Vocabulary
The Demographic Transition Model
Population Pyramids
Rates
Odds and Ends
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
China instituted this policy in hopes of controlling an out of control population.
This is an examples of a(n) __________ policy.
One child policy
Antinatalist
100
Identify the region with the largest amout of migrants according to the data here
What is Asia
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
Concave sides on a population pyramid will tell you this about a country….
That there is a high death rate
200
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in a society
Crude death rate
200
Three of the top five most populated countries in the world.
China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil
200
When you are forced out of your home due to economic, social/cultural, poltical, and/or environmental factors
What is a PUSH factor
300
A portion of earth's surface occupied permanently by human settlement.
Ecumene
300
One of the two revolutions or main reasons 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 Paraguay, which is in this stage of the demographic transition model.
Stage 3, (Low birth rates, low death rates, lower natural increase)
300
The replacement rate for a population to fully replace itself.
2.1
300
The ratio comparing those who are too young or too old to work compared to the economically active.
dependency ratio
300
Refugees, Internally Displaced People, and asylum seekers are examples of this type of migration
What is Forced Migration
400
This English economist that argued that population will increase geometrically rather than arithmetically.
Thomas Malthus
400
Identify two social factors that will reduce birth rates in countries that will lead to stage 3 DTM conditions.
Education and Contraception
400
This population pyramid shows an anomaly, the reason for this strange structure is...Large portions of people retire in this region of Florida
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
In the Epidemiological Transition, this is the "stage of pestilence and famine"
Stage 1
400
List one PULL factor for each of the following categories:
Economic
Social/Cultural
Political
Environmental
Economic - higher wages
Social/Cultural - religious freedom, educational opportunities (universities), more leisure options
Political - political stability
Environmental - more attractive climate
500
The formula for the demographic equation (to determine total population)
(Births - Deaths) + Migration - Emigration = Population
500
Two countries that are currently in stage 4 of the DTM (zero growth or declining populations)
China, USA, Brazil, UK, France, Italy, South Korea, Spain, Argentina, Canada, Australia
500
Explain one potential reason for the skewed pattern you see on the population pyramid.
One reason could be because of all the guest workers working in the oil industry, who tend to be male.
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?
24 per thousand
500
Two of the four most populated regions in the world (Must be specific) where nearly 3/4 of the worlds population is located.
East Asia, South Asia, Europe, Southeast Asia
500
List all 7 of Ravenstein's Laws of Migration
1. Short distances
2. Urban areas
3. Multiple Steps
4. Rural to urban
5. Counter migration
6. Youth
7. Gender patterns