
B) urban areas
C) capital cities
D) coastal cities

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What term describes the long-term redistributions of population as people move to areas of greater economic opportunity?

A) demographic cumulative causation
B) rural-to-urban migration
C) demographic dividend
D) economic migration

Question 5

What is NOT a category of social difference?

A) Age
B) Biological organs
C) Gender
D) Race/ethnicity

Question 6

Where in the world would the lowest female participation rates likely be found?

A) Cambodia
B) United States
C) Afghanistan
D) Zambia

Question 7

Where would you expect to find the lowest average age of a woman giving birth to her first child?

A) Honduras
B) Japan
C) Hong Kong
D) Europe

Question 8

What term describes the way that societies construct and use racial categories in ways that embody political power?

A) socioeconomic categories
B) ethnicity
C) racialized groups
D) segregation

Question 9

What is the best description of an imposed ethnicity?

A) In the Persian Gulf, ethnic identities come from long histories of tribal distinctions.
B) Latinos in the US Census have been given distinct labels from the white majority.
C) In Canada, ethnically and linguistically French persons protect their distinct culture.
D) Kurds have retained their homogeneity and homeland across Syria, Turkey, and Iraq.

Question 10

What is NOT a likely reason for the emergence of a racial/ethnic neighborhood cluster?

A) People often prefer to live with people like themselves.
B) Such areas provide a comfortable, supportive role in a new society.
C) People often are forced to live with people like themselves.
D) Such areas allow minorities to assimilate with majority society easier.

Question 11

What term best describes the notion that social groups will mutually change one another and society as they interact in complex ways over successive generations?

A) assimilation
B) polyculturalism
C) melting pot
D) multicultural society

Question 12

What best describes a daily space-time path?

A) Each person's daily traces through space and time.
B) Daily space-time paths are constrained by fixed pegs.
C) Path prisms vary in their space-time availability ranges.
D) All of these.

Question 13

What is transhumance?

A) Traditional movement of migrating herders between greener sites for pasture.
B) Seasonal, instinctual migratory wild animal herds pursued by hunter-gatherers.
C) Traditional movement of mountain herders from summer to winter pasture.
D) Seasonal migrations of human hunter-gatherer groups between hunting grounds.

Question 14

When is rural to urban migration NOT a permanent move?

A) when it is seasonal and circular
B) when the migrant arrives alone
C) when it is one-way and anytime of the year
D) when the city job is only temporary

Question 15

What example best illustrates the intersection between transhumance and rural to urban migration?

A) Scottish sheepherders appear each spring in town to shear and sell their wool.
B) The Maasai in Eastern Africa pick up tourists in Kinshasa for tours of nearby reserves.
C) Coastal Inuits follow the summer's shift in day length northward to hunt seals.
D) The Bracero Program of 1942 allowed Mexicans entry to work in US as farm laborers.

Question 16

In developed countries with many dense cities, a high percent urban population, and a low percent rural population, what type of internal migration would you expect to be foremost?

A) suburbanization
B) urban-to-urban migration
C) rural-to-urban migration
D) transhumance

Question 17

What was a result of the forced migrations of the slave trade?

A) profits accumulated in Europe and Americas
B) over eight million West and Central Africans died
C) entirely new cultures emerged in the New World
D) all of these

Question 18

What is a remittance?

A) An important commodity for attracting investment capital from overseas.
B) A hypermobile form of investment capital that flows between wealthy countries.
C) A form of capital that economic migrants send back to their home country.
D) An aggregate measure of all the money a country earns from its economic migrants.

Question 19

What is NOT one of the characteristics of a gateway city?

A) destination of international migrants
B) high percentage of foreign-born residents
C) political and economic capital of a country
D) site of diasporic communities and hybrid identities

Question 20

What model of population movement represents the comparative assessment of characteristics between origin and destination that often characterizes the decision-making of voluntary migrants?

A) Ravenstein
B) Gravity
C) Lee's Push-Pull
D) Zelinsky