LDCs vs. MDCs
Vocab
Population Pyramid
Migration
Chex Mix
100
types of countries have the most rapid population growth
What is LDC?
100
Another term for Zero Population Growth, this is when an area hits its limit, The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can support
What is Carry Capacity?
100
two demographics measured by a population pyramid
What is age and gender?
100
Over 70% of all humans live within 300 miles of what
What are oceans?
100
type of thematic map would best show the population density of a country
What is dot map
200
Draw the population pyramid of an LDC
What is Wide base and narrow top with a low life expectancy
200
Someone who is displaced because of war, famine or persecution
What is refugee?
200
If a population pyramid is “upside down”, which demographic will be highest?
Who are elderly people?
200
Better jobs, healthier lifestyle and closer to work are examples of
What are Pull Factors?
200
Malthus mostly blamed this group for population problems
Who are the poor?
300
Draw the population pyramid of an MDC:
What is "coke bottle" shaped. Large middle-aged population
300
1. Amount of arable land per person
2. Amount of people per area of land
3. amount of people who farm for a society.
What is 1. physiological density 2. arithmetic density 3. agricultural density?
300
China instituted this policy in hopes of controlling an out of control population.
What is One child policy
300
Gang violence, unemployment and famine are examples of
What are Push Factors?
300
In the epidemiological transition model, what happens in stage 5?
Diseases transform or evolve and become resistant to human medication.
400
List 3 characteristics of an MDC:
What is Low birth rate; low death rate; high life expectancy; higher education; healthcare; low agricultural density
400
How do you calculate RNI (rate of natural increase)
What is CBR-CDR? (crude birth rate - crude death rate)
400
The ratio comparing those who are too young or too old to work compared to the economically active.
What is dependency ratio
400
The largest forced migration in the history of the world
What is Transatlantic Slave Trade?
400
Why is Japan an agriculture anomaly with a high carry capacity?
Improvements in agricultural technology
500
How does agricultural density differ between LDCs and MDCs?
MDCs have a lower ag. density due to technology and mass food production whereas LDCs have a high ag. density due to a lack of technology
500
If time and population are graphed, typically what shape emerges?
“S Curve”
500
In the Epidemiological Transition, this is the "stage of pestilence and famine"
What is stage 1?
500
This is a main problem with arithmetic density in analyzing a country
It does not take into account clustering of people
500
10,000 years ago an event allowed humans to become sedentary and quit nomadic hunting and gathering. What was this event?
What is Neolithic Revolution or the Agricultural Revolution