This vocab term(s) is used to describe a population that has reached the maximum number of individuals that the environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
Food supply is this type of limiting factor.
What is density dependent?
This is the type of settlement pattern is formed when several roads meet, and houses are built along those roads.
Star shaped settlement
Move up the settlement hierarchy, and _________ settlements are found
fewer
Illustrate the shape of the population pyramid for the following description.
high mortality and high birth rates
Stage 1
Birthrates and immigration have this impact on population size.
What is increases?
A wildfire is this type of limiting factor.
What is density independent?
______________ settlement shapes grow around a central feature like village greens or lake and are organised, so the middle remains accessible.
Circular
Settlement hierarchy is when settlements are ordered and classified based on three principles:
o Population size
o Number of services provided
o Number of settlements
Illustrate the shape of the population pyramid for the following description.
mortality falls, but birth rates are still high
Stage 2
Deathrates and emigration have this impact on population size.
What is decrease?
Competition is this type of limiting factor.
What is density dependent?
Where isolated houses or farms are set in fields or along roads rather than concentrated in one area.
What kind of settlement is this called?
Dispersed settlement
As the amount of population _________________, number and types of services provided also __________________ .
Complete the sentence with the same word in both the blanks.
increases
Illustrate the shape of the population pyramid for the following description.
mortality is low, and birth rates begin to fall
Stage 3
This is the mathematical equation that represents when a population has reached its carrying capacity.
What is birth + immigration = death and emigration?
Salinity is this type of limiting factor.
What is density independent?
Where there is a physical feature such as a river or a trade and transport route, settlements group and form a line along its path.
What kind of settlement is this?
Linear Settlement
The settlements that forms the base of the settlement pyramid hierarchy is the __________________ settlements.
isolated
Illustrate the shape of the population pyramid for the following description.
mortality and birth rates are low
Stage 4
Countries experiencing falling birth rates include many HICs and MICs, the implications of this include:
1.
2.
List at least two implications.
o School closures due to fewer children
o Future workforce shortages
This month would suggest the most limited resources.
What is March?
Form when settlements tightly cluster around a central feature such as a village green, across road or church etc.
What kind of settlement is this?
Nucleated settlement
Illustrate the shape of the population pyramid for the following description.
the future of population growth will be determined by what is happening to fertility rates
Stage 5