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The Demographic Transition Model (College Board AP® Human Geography): Exam Questions

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11 mark

Who developed the Demographic Transition Model?

  • Warren Thompson 

  • John Snow

  • Alexander Fleming

  • Ronald Ross

  • Abdel Omran

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21 mark

Which 3 categories does the Demographic Transition Model show?

  • Birth rate, Infant mortality rate and life expectancy 

  • Famines, pandemics and degenerative disease

  • Life expectancy, disease and total population

  • Birth rate, Death Rate and Total Population 

  • Birth rate, Death Rate and population doubling 

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31 mark

In stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model, what pattern are you most likely to see?

  • Birth rates remain high, death rates begin to fall rapidly, and population increase begins to rise at speed

  • Birth rate and death rate are high, and population increase is relatively stable or slowly rising

  • Birth rate and death rate are low, and population increase continues to fall until stabilising.

  • Birth rate begins to fall, the death rate begins to level out and population increase begins to slow down.

  • Very low birth rates, low death rates, and decreasing population - the future of this is ambiguous. 

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41 mark

Which country is said to be in Stage 5 of the Demographic Transition Model? 

  • China

  • United States

  • Japan

  • Somalia

  • South Africa

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51 mark

The ‘Late Expanding’ stage is which state of the Demographic Transition Model?

  • Stage 3

  • Stage 1

  • Stage 5

  • Stage 4

  • Stage 2

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61 mark

What category of population change does the Demographic Transition Model not show? 

  • Birth Rate

  • Death Rate

  • Total Population

  • Natural increase

  • Life expectancy

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71 mark

Which of the following is an example of Age 2 of the Epidemiological Transition

  • The rise of affluent diseases like cancer.

  • The re-emergence of pandemics due to disease resistance or travel diffusion.

  • John Snow’s discovery of the cause of a cholera outbreak in London led to foundational knowledge of sanitation practices.

  • A decline in cardiovascular diseases due to healthcare and dietary improvements. 

  • The fatal Black Death pandemic spread around Europe from rats.

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81 mark

 Non-communicable diseases are

  • Diseases passed from human to human, like measles.

  • Diseases passed from animals to humans

  • Diseases that cannot be passed between humans, like heart disease.

  • Diseases that spread around the world at a certain time.

  • Diseases originating from water.

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91 mark

The COVID-19 outbreak could be placed into which Era of the Epidemiological Transition? 

  • Age 5

  • Age 3

  • Age 2

  • Age 1

  • Stage 5

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101 mark

The diffusion of medical technologies into Africa, Asia and Latin America is known as 

  • The Agricultural Revolution

  • The Technological Revolution

  • The Medical Revolution

  • The Industrial Revolution 

  • The Epidemiological Transition

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111 mark

Who’s ideas are connected to the Epidemiological Transition Model?

  • Abdel Omran

  • Warren Thompson

  • John Snow

  • Alexander Fleming

  • Ronald Ross

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