Vocabulary
The Demographic Transition Model
Population Pyramids
Rates
Odds and Ends
100
Total number of people supported by a unit of arable (farmable) land
Physiological Density
100
The three things (data) that the demographic transition model shows.
Birth Rates, Death Rates, and Population or NIR
100
The three "groups" of people that a population pyramid shows.
Kids, Adults, Old People
100
The average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.
Total Fertility Rate
100
China instituted this policy in hopes of controlling an out of control population.
One child policy
200
Total Number of People/Total Land Area
Arithmetic Density
200
The main characteristics of the third stage of the DTM. (There should be 3)
Declining Birth Rates, Declining Death Rates, Population growth begins to slow.
200
Concave sides on a population pyramid will tell you this about a country….
That there is a high death rate
200
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in a society
Crude death rate
200
Three of the top five most populated countries in the world.
China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil
300
Self-governing nation that has a mature economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations
Developed Country
300
The two revolutions that allowed for rapidly declining death rates in the 2nd stage of the DTM.
The Medical Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
300
Seen here... is a population pyramid of Scotland, which is in this stage of the demographic transition model.
Stage 3, (Low birth rates, low death rates, lower natural increase)
300
The total number if live births in a year for every 1000 people alive.
Crude Birth Rate
300
The ratio comparing those who are too young or too old to work compared to the economically active.
dependency ratio
400
This English economist that argued that population will increase geometrically rather than arithmetically.
Thomas Malthus
400
The two approaches to reducing birth rates in countries that will lead to stage 3 DTM conditions..
Education and Contraception
400
This population pyramid shows an anomaly, the reason for this strange structure could be....
Large portions of people retire in this region of Florida
400
Having a high rate of this means there is a large portion of children younger than 1 dying due to illness, disease or hunger.
Infant mortality
400
In the Epidemiological Transition, this is the "stage of pestilence and famine"
Stage 1
500
A country that has lower living standards and an underdeveloped industrial base is called this
Developing Country
500
Two countries that are currently in stage 4 of the DTM (Zero population growth or declining populations)
Teacher's Choice
500
What stage of the pop pyramid is this in:
Stage 2
500
If a country has a crude birth rate of 37 per 1000 and a death rate of 13 per thousand, what will their rate of natural increase be?
24 per thousand
500
Two of the four most populated regions in the world (Must be specific) where nearly 3/4 of the worlds population is located.
East Asia, South Asia, Europe, Southeast Asia