MIGRATION
What is the term for movement of people from one place to another within the same country?
What is Internal Migration
Which stage is characterised by a traditional, subsistence-based economy, low productivity and limited technology?
What is Stage 1 - Traditional Society
What is the term for economic growth that can occur when a country has a large proportion of working-age people?
What is the demographic dividend?
What does the Demographic Transition Model show?
What is how a population changes over time as a country develops?
Describe
What is identifying the main features or characteristics of something without giving reasons why?
A person leaves an area because of unemployment and moves somewhere with more job opportunities. What are these two factors called?
What is Push factors and pull factors.
Which stage involves rapid industrialisation, increased investment and sustained economic growth?
What is Stage 3 — Take-off
What is one major challenge caused by populations becoming older?
What is greater pressure on healthcare, aged care and pensions?
What is the term for the difference between a country's birth rate and death rate?
What is natural increase?
Trend
What is the general direction in which something changes over a period of time?
What type of internal migration occurs when people move from rural areas to urban areas, often in search of employment, education, or better living conditions?
What is Rural-to-urban migration
What is one major weakness of Rostow’s Model?
It assumes that all countries follow the same linear path of development, which may not reflect the different circumstances and histories of countries.
Which region is experiencing especially rapid population growth?
What is sub-Saharan Africa?
In the DTM, which stage sees death rates fall rapidly while birth rates remain high, causing a major increase in population?
What is Stage 2?
Pattern
What is a spatial change showing how something is distributed or changes from one place to another.
Give one example of a human factor and one example of an environmental process that can cause international migration
Human factor: Political instability / human rights abuses / economic opportunities
Environmental process: Climate change / natural disasters / resource scarcity / slow-onset degradation
Rostow’s Model focuses heavily on economic growth. What important factors does this potentially overlook?
(Name at least 2)
What is Social, political and cultural factors that also influence development.
What population trend can create housing shortages, overcrowding and traffic problems in rapidly growing cities?
What is rapid urbanisation?
What are two factors that can cause birth rates to fall as a country develops?
What are greater access to contraception, urbanisation, higher wages, or increased education/status of women?
Relationship
What is the connection between two or more variables, including how a change in one may affect another?
Explain the difference between forced migration and voluntary migration, giving one general example of each.
What is Forced migration occurs when people have little or no choice but to leave, such as fleeing conflict or persecution. Voluntary migration occurs when people choose to move, such as seeking better employment.
Rostow’s Model suggests that countries move through the stages in a fixed sequence. Why could this be unrealistic?z
What is Countries can skip stages, move backwards, or develop in different ways depending on their circumstances, resources, history and external influences.
What is the replacement fertility level needed to maintain a stable population in the long term?
What is 2.1 children per woman?
What is the term for continued population growth caused by a large young population, even after fertility rates have started to decline?
What is population momentum?
Explain
What is giving reasons or causes to show why something happens or is the way it is?