AP Human Geography Unit 2 & 3
Questions and Answers (Top Grade
Assured) 2026 Update
Demography - Correct Answers ✅scientific study of
population characteristics.
Overpopulation - Correct Answers ✅number of people in
an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support
life at a decent standard of living.
Census - Correct Answers ✅complete enumeration of a
population.
Ecumene - Correct Answers ✅portion of Earth's surface
occupied by permanent human settlement.
Arithmetic density - Correct Answers ✅total number of
people divided by the total land area
Physiological density - Correct Answers ✅number of
people per unit of area of arable land, divide population by
arable land area
Agricultural density - Correct Answers ✅ratio of the
number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for
agriculture, divide population of farmers by arable land
,AP Human Geography Unit 2 & 3
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Crude birth rate - Correct Answers ✅total number of live
births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society.
Crude death rate - Correct Answers ✅total number of
deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society.
Natural increase rate (NIR) - Correct Answers ✅percentage
growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth
rate minus the crude death rate.
Doubling time - Correct Answers ✅number of years
needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of
natural increase.
Total fertility rate - Correct Answers ✅average number of
children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
(world: 2.5) 2.1
Population pyramid - Correct Answers ✅bar graph
representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
Dependency ratio - Correct Answers ✅number of people
under the age of 15 and over the age 64, compared to the
number of people active in the labor force
, AP Human Geography Unit 2 & 3
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Sex ratio - Correct Answers ✅number of males per 100
females in a population
Demographic transition - Correct Answers ✅process of
change in a society's population from a condition of high
crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase
to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of
natural increase, and a higher total population.
Industrial revolution - Correct Answers ✅series of
improvements in industrial technology that transformed the
process of manufacturing goods.
Medical revolution - Correct Answers ✅Medical technology
invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the
poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved
medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional
causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people
to live longer and healthier lives.
Zero population growth - Correct Answers ✅decline in the
total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate
equals zero.
Epidemiologic transition - Correct Answers ✅Distinctive
causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.
Questions and Answers (Top Grade
Assured) 2026 Update
Demography - Correct Answers ✅scientific study of
population characteristics.
Overpopulation - Correct Answers ✅number of people in
an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support
life at a decent standard of living.
Census - Correct Answers ✅complete enumeration of a
population.
Ecumene - Correct Answers ✅portion of Earth's surface
occupied by permanent human settlement.
Arithmetic density - Correct Answers ✅total number of
people divided by the total land area
Physiological density - Correct Answers ✅number of
people per unit of area of arable land, divide population by
arable land area
Agricultural density - Correct Answers ✅ratio of the
number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for
agriculture, divide population of farmers by arable land
,AP Human Geography Unit 2 & 3
Questions and Answers (Top Grade
Assured) 2026 Update
Crude birth rate - Correct Answers ✅total number of live
births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society.
Crude death rate - Correct Answers ✅total number of
deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society.
Natural increase rate (NIR) - Correct Answers ✅percentage
growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth
rate minus the crude death rate.
Doubling time - Correct Answers ✅number of years
needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of
natural increase.
Total fertility rate - Correct Answers ✅average number of
children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
(world: 2.5) 2.1
Population pyramid - Correct Answers ✅bar graph
representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
Dependency ratio - Correct Answers ✅number of people
under the age of 15 and over the age 64, compared to the
number of people active in the labor force
, AP Human Geography Unit 2 & 3
Questions and Answers (Top Grade
Assured) 2026 Update
Sex ratio - Correct Answers ✅number of males per 100
females in a population
Demographic transition - Correct Answers ✅process of
change in a society's population from a condition of high
crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase
to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of
natural increase, and a higher total population.
Industrial revolution - Correct Answers ✅series of
improvements in industrial technology that transformed the
process of manufacturing goods.
Medical revolution - Correct Answers ✅Medical technology
invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the
poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved
medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional
causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people
to live longer and healthier lives.
Zero population growth - Correct Answers ✅decline in the
total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate
equals zero.
Epidemiologic transition - Correct Answers ✅Distinctive
causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition.
