Population and Migration Exam Prep Chapter 11

Chapter 11

Population and Migration

Multiple-Choice

1. The maximum number of humans or animals that can survive within a given area is known as
   1. carrying capacity.
   2. Malthusian thought.
   3. destruction line.
   4. All of the above

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The _____________ rate is the level at which population remains stable.
   1. sustainable
   2. replacement
   3. stable
   4. established

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT a reason behind Europe’s smaller population?
   1. Geography and climate
   2. Ability to conquer, colonize, and settle other countries
   3. The smaller population it started off with
   4. Secular background

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. _____________ live outside their country, as they are unable to return because of persecution.
   1. Migrants
   2. Displaced people
   3. Refugees
   4. Immigrants

Topic/Concept: Global Migration

11.2: Recall the types, causes, and gender roles of global migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Refugees who try to gain permanent residence in the country to which they fled are known as
   1. protection seekers.
   2. asylum seekers.
   3. citizenship seekers.
   4. None of the above

Topic/Concept: Global Migration

11.2: Recall the types, causes, and gender roles of global migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. A growing dependency on immigrant workers is occurring in many countries because of
   1. food insecurity.
   2. the Bretton Woods System.
   3. aging populations.
   4. politically liberal leadership.

Topic/Concept: Social, Economic, and Political Implications of Migration

11.6: Examine the social, economic, and political implications of migration on the sending and receiving countries

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The dominant pattern of migration in both rich and poor countries is
   1. urban to rural.
   2. rural to rural.
   3. urban to urban.
   4. rural to urban.

Topic/Concept: Global Migration

11.2: Recall the types, causes, and gender roles of global migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The movement of people from their native country to another country before arriving in the specific country they want to migrate to is known as __________ migration.
   1. transit
   2. seasonal
   3. return
   4. forced

Topic/Concept: Global Migration

11.2: Recall the types, causes, and gender roles of global migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. An example of a push factor is
   1. higher wages.
   2. rapid population growth.
   3. family reunification.
   4. political freedom.

Topic/Concept: Push Factors

11.3: Identify the push factors of migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. An example of a pull factor is
   1. economic opportunities.
   2. rapid population growth.
   3. globalization.
   4. political instability.

Topic/Concept: Pull Factors

11.4: Identify the pull factors of migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT a reason behind migration encouraged by the government?
   1. The goal of cultural homogeneity
   2. The achievement of foreign policy objectives
   3. The containment of dissidents of the government
   4. The subduing of a region

Topic/Concept: Push Factors

11.3: Identify the push factors of migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. _____________ are cities that are inhabited by enough migrants to make them have an international scope and appeal.
   1. International zones
   2. Global cities
   3. Multicultural cities
   4. Diasporas

Topic/Concept: Pull Factors

11.4: Identify the pull factors of migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The _____________ program established agreements between the United States and Mexico in order to facilitate the temporary migration of Mexican workers.
   1. bracero
   2. Mexican American
   3. trabajador
   4. migrant

Topic/Concept: Case Studies

11.5: Illustrate how migration and population issues are important components of human, national, and global security

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The deportation of hundreds of thousands of Mexican migrants was known as
   1. the Bay of Pigs.
   2. Operation Wetback.
   3. the refusal program.
   4. the Bracero Program.

Topic/Concept: Case Studies

11.5: Illustrate how migration and population issues are important components of human, national, and global security

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. _____________ is the French policy that allows many people from its colonies to become residents of France.
   1. Freedom of movement
   2. Retribution policy
   3. The policy of assimilation
   4. Gastarbeiter Rotation System

Topic/Concept: Case Studies

11.5: Illustrate how migration and population issues are important components of human, national, and global security

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Demographic disparities among countries generally influence the distribution of economic, military, and political power among states.

Topic/Concept: Introduction

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Migration has accompanied each wave of globalization.

Topic/Concept: Introduction

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The main concern for population growth is that the world’s population has been decreasing.

Explanation: Population growth threatens the earth’s carrying capacity.

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Thomas Malthus argued that because population increases by a geometrical ratio and food supplies increase by an arithmetical ratio, the world would have high rates of population growth and suffer from poverty and starvation.

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Population pressures often result in military conflict.

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Most developing countries have low population growth rates, and generally have little differences in income.

Explanation: They have high population growth rates, and have vast differences in income.

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Encouraging immigration would help countries with aging populations.

Topic/Concept: Push Factors

11.3: Identify the push factors of migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Women are more likely than men to migrate under ordinary circumstances.

Explanation: Men are more likely to migrate than women.

Topic/Concept: Global Migration

11.2: Recall the types, causes, and gender roles of global migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Push factors are negative developments and circumstances that motivate or force people to leave their homes.

Topic/Concept: Global Migration

11.2: Recall the types, causes, and gender roles of global migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. As large numbers of workers born during the baby boom of 1945–1965 retire, rich countries are confronting a sharp decline in the working-age population.

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

Fill in the Blank

1. The rate at which the population remains relatively stable is the _______________.

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. A _____________ is a community of people living outside their original or ancestral country.

Topic/Concept: Pull Factors

11.4: Identify the pull factors of migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. __________________ refers to the maximum number of humans or animals a given area can support without creating irreversible destruction to the environment.

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Refugees attempting to obtain permanent residence in the country to which they fled are called __________________.

Topic/Concept: Global Migration

11.2: Recall the types, causes, and gender roles of global migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Europe is faced with the spread of ___________________, that is, patterns of childbearing that would eventually result in indefinite population decline.

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. ____________________ is the involuntary movement of people, often due to a government initiative.

Topic/Concept: Global Migration

11.2: Recall the types, causes, and gender roles of global migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Some countries, including the United States, favor selective ___________________

(i.e., the military invasion of a country) to prevent or diminish human rights abuses that drive people away from their homes.

Topic/Concept: Push Factors

11.3: Identify the push factors of migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. People sometimes are pushed to migrate from their countries by ______________________, which arise when governments allow more land to be taken by large agro-export companies to create megafarms.

Topic/Concept: Push Factors

11.3: Identify the push factors of migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The ______________ was designed to preserve the ethnic or national composition of the United States as it was in 1920.

Topic/Concept: Case Studies

11.5: Illustrate how migration and population issues are important components of human, national, and global security

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. ____________________ are differentiated from refugees only by the fact that they remain within the boundaries of their country.

Topic/Concept: Global Migration

11.2: Recall the types, causes, and gender roles of global migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Matching

Answers to matching:

1) C) immigrant

2) B) refugee

3) D) migrant

4) E) brain drain

5) A) transit migration

Essay Questions

1. How will the global aging and pensions problems affect you?

Topic/Concept: Case Study

Skill Level: Application

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. What are some of the causes, as well as negative consequences, of high and low population growth rates?

Topic/Concept: Population

11.1: Evaluate the causes as well as negative consequences of high and low population growth rates

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. In what way do remittances help strengthen the ties between economies and people? Do you think remittances are a positive thing?

Topic/Concept: Social, Economic, and Political Implications of Migration

11.6: Examine the social, economic, and political implications of migration on the sending and receiving countries

Skill Level: Evaluation

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Can you identify some of the push and pull factors that traditionally lead to increased regional and global migration?

Topic/Concept: Global Migration

11.2: Recall the types, causes, and gender roles of global migration

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Discuss the economic, political, and social implications of migration for both sending and receiving countries.

Topic/Concept: Social, Economic, and Political Implications of Migration

11.6: Examine the social, economic, and political implications of migration on the sending and receiving countries

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate