Population Basics
The maximum number of people an area can support.
What is carrying capacity?
The term for the number of births in a year per 1,000 people.
What is crude birth rate?
The stage of the DTM where birth rates remain high while death rates begin to fall, causing rapid population growth.
What is Stage 2?
The term for a government policy that encourages people to have more children.
What is pro-natalist or expansive?
Conditions that make people want to leave a place.
What are push factors?
This scholar predicted that population would outgrow food supply, leading to famine and conflict.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
The term for the number of people per square unit of land.
What is population density or arithmetic population density?
A rapidly growing population will has this type of CBR and CDR.
What is high CBR and declining CDR?
Country U has a sharp narrowing at the base of its population pyramid, telling us this about its birth rate.
What are rapidly declining birth rates?
The country that implemented a one-child policy other than slow population growth in the late 20th century.
What is China?
The term for people who move from one country to another temporarily to work, without intending to stay permanently.
What are guest workers?
Countries with high IMR have a ________ Women's Index and _______ life expectancy.
What is low and low?
The type of population density that measures people per unit of arable land.
What is physiological density?
The term for the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime.
What is total fertility rate?
Increased urbanization, access to family planning, and changing social values are all impacts of this in DTM stage 3.
Providing free contraception and access to family planning services are examples of.
What are anti-natalist policies or restrictive policies?
The type of migration that happens in a series of smaller moves, gradually bringing a person to their final destination.
What is step migration?
The term for money that is sent by migrants back to family in their home country.
What are remittances?
Two thirds of the world's population (34%) live in these two countries.
What are China and India?
Country X has a total fertility rate below 2.1. Without any immigration, this will happen to its population.
What is decline?
The stage of the DTM that is characterized by a declining population and an aging society. Provide an example.
What is stage 5?
Russia, Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Portugal, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia
Provide a reason that a more developed or core country would implement a pro-natalist policy.
What is:
- to counter population decline (low CBR or TFR)?
- labor shortages?
- an aging population?
The name for a dislocated person who has not left their country.
What is internally displaced persons (IDPs)?
The model that shows the shift in disease patterns as a country develops, paralleling the demographic transition model.
What is the epidemiological transition model or ETM?
Country A is a less developed country with many farmers per unit of arable land and a small portion of arable land compared to total land area. Order from least to most the 3 measures of population density.
What is arithmetic - agricultural - physiological?
A country has a crude birth rate of 12 and a crude death rate of 10. Find the doubling time.
What is 35 years?
DT = 70/NIR
The DTM stage characterized by: low growth/stationary, low CBR, low - slightly increasing CDR, zero NIR and rectangular shaped population pyramid.
What is stage 4?
Gender imbalances, aging population, or human rights violations are examples of.
What are negative consequence of a strict anti-natalist policy or restrictive policy?
The Gravity Model follows the premise of.
What is distance decay - the further away two things are the weaker the interaction?
Pressures on school/education, job creation, child nutrition and diseases, housing, and healthcare systems are examples of issues in countries that have this.
What is a high youth dependency ratio?