Population Change
Population
Shrinking Populations
Aging Populations
Declining Workforce
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The study of population trends focuses on four factors. Births, deaths, ______, and _______.
What is aging and migration?
100
This population pyramid shows this type of growth.
What is rapid growth?
100
One of the main reasons for a shrinking population.
What is low birth rate?
100
These are examples of what causes a population to age.
What is a rise in life expectancy and a drop in the birth rate?
100
Causes of a workforce decline.
What is more workers retire each year than join the workforce?
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A graph that shows the ages and genders in a population, with the youngest ages at the bottom.
What is a population pyramid?
200
The type of growth shown in this population pyramid.
What is slow growth?
200
Just one of the reasons that women's total fertility rate is shrinking.
What is women putting off having children to pursue education or careers, family finances, or birth control?
200
An example of a problem caused by an aging population.
What is increases in pension costs and health care costs?
200
DAILY DOUBLE
Your team has found one of the two daily doubles. This allows a team to risk as many points as they would like on the unknown question. If they answer the question correctly, they receive the points. If they answer incorrectly, they lose those points.
Problems that can happen when there is a workforce decline.
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The average number of babies that a woman has during her lifetime.
What is total fertility rate?
300
The type of growth shown in this population pyramid.
What is negative growth?
300
A problem caused by a shrinking population.
What is...
Jobs in child related business close.
Schools close.
Labor shortages
Fewer people to serve in the military.
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Examples of how a country could deal with rising pension and health care costs.
What is cut the amount of money each pensioner receives, raise the retirement age which shortens the time they will receive a pension, and give bonuses to workers who delay their retirement?
300
This country was used as an example of a declining workforce.
What is Germany?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Your team has found one of the two daily doubles. This allows a team to risk as many points as they would like on the unknown question. If they answer the question correctly, they receive the points. If they answer incorrectly, they lose those points.
This term refers to the total fertility rate needed for a population to replace itself.
400
The stages of population growth shown below.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
400
An example of what Italy has tried to help their population dilemma.
What is ...
Paying out a "birth bonus."
Family-friendly work policies, such as paid leave, flexible work hours, and the right to work part time.
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Ways that a government can reduce the cost of health care.
What is preventing health care problems later in life, offer sound health care benefits when they are in the workforce, and encourage home care instead of nursing home care since it is cheaper?
400
Examples of what a country can do in response to a declining workforce.
What is keep workers working longer, retrain older workers, encourage women to join/stay in the workforce, family friendly work policies, and look for workers outside of their country?
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The number of old and young dependents who don't work compared with the working-age population.
What is dependency ratio?
500
This is the stage of population growth that the United States is currently in.
What is stage 3?
500
The narrow base of this population pyramid tells us that Italy's population is ...
What is shrinking?
500
A sudden increase in the birth rate.
What is a baby boom?
500
Reasons why developing countries have a higher birth rate.
What is larger families are seen as a benefit to rural living, higher infant mortality rate, and lack of available birth control?