Vocabulary
The Demographic Transition Model
Population Pyramids
Rates
Odds and Ends
Migration
100
This is the scientific study of characteristics of population
Demography
100
The three things (data) that the demographic transition model shows.
Birth Rates, Death Rates, Population
100

The three "groups" of people that a population pyramid shows.

Youth, Working Age, Elderly
100
The average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.
Total Fertility Rate
100
China instituted this policy in hopes of controlling an out of control population.
One child policy
100

Universal health care, availability of jobs, peaceful, good climate

Pull Factors

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)

Stable/slow decline of Birth Rates, Declining Death Rates, Population growth begins to slow.

200

This pyramid shows this type of growth

Rapid Growth

Bonus: what stage of the DTM is this country?

200
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in a society
Crude death rate
200

Three of the top five most populated countries in the world

China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil

200
Conflict, economically struggling, oppressive government

Push Factors

300

The total population divided by the land area

Arithmetic Density

300
The two revolutions that allowed for rapidly declining death rates in the 2nd stage of the DTM.
The Medical Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
300

Seen here... is a population pyramid of Scotland, which is in this stage of the demographic transition model.

Stage 3, (Low birth rates, low death rates, lower natural increase)

300

The total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive.

Crude Birth Rate

300
The ratio comparing those who are too young or too old to work compared to the economically active.
dependency ratio
300

Someone who is fleeing from armed conflict and travels to a country for safety is seeking this

Asylum

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 pyramid shows this type of growth.

Negative growth

Bonus - what stage of the DTM is this country?

400

Better hygiene and sanitation practices would lead to a decrease in this rate

Death Rate

400
In the Epidemiological Transition, this is the "stage of pestilence and famine"
Stage 1
400

Cousin Fred said that this place was great to live. 

Chain Migration or Familial Migration

500

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

500

The most likely cause of death in a country that is in Stage 4 or 5

Degenerative diseases due to old age and lifestyle

500

This population pyramid shows which phenomenon

Guest Workers or Gender Imbalance

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
500

Countries that have a relatively young population age structure would be found in this type of developed country

Less Developed Countries

500

This was the most prominent type of migration in the 19th and 20th centuries

Rural to Urban

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