Vocabulary
The Demographic Transition Model
Population Pyramids
Rates
Migration
100
This is the scientific study of characteristics of population
Demography
100
The three things (data) that the demographic transition model (DTM) shows.
Birth Rates, Death Rates, and Population or NIR
100
The three "groups" of people that a population pyramid shows.
Youth, Adults, Elderly
100
The average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.
Total Fertility Rate
100
Better job opportunities and temperate climate are examples of...
Pull factors
200
The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can support
Carrying Capacity
200
The 3 main characteristics of the third stage of the DTM.
Declining Birth Rates, Declining Death Rates, Population growth begins to slow.
200
Concaved sides (traditional pyramid) on a population pyramid will tell you this about a country….
High death rate
200
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in a society
Crude death rate
200
Running out of money and border walls are examples of...
Intervening obstacles
300
A portion of earth's surface occupied permanently by human settlement.
Ecumene
300
The DTM is not the most accurate depiction of population change because it does not account for...
Migration
300
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)
300
The ratio comparing those who are too young or too old to work compared to the economically active.
Dependency ratio
300
A rural person moving to a small town, then to a larger city, and finally to a major metropolitan area
Step migration
400
This English economist that argued that population will increase geometrically rather than arithmetically.
Thomas Malthus
400
The two approaches to reducing birth rates in countries that will lead to stage 3 DTM conditions..
Education and Contraception
400
This population pyramid shows an anomaly, the reason for this strange structure is...
This is a college town, so many of the residents are young adults.
400
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
400
Chain migration results in the growth of ________ in major cities
Ethnic enclaves
500
The formula for the demographic equation (total population growth)
(Births - Deaths) + (Immigration - Emigration) = Population
500
Two countries that are currently in stage 4 of the DTM (Zero population growth or declining populations)
Teacher's Choice
500
What stage of the pop pyramid is this in:
Stage 3
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?
2.4 (24 per thousand)
500
Identify three laws of Ravenstein's Laws of Migration
Most migrants travel short distances
Rural people are more likely to migrate than urban people
Most migration is step migration
Long distance migrants are usually young men
Long-distance migrants usually move to cities
Most migration is for economic reasons