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 shows.
Birth Rates, Death Rates, Population
100
The three "groups" of people that a population pyramid shows.
Kiddos, Economically Active, Oldies
100
The average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.
Total Fertility Rate
100
This is the term for migration out of a country
What is emigration?
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
Concave sides on a population pyramid will tell you this about a country….
That there is a high death rate
200
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in a society
Crude death rate
200
Something that forces someone to migrate from one location to a new one is...
Push Factor
300
When something beneficial causes someone to move to a new location.
Pull Factor
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 4, (Low birth rates, low death rates, lower natural increase)
300
The total number if live births in a year for every 1000 people alive.
Crude Birth Rate
300
When people move to areas with larger populations and more things to do is known as
Gravity Model of Migration
400
This english economist that argued that population will increase geometrically rather than arithmetically. (Mathusian Theory)
Thomas Malthus
400
The two approaches to reducing birth rates in countries that will lead to stage 3 DTM conditions..
Education and Contraception
400
Why would a country like Qatar have a huge bulge on the left side of their population pyramid?
What is Guest Workers
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
In the early 21st century, this continent has the most refugees
What is Africa
500
The transition of diseases as a country moves through development is known as the....
What is Epidemiological transition model
500
Countries that are in the latter stages of stage 4 and the beginning of stage 5 have these characteristics...
Zero population growth or declining populations
500
The population pyramid of Japan is seen below, which stage of the DTM are they in?
Stage 5
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
This is the season relocation of people from one location to another, often herders from high to low altitudes during winter months
What is transhumance