Unit 2: Population & Migration
Human Geo · Unit 2 · Paper 1

Population & Migration unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 18 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 2, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 34 min 31 points0/17 attempted
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Criticisms of the demographic transition model

2

Remittances

3

Carrying capacity

4

Voluntary vs forced migration

5

Guest worker programs

6

Demographic transition model

7

Total fertility rate

8

Push and pull factors

9

Epidemiological transition

10

Ravenstein's laws of migration

11

Crude birth and death rate

12

Dependency ratio

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Chain migration

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Malthusian theory

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Arithmetic, physiological and agricultural density

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Rate of natural increase

3 pts

Free response

7 pts

Population geographers use the demographic transition model to compare countries at different stages of development. (A) Define the rate of natural increase. (B) Describe the relationship between crude birth rates and crude death rates in Stage 2 of the demographic transition model. (C) Explain why countries in Stage 2 typically experience the highest rates of population growth. (D) Using a specific example, explain one economic challenge faced by a country in Stage 5 of the model. (E) Explain how demographic momentum can cause a population to continue growing after fertility reaches replacement level. (F) Describe one antinatalist policy a government has adopted and one consequence of that policy. (G) Explain one limitation of using the demographic transition model to predict the future of a country in the periphery.