Demography
Definition of Demography
What is the study of human populations?
The two countries that were compared in the case studies of Ilse and Manoj:
What were Germany and India?
This type of graphic helps demographers study the ages and distribution of males vs females in populations:
What is a population pyramid?
When urban areas spread out and grow into the surrounding rural areas:
What is urban sprawl?
When resources are manufactured for sale:
What is a secondary industry?
Conditions that cause people to leave their place and move to another:
What is a push factor?
The patterns of where people live is called:
What is Population Distribution
Most of the people living in Canada live in:
What are urban areas?
The United Nations ranks countries on this index for the quality of life for the citizens:
What is the Human Development Index?
Three ways to make a community safe, walkable, and accessible:
Answers will vary:
Corner stores, well-lit parks and paths, front porches, public transit, ramps on sidewalks, cross walks with audible signals, etc.
Examples of a primary industry are;
What are fishing, logging, and mining?
Conditions in a country that attract people to move there from another place:
What are pull factors?
The measure of how crowded an area is is called this:
What is population density?
Some of the features of a good natural environment that attracts settlement:
What are good, arable land with a moderate climate and water source; natural resources to provide materials for shelter, food, and trade?
Three of the ways the quality of life in various countries is measured:
Life expectancy, per capita income, literacy rates, birth rate, death rate, doctors per capita
(any three will earn the points)
Types of land use zones (at least 5)
What are industrial, institutional, open space/recreational, commercial, residential, and transportation?
(any five for the points)
Changes in the world of work that can cost jobs are due to:
What is technology or robots?
Three examples of a push factor:
What are war, oppression, environmental disasters, persecution, lack of jobs, etc.?
Three types of population distribution are:
What are scattered, linear, and clustered?
This factor influences populations in an area because settlement may have started earlier (ie. in Europe, Asia, and Africa) because of favourable conditions, so their populations will have grown over time.
How can the history of a region influence the number of people living there?
The type of graph used to see whether two population characteristics have an effect on each other:
What is a scatter graph?
Examples of land use conflicts:
What happens when a school or hospital is built near a busy road or industrial zone, or a residential area is located near something smelly like a landfill, water treatment plant, etc.?
Three examples of a pull factor:
What are economic opportunities, health care, good education, fair government, etc.?
The different densities and their ratios (people per square km) are:
Sparse: <15 people per square km
Moderate: 15-150 people per square km
Dense: >150 people per square km
Three factors that determine population distribution and density are
What are the Natural Environment, Bodies of Water, History and Economic Development?
(Any three of these will earn the points)
Comparison of Ilse and Manoj's lives in at least two categories:
What are education, transportation, medical care, hours worked, etc. (any two with details)
Ways to make a community sustainable (like Vaxjo):
What are solar power, grey water, equitable housing, free public transportation, bike paths, economic opportunities, lots of trees, locally sourced resources, etc.?
Three issues in Agriculture:
What are pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and factory farms?
Two barriers to Migration:
What are physical barriers (i.e. mountains, oceans, etc.), economic barriers (not enough money to travel), political barriers (laws forbidding emigration), legal barriers (limits to the number of people a country will accept), etc.