Population Density Regions
Vocabulary
DTM/Pyramids
MOOORE Vocabulary
Anything and Everything
Density
100
This is the most populated country in East Asia.
China
100
This led to a significant imbalance in the number of men and women in modern China and a more rapidly aging population in the current day.
One Child Policy
100
In what stage would you find the following countries: Denmark, Germany, Russia, Japan
Stage 5
100
Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support
Carrying Capacity
100
Malthus believed that the world would face severe crisis because of overpopulation and lack of resources. These developments proved him to be incorrect.
Technological/Agricultural Advancements
100
Typically, these types of countries have lower agricultural densities because technology and finance allow a few people to farm extensive land areas and feed many people. This frees most of the population in these types of countries countries to work in factories, offices, or shops rather than in the fields.
Highly developed countries (and other synonyms such as wealthy, core, Stage 5 of Rostow's Modernization Model, Stage 5 of DTM, etc)
200
This is the most populated country in South Asia.
India
200
Laws providing for paid maternity leave or tax incentives to have additional children would be classified like this.
Pro-Natalist
200
A stable Population Pyramid, represents this stage of the DTM.
Stage 4
200
Suitable for growing crops/live able
Arable
200
A country with a total fertility rate of 2.5 could best be described as being above this important level of population change.
Replacement rate (TFR of 2.1)
200
Example: USA population of about 300 million people divided by 3.7 million total square miles is equal to about 80 people per square mile.
Arithmetic Density
300
This is the most populated country in Southeast Asia. As a little Unit 3 note, they have the highest population of Sunni Muslims.
Indonesia
300
Any forces or factors that may limit human migration to a closer destination.
Intervening Obstacle
300
This stage has the lowest CBR.
Stage 5
300
This person is in the process of applying for protection from another country as a result of involuntary migration.
Asylum seeker
300
The population pyramid of Zimbabwe looks like a Christmas tree because the country has a large percentage of
Very young people
300
Egypt has this level of physiological density and the opposite level of arithmetic density.
high physiological, low arithmetic density
400
This world region is the least densely populated, but is still experiencing a lot of population growth.
Sub-Saharan Africa
400
Ratio of people who are too young or too old to work compared to the working population is called the
dependency ratio
400
This stage has the highest population growth rate, especially toward the end of the stage.
Stage 2
400
Describes the number of babies that die within the first year of life
Infant Mortality Rate
400
When a foreigner sends money back to his or her home country.
Remittances
400
The amount of people divided by the amount of arable land
Physiological Density
500
Population density avoids these two physical features.
Deserts and plateaus
500
The birth rate minus the death rate expressed as a percentage (shows how quickly or slowly population growth in a country is)
Natural Increase Rate
500
The population pyramid of Zimbabwe looks like this stage of the DTM.
Stage 2
500
Gaining this legal status requires one to be displaced from their home by a well-founded fear of their life.
Refugee
500
The average number of births women bear in their lifetime
Total Fertility Rate
500
A more self-sustainable population is reflected in this level of physiological population density.
Low physiological density.
600
In China 2/3 of people are rural farmers, but 3/4 of people in these two East Asian countries people live in urban & industrial areas.
Japan & South Korea
600
Examples of this approach to population include everything from providing affordable birth control to involuntary sterilization.
Anti-Natalist
600
Based on the population pyramid above, which of the following will pose the greatest demographic challenge to China beginning in 2029?
Providing for the needs of its aging population (or a significant elderly dependency ratio).
600
a refugee within his or her own country
Internally Displaced Person
600
Physiological density is often seen as a more useful measure of density than arithmetic density due to its better ability to reflect this characteristic of an area.
Carrying capacity
600
Is the ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land.
Agricultural Density