Geography Ch 1 Set 2 Question Preview (ID: 52331)

a) includes population increases from immigration.

b) is positive if the death rate is higher than the birth rate.

c) is unrelated to its birth and death rates.

d) is calculated as its birth rate minus its death rate.

a) tends to increase as its economy improves.

b) is defined as the number of live births per 1,000 people in a year.

c) is often lower than its death rate.

d) tends to decrease as it becomes more rural.

a) lives in polar regions.

b) lives in Asia.

c) travels I-4 each morning and afternoon.

d) lives in one of ten cities.

a) is constant over time.

b) is an aggregation of weather observations.

c) taken over time, makes up weather.

d) has not changed since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

a) rose sharply until about 1950, when it began falling.

b) is between seven and eight billion people.

c) is evenly distributed across the continents.

d) is mostly rural in developed countries.

a) describes changes in elevation of the Earth's surface.

b) tells us which layers of the Earth are on top of others.

c) is a method of creating spinning children's toys.

d) is similar to typography.

a) is a method of creating dinnerware.

b) is a theory that the surface of the Earth is solid and in one piece.

c) explains how the continents move and why we have earthquakes and volcanoes.

d) explains what happened to the dinosaurs.

a) generally indicate the same countries as being developed or developing.

b) usually point in opposite directions as to whether a country is developed or not.

c) are completely uncorrelated.

d) are not real.

a) divides the world into a wealthy economic north and a poor economic south.

b) separates nations based on whether they are a former British colony.

c) shows that countries with high levels of natural resources tend to have more economic development than those without.

d) is the shortest path for sailing around the world.

a) has been slowly falling since the end of WWII.

b) has risen sharply since the early 1900s.

c) has remained steady over the last 150 years.

d) has erratically risen and fallen over the last few decades.

a) tend to rely heavily on secondary economic activities.

b) tend to have a varied economy, not favoring one economic sector over another.

c) tend to rely heavily on primary economic activities.

d) tend to not have economies of any sort.

a) its population will remain steady.

b) its population will double.

c) its population will divide in two.

d) we know nothing about what its population will do.

a) China.

b) India.

c) Niger.

d) Brazil.

a) describes a country's ethnic and racial development.

b) tells us about the political development of a culture.

c) contemplates that birth rates will always increase.

d) describes how birth and death rates change and impact a country's population pyramid.

a) is larger than the generation that came before it and the one that came after it.

b) is larger than the one that came before it, but smaller than the one that came after it.

c) is smaller than the one that came before it, but larger than the one that came after it.

d) is smaller than the generation that came before it and the one that came after it.