Population Metrics
This term describes how closely people live together within a specific area or country.
What is population density?
This term refers to a reason that attracts someone to come to a new country.
Pull Factor.
These graphs depict a population split by gender and age
Population pyramids
The three major groups of First Nations peoples are the First Nations, the Inuit, and this group.
Metis
What does urban mean?
Not rural, cities, dense population.
This has been the main trend of Canada’s population over the last 70 years.
It has been increasing
The majority of Canada's current immigrants arrive from this country.
India?
Demographers classify populations into these three major age groups: Children under 15, Older adults 65+, and this working group.
Working Adults (15–64)?
While the general Canadian population is growing, the Indigenous population is doing this in comparison.
Growing faster
Does the majority of the Canadian population live in an urban or rural setting?
The birth rate is calculated as the number of births per this many people.
Between 1896 and 1913, this specific offering in the Prairies acted as a major historical pull factor.
Free Land
This economic term describes the percentage of the population (children and older adults) that does not work.
dependency load
These are agreements between the government and Indigenous peoples that cover land sharing and mutual obligations like healthcare.
Treaties
These are the two distinct ways a population can increase in size.
Natural Increase and Immigration
This historical event is a classic example of a "push factor" that drove people away from Ireland.
Potato Famine
A population pyramid with a broad base and a narrow top indicates this type of growth.
Rapid Growth
These are parcels of land specifically set aside for use by First Nations peoples.
Reserves
What is the minimum number of people per square kilometre that the census considers urban?
400 kilometres squared.
To keep a population at its current level, each family must have this number of children (Hint, a percentage of a human)
2.1
Escaping the pressure of the "Gaokao" exam is a specific push factor for immigrants from this nation.
China
A population pyramid that is equal in size throughout each section.
Zero growth
Approximately this many Indigenous people in Canada (out of 10) live on a reserve.
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What function does the census perform?
Counts the population and keeps track of jobs, population density, makeup of the population, etc.