AP®︎ Human Geography: Unit 2 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Unit 2 of AP Human Geography – Population and Migration Patterns and Processes.
Questions List
Unit 2 (All Topics)
Question 1 Topic 2.1Easy
This question tests the following: PSO-2.A
What is the approximate current global population?
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Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes
This unit explores population distribution, demographic trends, migration patterns, and their causes and effects on societies and environments.
Topic 2.1: Population Distribution
Learning Objective: PSO-2.A
Identify the factors that influence the distribution of human populations at different scales.
Essential Knowledge: PSO-2.A.1
Physical factors (e.g., climate, landforms, water bodies) and human factors (e.g., culture, economics, history, politics) influence the distribution of population.
Essential Knowledge: PSO-2.A.2
Factors that illustrate patterns of population distribution vary according to the scale of analysis.
Learning Objective: PSO-2.B
Define methods geographers use to calculate population density.
Essential Knowledge: PSO-2.B.1
The three methods for calculating population density are arithmetic, physiological, and agricultural.
Learning Objective: PSO-2.C
Explain the differences between and the impact of methods used to calculate population density.
Essential Knowledge: PSO-2.C.1
The method used to calculate population density reveals different information about the pressure the population exerts on the land.
Topic 2.2: Consequences of Population Distribution
Learning Objective: PSO-2.D
Explain how population distribution and density affect society and the environment.
Essential Knowledge: PSO-2.D.1
Population distribution and density affect political, economic, and social processes, including the provision of services such as medical care.
Essential Knowledge: PSO-2.D.2
Population distribution and density affect the environment and natural resources; this is known as carrying capacity.
Topic 2.3: Population Composition
Learning Objective: PSO-2.E
Describe elements of population composition used by geographers.
Essential Knowledge: PSO-2.E.1
Patterns of age structure and sex ratio vary across different regions and may be mapped and analyzed at different scales.
Learning Objective: PSO-2.F
Explain ways that geographers depict and analyze population composition.
Essential Knowledge: PSO-2.F.1
Population pyramids are used to assess population growth and decline and to predict markets for goods and services.
Topic 2.4: Population Dynamics
Learning Objective: IMP-2.A
Explain factors that account for contemporary and historical trends in population growth and decline.
Essential Knowledge: IMP-2.A.1
Demographic factors that determine a population’s growth and decline are fertility, mortality, and migration.
Essential Knowledge: IMP-2.A.2
Geographers use the rate of natural increase and population-doubling time to explain population growth and decline.
Essential Knowledge: IMP-2.A.3
Social, cultural, political, and economic factors influence fertility, mortality, and migration rates.
Topic 2.5: The Demographic Transition Model
Learning Objective: IMP-2.B
Explain theories of population growth and decline.
Essential Knowledge: IMP-2.B.1
The demographic transition model can be used to explain population change over time.
Essential Knowledge: IMP-2.B.2
The epidemiological transition explains causes of changing death rates.
Topic 2.6: Malthusian Theory
Learning Objective: IMP-2.B
Explain theories of population growth and decline.
Essential Knowledge: IMP-2.B.3
Malthusian theory and its critiques are used to analyze population change and its consequences.
Topic 2.7: Population Policies
Learning Objective: SPS-2.A
Explain the intent and effects of various population and immigration policies on population size and composition.
Essential Knowledge: SPS-2.A.1
Types of population policies include those that promote or discourage population growth, such as pronatalist, antinatalist, and immigration policies.
Topic 2.8: Women and Demographic Change
Learning Objective: SPS-2.B
Explain how the changing role of females has demographic consequences in different parts of the world.
Essential Knowledge: SPS-2.B.1
Changing social values and access to education, employment, health care, and contraception have reduced fertility rates in most parts of the world.
Essential Knowledge: SPS-2.B.2
Changing social, economic, and political roles for females have influenced patterns of fertility, mortality, and migration, as illustrated by Ravenstein's laws of migration.
Topic 2.9: Aging Populations
Learning Objective: SPS-2.C
Explain the causes and consequences of an aging population.
Essential Knowledge: SPS-2.C.1
Population aging is determined by birth and death rates and life expectancy.
Essential Knowledge: SPS-2.C.2
An aging population has political, social, and economic consequences, including the dependency ratio.
Topic 2.10: Causes of Migration
Learning Objective: IMP-2.C
Explain how different causal factors encourage migration.
Essential Knowledge: IMP-2.C.1
Migration is commonly divided into push factors and pull factors.
Essential Knowledge: IMP-2.C.2
Push/pull factors and intervening opportunities/obstacles can be cultural, demographic, economic, environmental, or political.
Topic 2.11: Forced and Voluntary Migration
Learning Objective: IMP-2.D
Describe types of forced and voluntary migration.
Essential Knowledge: IMP-2.D.1
Forced migrations include slavery and events that produce refugees, internally displaced persons, and asylum seekers.
Essential Knowledge: IMP-2.D.2
Types of voluntary migrations include transnational, transhumance, internal, chain, step, guest worker, and rural-to-urban.
Topic 2.12: Effects of Migration
Learning Objective: IMP-2.E
Explain historical and contemporary geographic effects of migration.
Essential Knowledge: IMP-2.E.1
Migration has political, economic, and cultural effects.
