Demographic transition model
This stage of the DTM has both high birth rates and death rates, leading to slow population growth. (Bonus points if you know the name of the stage)
What is Stage 1: High Stationary?
A narrow top in a population pyramid means this.
What is a high death rate?
This theorist thought humans can increase their carrying capacity.
Who is Ester Boserup?
This major historical event helped countries move from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the DTM.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The width or thickness of a population pyramids represents this.
What is population size?
Malthus argued that population grows ______ and food supply grows _____
What is Exponentially and Linearly?
A stage with a shrinking workforce, aging population, and pro-immigration policies.
What is Stage 4?
A population experiencing a war or pandemic looks like this on a population pyramid.
What is an indent or gap?
Climate change is a current issue that strengthens this theorist's argument.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
Why does population growth increase rapidly in Stage 2 even though birth rates remain high? (Does not need to be in the form of a question)
Death rates fall rapidly due to developments in technology, medicine, food supply, while the birth rates remain high
Why is the DTM considered a model rather than a universal rule? (Don't need to answer in the form of a question)
Not all countries follow the same path or timing, and migration and policy can alter population trends.
These three factors make up Malthus' Positive Checks.
What are famine, war, and disesase?
Two social changes that cause birth rates to decline in Stage 3. (there are many, I'll accept any two)
What are increased education, employment for women, adults prioritizing careers, access to contraception, changing cultural values (families choosing not to have kids)?
A government responds to a population pyramid with a wide top in this way.
What is increased healthcare, elder care, pension support?
This is the definition of carrying capacity.
What is the maximum, sustainable population that an environment's resources can support over time?