Population Metrics
Push and Pull Factors
Population Pyramids/Graphs
Indigenous Population
Urban Vs. Rural
100

This term describes how closely people live together within a specific area or country.

What is population density?

100

This term refers to a reason that attracts someone to come to a new country.

Pull Factor.

100

These graphs depict a population split by gender and age

Population pyramids

100

The three major groups of First Nations peoples are the First Nations, the Inuit, and this group.

Metis

100

What does urban mean?

Not rural, cities, dense population.

200

This has been the main trend of Canada’s population over the last 70 years.

It has been increasing

200

The majority of Canada's current immigrants arrive from this country.

India?

200

Demographers classify populations into these three major age groups: Children under 15, Older adults 65+, and this working group.

Working Adults (15–64)?

200

While the general Canadian population is growing, the Indigenous population is doing this in comparison.

Growing faster

200

Does the majority of the Canadian population live in an urban or rural setting?

Urban
300

The birth rate is calculated as the number of births per this many people.

One thousand
300

Between 1896 and 1913, this specific offering in the Prairies acted as a major historical pull factor.

Free Land

300

This economic term describes the percentage of the population (children and older adults) that does not work.

dependency load

300

These are agreements between the government and Indigenous peoples that cover land sharing and mutual obligations like healthcare.

Treaties

300
What might be the difficulty with accessing healthcare in a rural setting?
Hospitals are farther away.
400

These are the two distinct ways a population can increase in size.

Natural Increase and Immigration

400

This historical event is a classic example of a "push factor" that drove people away from Ireland.

Potato Famine

400

A population pyramid with a broad base and a narrow top indicates this type of growth.

Rapid Growth

400

These are parcels of land specifically set aside for use by First Nations peoples.

Reserves

400

What is the minimum number of people per square kilometre that the census considers urban?

400 kilometres squared.

500

To keep a population at its current level, each family must have this number of children (Hint, a percentage of a human)

2.1

500

Escaping the pressure of the "Gaokao" exam is a specific push factor for immigrants from this nation.

China

500

A population pyramid that is equal in size throughout each section.

Zero growth

500

Approximately this many Indigenous people in Canada (out of 10) live on a reserve.

4

500

What function does the census perform?

Counts the population and keeps track of jobs, population density, makeup of the population, etc.