Vocabulary
The Demographic Transition Model
Population Pyramids
Rates
Wild Card
100
This English Economist argued that population was going to outgrow the food supply
Thomas Malthus
100
The three things (data) that the demographic transition model shows.
Birth Rates, Death Rates, Population
100
The three main cohorts of people that a population pyramid shows.
Kids, Economically Active, Elderly
100
The average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.
Total Fertility Rate
100
The ratio of the number of people per unit of arable land.
What is physiological density?
200
The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can support
Carrying Capacity
200
The main characteristics of the third stage of the DTM. (There should be 3)
Declining Birth Rates, Declining Death Rates, Population growth begins to slow.
200
This shape of a population pyramid—wide at the base and narrow at the top—indicates this demographic condition.
What is a rapidly growing (or expanding) population
200
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in a society
Crude death rate
200
What are the four population concentrations? (must be in order from largest to smallest)
1. East Asia 2. South Asia 3. Europe 4. Southeast Asia
300
This is the scientific study of characteristics of population
Demography
300
The two approaches to reducing birth rates in countries that will lead to stage 3 DTM conditions..
Education and Contraception
300
Why would a country like Qatar have a huge bulge on the left side of their population pyramid?
What is Guest Workers
300
Having a high rate of this means there is a large portion of children younger than 1 dying due to illness, disease or hunger.
Infant mortality
300
What stage in the Epidemiologic Transition would you expect to see the Black Plague?
What is stage 1.
400
The transition of diseases as a country moves through development is known as the....
What is Epidemiological transition model
400
The event that allowed for rapidly declining death rates in the 2nd stage of the DTM.
The Industrial Revolution
400
Seen here... is a population pyramid of Scotland, which is in this stage of the demographic transition model.
Stage 4, (Low birth rates, low death rates, lower natural increase)
400
The total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive.
Crude Birth Rate
400
What would Malthus call the AIDS epidemic in Africa?
What is a natural or positive check
500
This measure compares the number of people supported by a unit of arable land, revealing how efficiently a country uses its farmland.
What is physiological density
500
Name two countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that are in stage 3 of the DTM
Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria
500
Draw and label population pyramids for Stages 2 and 5 of the DTM.
See drawing
500
If a country has a crude birth rate of 37 per 1000 and a death rate of 13 per thousand, what will their rate of natural increase be?
24 per thousand 2.4%
500
What is a country's doubling time?
the projected period it takes for a population to double in size, assuming a constant annual growth rate