Vocabulary
The Demographic Transition Model
Population Pyramids
Rates
Migration
100
This is the scientific study of characteristics of population
Demography
100
The three things (data) that the demographic transition model shows.
Birth Rates, Death Rates, and Population or NIR
100
The three "groups" of people that a population pyramid shows.
Kids, Adults, Old People
100
The average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.
Total Fertility Rate
100

Migration driven by economic opportunity or political freedom is known as this type of migration.

What is voluntary migration?

200
The largest number of people that the environment of a particular area can support
Carrying Capacity
200
The main characteristics of the third stage of the DTM. (There should be 3)
Declining Birth Rates, Declining Death Rates, Population growth begins to slow.
200

A wide base of a population pyramid with a very tapered top tells us that this country has severe problems with two of its demographic metrics.

What are the crude birth and crude death rates?

200
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in a society
Crude death rate
200

This is the most notable example of forced migration in human history, requiring millions of people to enter forced labor without any choice. 

What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
300

The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate.

Natural Increase Rate (NIR)

300
The two revolutions that allowed for rapidly declining death rates in the 2nd stage of the DTM.
The Medical Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
300

Seen here... is a population pyramid of Scotland, which is in this stage of the demographic transition model.

Stage 4, (Low birth rates, low death rates, lower natural increase)

300
The total number if live births in a year for every 1000 people alive.
Crude Birth Rate
300

When migrants follow friends or family members to a new location, geographers call this pattern ____

What is chain migration?

400
This English economist that argued that population will increase geometrically rather than arithmetically.
Thomas Malthus
400
The two approaches to reducing birth rates in countries that will lead to stage 3 DTM conditions..
Education and Contraception
400

This population pyramid displays that Ouray County, Colorado had a distinct problem in 2015 with one part of its economy. 

What is old age dependency?

400
Having a high rate of this means there is a large portion of children younger than 1 dying due to illness, disease or hunger.
Infant mortality
400

A country losing skilled workers to migration is said to experience this.

What is brain drain?

500

A person who has to leave his or her country to find safety and receives it in another country.

Refugee

500

Two countries that are currently in stage 4-5 of the DTM (Zero population growth or declining populations)

What are... (Any are okay)

Japan, the USA, Denmark, Canada, most of Europe, Germany, Italy, Russia


500

This population pyramid is in the stage marked by increased industrial production capability and medical care, but a steady birthrate remains.

What is stage 3?

500

If a country has a crude birth rate of 37 per 1000 and a death rate of 13 per thousand, what will their rate of natural increase be?

What is a high rate?
500

Modern migration can strain resources and infrastructure in receiving regions, leading to this type of impact on the environment.

What is overcrowding OR resource depletion?