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

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 2” 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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Push and pull factors

2

Epidemiological transition

3

Dependency ratio

4

Crude birth and death rate

5

Anti-natalist and pro-natalist policies

6

Rate of natural increase

7

Guest worker programs

8

Criticisms of the demographic transition model

9

Voluntary vs forced migration

10

Arithmetic, physiological and agricultural density

11

Population pyramid

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Total fertility rate

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Demographic transition model

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Ravenstein's laws of migration

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Malthusian theory

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Remittances

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.