Topic 8: Human Populations
15 review questions with answers for Topic 8: Human Populations, marked SL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Number of live births per 1,000 people per year?
- Crude birth rateRight answer
- Crude death rate
- Doubling time
- Age–sex pyramid
All 15 questions and answers
Number of live births per 1,000 people per year?
Answer: Crude birth rate
Number of deaths per 1,000 people per year?
Answer: Crude death rate
Average number of births per woman of childbearing age?
Answer: Total fertility rate
Birth rate minus death rate; expressed as a percentage or per 1,000?
Answer: Natural increase rate
Number of years a population takes to grow to twice its size at its current growth rate, approximately 70 ÷ growth rate (%)?
Answer: Doubling time
A diagram showing the age and sex structure of a population?
Answer: Age–sex pyramid
Model of how a country's birth and death rates, and so its population growth, change through five stages over time as it develops?
Answer: Demographic transition model (DTM)
Government measures that aim to lower birth rates, such as China's former one-child policy?
Answer: Anti-natalist policies
A built-up area with high population density, buildings and infrastructure?
Answer: Urban area
The population shift from rural to urban areas?
Answer: Urbanization
Movement of people from dense central urban areas to lower-density peripheral areas?
Answer: Suburbanization
Uncontrolled, low-density, car-dependent spread of a city's built-up land into the surrounding countryside?
Answer: Urban sprawl
Pollutants emitted directly from a source (e.g. CO and NO from vehicle exhausts, SO₂ from burning coal)?
Answer: Primary pollutants
Fine airborne particles small enough to penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream?
Answer: PM2.5
Precipitation with low pH caused by SO₂ and NOx reacting with water vapour to form sulfuric and nitric acids?
Answer: Acid rain
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options are other answers from the same set.