Demographic Transition Model
In Stage 1 of the DTM, birth rates and death rates are both ________.
What is high?
This term describes the average number of children a woman is expected to have during her lifetime.
What is Total Fertility Rate (TFR)?
The permanent movement of people within the same country is called this.
What is internal migration?
This term refers to policies designed to encourage population growth.
What are pro-natalist policies?
This is the difference between the number of births and deaths in a population.
What is natural increase?
Stage 2 of the DTM is characterized by this key change in death rates.
What is a rapid decline in death rates?
The number of people per unit area of arable land is known as this type of density.
What is Physiological Density?
This type of migration occurs when people move due to factors like wars or natural disasters.
What is forced migration?
China’s One-Child Policy is an example of this type of population policy.
What is an anti-natalist policy?
The process by which people move to urban areas from rural areas is known as this.
What is urbanization?
Countries in Stage 3 of the DTM experience this type of growth in population.
What is slowing growth?
This is the term for the maximum population that an environment can sustainably support
What is Carrying Capacity?
To leave the country of origin to enter another country is called _____?
Transnational migration
This European country offers financial incentives to families to encourage higher birth rates.
What is France?
This map displays population distribution using dots to represent people.
What is a dot map?
This is the primary reason why countries move from Stage 4 to Stage 5 of the DTM.
What is declining birth rates?
The annual number of births per 1,000 people in a population is called this.
What is Crude Birth Rate (CBR)?
The migration pattern where educated individuals leave their home country for better opportunities is called this.
What is brain drain?
These policies aim to reduce population growth by promoting education and access to contraception.
What are family planning policies? or What are anti-natalist policies
This term describes areas with low population density and limited development.
What are sparsely populated regions?
Name one country currently in Stage 2 of the DTM.
What is Niger (or other low-income countries)?
A country with a high dependency ratio has a large proportion of these two age groups.
What are children and elderly?
Someone migrates when they have ties to a previous migrant refers to what type of migration?
Chain migration
Population policies are often influenced by these two key demographic indicators.
What are fertility rates and mortality rates?
This measure calculates the number of people a given area can support with its resources.
What is carrying capacity?