Population

Vocabulary

100

This is the total number of live births per 1000 people in a country.

What is the crude birth rate?

200

The average number of years a newborn baby can expect to live is called the ________________.

What is life expectancy?

300

This is the annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared with the total number of live births.

What is the infant mortality rate?

400

This is the percentage by which a population grows in a year. (It's also basically the birth rate minus the death rate.)

What is the natural increase rate?

500

This method is used to estimate how a variable like population multiplies by calculating the annual growth rate.

What is the Rule of 70 or Doubling Time Immigration?

Demographic Transition

100

What is demographic transition?

What is a model that shows how birth and death rates change as a country develops?

200

How many stages are there in a demographic transition model?

What is 5 stages?

300

What is the purpose of a demographic indicator?

What is to measure population structure, fertility and mortality, marriage and divorce patterns, and migration?

400

In what stage does the birth rate begin to fall? 

What is Stage 3?

500

Name a region of the world that is currently in Stage 4 (or even Stage 5) of the demographic transition.

What are North America, Western Europe, Australia, and far eastern Asia (Japan and Korea)?

Population Pyramids

100

What stage is a population pyramid with a very high birth rate and low elderly population?

Stage 1 (Hugh fluctuating)

200

In what stage are countries where the sides of the population pyramid are nearly straight?

What is Stage 4?

300

What does a bump in the middle of a pyramid mean?

What is a large working-age population?

400

Of birth rate, gender balance, or fertility rate, which one is NOT shown in a population pyramid?

What is fertility rate?

500

How can a population pyramid show the impact of a war or pandemic?

What is a dip in the age group affected during that time?

Migration/Immigration

100

good educational opportunities, family connections, or lots of jobs in a region are an example of what?

What are pull factors?

200

What are the 3 classes of Immigrants?

Skilled workers, family, refugee

300

Civil war or high rates of unemployment in a region are examples of _____________.

What are push factors?

400

A person that leaves their country to live in another that isn't their country of birth:

What is an immigrant?

500

What do we call the total number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants?

What is Net Migration?

Population Density & Distribution

100

What is population density?

What is the amount of people per square kilometer?

200

What is the birth rate?

What is the number of live births per 1000 people during a time period?

300

What do we call the part of the population that depends on others for support? (15 and under 65 rely on those in between)

What is the dependency load?

400

Name a physical geographic factor that can lead to low population density in a region.

What are mountains, deserts, poor soil, or extreme climates?

500

Where in the world are trending toward the 2.1 replacement rate?

Developing countries (India, Vietnam, Egypt)