Key Terms
Study of Population numbers, distribution, trends, and issues
What is demography?
Two things shown in a population pyramid?
What is the distribution of age + gender?
For skilled workers and professionals, a minimum of how many points out of 100 is needed to immigrant to Canada?
What is 67 Points?
First people that lived in Canada
What is indigenous Canadians?
The yearly number of live births per 1000
What is birth rate?
Nigeria is an example of this type of population pyramid - expandaing, contracting, or constrictuve?
What is expansive?
Mrs. Patel is a 28 year old woman from India. She would like to come to Canada as skilled worker. She completed a four year science degree and a 2 year master’s degree in structural engineering at the University of Delhi. She has worked in her field as a structural engineer for 7 years. She speaks fluent English, and reads, writes, and understands English very well. She has a job lined up already in Toronto. Is Ms. Patel a good candidate for immigration to Canada?
What is yes?
The majority of people arriving to Canada from Syria are
What is refugees?
A comprehensive claim in Canada resulted in the creation of this territory in 1999
What is Nunavut?
What the formula for Natural Increase?
Birth Rate- Death Rate
True or false, the population of males and females on a pyramid are typically shown in percents.
True
What is the maximum amount of points a person can get for age?
10 Points
What are three (3) push factors?
What is war, high crime rates, poverty, natural disasters?
In what province is Grassy Narrows?
What is Ontario?
When you are leaving your country of origin to go elsewhere, you are what?
What is an emigrant?
If the birth rate is low and the death rate is even lower, what type of stage is the population at, expanding or contracting?
Contracting
Name 3 of the 6 things that are part of the criteria with the point system.
Adaptability, arranged employment, age, work experience, languages and education
Ture or False? Canada recently decreased its immigration targets from 500,000 for 2025 to 395,000.
What is true
In this type of school that language + culture of mainstream Canadian society was taught to Indigenous children in hopes they would assimilate. Students were punished + abused for practicing their culture and language. Last one closed in 1997.
What is residential school?
When you minus Immigration Rate by Emigration Rate, what do you get?
Net Migration Rate
Stage of the Demographic Transition Model that is characterized by high birth rates, high death rates, and limited education and healthcare.
What is stage 1?
What are the maximum points a person can get for work experience?
21 Points
According to the Immigration Points System what skill/quality are worth the most amount of points?
What is education?
Largest group of Indigenous Canadians
What is First Nations?