Exam Questions And CORRECT Answers
Agricultural Population Density - CORRECT ANSWER - Number of Farmers divided by
the arable land
Arable Land - CORRECT ANSWER - Land suitable for farming/agriculture
Physiological Population Density - CORRECT ANSWER - Population of a region / arable
(farmable) land
Arithmetic Population Density - CORRECT ANSWER - Population of a region divided by
total land area.
Baby Boom - CORRECT ANSWER - Temporary marked increase in the birth rate
Census - CORRECT ANSWER - A complete count of of a population
Child Mortality Rate - CORRECT ANSWER - Total number of child deaths per 1,000 live
births
Crude Birth Rate - CORRECT ANSWER - Total number of live births in a year for every
1,000 people in the society
Crude Death Rate - CORRECT ANSWER - Total number of deaths per 1,000 people in a
society
Dependency Ratio - CORRECT ANSWER - Number of people too young or too old to
work compared to workers
, More Developed Country (MDC) - CORRECT ANSWER - Also known as a relatively
developed country or a developed country, country that has progressed further along the
development continuum
Doubling Time - CORRECT ANSWER - Number of years needed to double the
population
Ecumeme - CORRECT ANSWER - The areas of earth occupied by human settlement
Epidemiological Transition Model - CORRECT ANSWER - The theory that says that
there is a distinct cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition model. It can help
explain how a country's population changes so dramatically.
Industrial Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER - Time during the 19th century, major
improvements in manufacturing goals and delivering them to market
Infant Mortality Rates - CORRECT ANSWER - the number of infant deaths (under age 1)
per 1000 live births
Less Developed Countries (LDC) - CORRECT ANSWER - Non-industrialized/poor
countries.
Stage two, early three
Life Expectancy - CORRECT ANSWER - Average number of years an infant can expect
to live
Thomas Malthus - CORRECT ANSWER - An English economist who was one of the first
to argue that the world's population increase was far outrunning the development of food
production