Population Basics
This term refers to the number of people per unit of land area.
The measure of births per 1,000 people.
What is the Crude Birth Rate (CBR)?
A wide base on a population pyramid usually indicates this.
What is a high birth rate?
1) Something negative that causes migrants to leave a location.
2) Something positive that entices migrants to move to a new location.
1) What is a push factor?
2) What is a pull factor?
Stage of the DTM defined by declining death rates but high birth rates?
What is Stage 2?
Cities with lots of jobs creating a clustered population distribution pattern is an example of a(n) ________ factor.
What is an economic factor?
The measure of total births to total deaths in a population in a given year.
The 2 ways in which a population is divided up by a population pyramid.
What are age and gender?
Term used to describe a person who is forced to leave his or her country for fear of persecution or death
What is a refugee?
The birth and death rate for a Stage 5 country.
What is low?
This type of density measures the number of people per unit of arable land.
What is Physiological Density?
The portion of the population either under 15 or over 64 years of age.
What is the dependency ratio?
Government policy/campaign utilized to boost a low birth rate.
What is a pronatalist policy?
While immigration is moving TO a location, this term means to move AWAY from a location.
What is emigration?
The USA is an example of a Stage _ country.
This density measure compares the number of farmers to the amount of arable land.
What is agricultural density?
The average age that women marry in a population has a strong impact on birth rates. This is an example of a(n) ________ factor.
What is a cultural factor?
A population pyramid that narrows quickly at the top usually indicates this.
What is low life expectancy?
This migration occurs not by choice, but rather due to conflict, disaster, or persecution.
What is forced migration?
The reason that death rates begin to fall as a country progresses through the DTM.
What is higher life expectancy/advancing medical technology?
These are the 4 types of population distribution patterns for a given group of people.
What are random, uniform, linear, and clustered?
Calculate the 2025 Crude Death Rate of a population with the following metrics:
(round to nearest hundredth)
2025 total deaths: 1,623
2025 total population: 147,345
What is 11.01? (per 1,000)
List 2 ways in which a country being at war might impact the look of its population pyramid?
What is "a low birth rate," "a lower population of young/middle aged males," "a lower overall population (migration)"...?
This type of migration involves leaving one country and entering a new country.
What is transnational migration?
What countries are still in stage 1 of the DTM?
What is none?