Population Basics
The total number of people living in a particular area.
What is population?
On a population pyramid, this age group is represented at the bottom.
What is the youngest age group?
This model shows how birth rates, death rates, and population growth change as a country develops.
What is the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
This exchange of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas began after contact between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The number of people living within a specific unit of land area.
What is population density?
A population pyramid with a very wide base generally indicates this.
What is a high birth rate / rapidly growing population / Less Developed Country
In Stage 1 of the DTM, both birth rates and death rates are generally this.
What are high?
These are factors that encourage people to leave their current location.
What are push factors?
These two Spanish monarchs sponsored Christopher Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
This population statistic measures the number of live births per 1,000 people in a population each year.
What is crude birth rate (CBR)?
This type of population pyramid has a relatively equal distribution of people across age groups.
What is a stationary population pyramid?
During Stage 2, death rates decrease while birth rates remain high, causing this.
What is rapid population growth?
These are factors that cause a migrant to stop in an unpredicted location due to a desirable factor.
What are intervening opportunities?
This devastating effect of European contact killed large numbers of Indigenous people who had little immunity to them.
What are European diseases?
This is the number of deaths that occur in a population during a given period of time.
What is the death rate?
A population pyramid has a narrow base and a large percentage of older people. What does this suggest about the country's population?
What is an aging or declining population?
In this stage, birth rates begin to decrease because of factors such as education, urbanization, and access to contraception.
What is Stage 3?
Factors that cause a migrant to stop their journey unpredictably due to an undesirable factor.
What are intervening obstacles?
This system occurs when a powerful country establishes control over another territory for political or economic benefit.
What are Colonialism and Imperialism?
A country has a high birth rate and a low death rate. What will most likely happen to its population?
What is the population will grow rapidly?
A country has a very wide population pyramid base. Predict one challenge the country may face as this large young population grows older.
What is increased demand for jobs, education, housing, healthcare, or other resources?
A country has low birth rates, low death rates, and a slowly declining population. Which stage of the DTM is it most likely in?
What is Stage 4 (or 5)?
A person leaves their home country because of war and crosses an international border to seek safety. What type of migrant might this person be?
What is a refugee?
A source describes European powers taking control of African territories and exploiting their resources while imposing European languages and cultural practices. What broader process does this source describe?
What is European imperialism/colonialism?