Population Pyramids
DTM
Vocab
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100
Draw a population pyramid of a developing country
100
What does DTM stand for?
Demographic Transition Model
100
Define life expectancy
the amount of years a person is expected to live
100
List 2 factors that contribute to a country having a LOW death rate.
good medical care, high GDP (wealthy country), access to good food/water, stable government (no wars/conflict), etc.
100
List 2 factors that contribute to a country having a HIGH birth rate?
lack of contraception, low education, cultural/religious customs, not many roles for women.
200
List 2 pieces of data that are shown on a population pyramid
Age categories, male, female, country, year of the graph.
200
What does the DTM measure?
How populations change as a country develops
200
Define literacy rate
the amount of people over the age of 15 who can read and write.
200
What is the age range for "providers" in a society.
15-64
200
What are the 4 sectors of economy?
Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary
300
Draw a population pyramid for an AGEING country and a STABLE country (label them)
300
List the stages of the DTM for LEDC and MEDC.
LEDC= 1, 2, 3 MEDC=4, 5
300
The study of vital population statistics is referred to as _________.
Demographics
300
What happens if a country has a large DEPENDENT population?
more financial stress, less resources, lower quality of life, higher poverty (possible), etc.
300
List 3 characteristics of a Highly Developed country.
low BR, high LE, high literacy rate, industrialized, MEDC, low infant mortality, etc.
400
What does it mean when a population pyramid has a large base?
high BR, lots of babies, growing population.
400
What factor pushes a country from a stage 1 to a stage 2 on the DTM?
industrialization
400
Fill in the blank:
Birth rate and Death rate are measured by the # per _______.
1,000
400
How does a HIGH birth rate and a LOW death rate affect population growth?
population increases quickly
400
List THREE reasons why a country would have a LOW life expectancy.
poor healthcare, edu, access to food/water, lack of industry, poverty, etc.
500
When the death rate is higher than the birth rate, this happens to a country's population.
decreases
500
A country with a HIGH dependency ratio have a lot of people who ______.
do not work.
500
fill in the blank:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita shows geographers how much _______ was produced per person within a given country.
wealth
500
What type of jobs would be most common in a primary sector economy (mostly LEDC countries)?
The extraction of raw materials from the earth
500
This stage of the Demographic Transition Model has a declining birth rate, declining death rate and a population growth.
stage 3