Matthew Baxter

World Studies Hybrid

Mr. Bienkowski
Hour 1
Unit 2 Vocab Quiz 10 Points
Fill in the blank
1) A person who has to leave his or her country to find safety:
_________
2) The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64,
compares to the number of people active in the labor force:
________
3) A large number of people relatively close to each other:
__________
4) The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as
the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate: __________
5) Why are families are less likely to move than young adults (A
40 year old with 2 kids and a spouse is less likely to move
than a 23 year old living on their own)? ________

Matching
6) Internally displaced person ___
7) Doubling time ___
8) Distance decay ___
9) Age distribution ___
10) Child mortality rate ___
a.someone who is forced to leave his or her home and community but
who remains in the same country
b.The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a
constant rate of natural increase.
c.a model used in population geography that describes the ages and
number of males and females within a given population; also called a
population pyramid
d.The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a
phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.
e.A figure that describes the number of children that die between the
first and fifth years of their lives in a given population

Multiple Choice
a.
b.
c.
d.

11)
Large-scale emigration by talented people.
Sex ratio
Colonization
Brain drain
Chain migration

e.
f.
g.
h.

12) The number of deaths per year per 1,000 people.

Crude death rate
Brain drain
Crude birth rate
Dependency ratio

a.
b.
c.
d.

13)
Policies that discourage an increase in birth rate
Activity space
Pro-natalist policies
Migration patterns
Anti-natalist policies

a.
b.
c.
d.

14)
A population group unified by a specific common
characteristic, such as age, and subsequently treated as a
statistical unit.
S-curve
Ecumene
J-curve
Cohort

a.
b.
c.
d.

15)
Permanent movement within a particular country.
Step migration
Chain migration
Forced migration
Internal migration

True/False
1) Push-pull factors Eighteenth-century English intellectual who
warned that population growth threatened future generations
because, in his view, population growth would always outstrip
increases in agricultural production. _______
2) Population pyramid Number of individuals per unit area.
_______
3) Total fertility rate The number of children born to an average
woman in a population during her entire reproductive life.

_______
4) Population density A bar graph representing the distribution of
population by age and sex. _______
5) Colonization Migration of people to a specific location because
relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated
there. _______