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Demography
Developed / Developing
Terms
Population
Birth Rates
100

The three basic resources animals need to survive?

What are food, water, and shelter?

100
Having high birth and death rates and low growth rates
What are Least Developed Countries?
100
The distribution of ages and sexes within a population at a particular time
What is Age Structure?
100

It took 50 years for the Earth's population to double from 1 billion to 2 billion. It took this many years for the population to double to 4 billion.

What is around 40 or 40 something years?

100
The human population growth was most rapid during this period of human history
What is Modern Age?
200

The maximum population that an environment can sustain indefinitely.

What is carrying capacity?

200
The 1991 Cholera outbreak in Lima, Peru was caused by ___________________________?
What is Lack of Clean Water?
200

The largest part of a population pyramid in a rapidly growing population.

What is the bottom

200
The resource most likely to be impacted by a rapidly growing population
What is Water?
200
The rate at which women are giving birth in a population
What is Fertility Rate?
300

The average number of years an individual is predicted to live is called

What is life expectancy?

300
The reason that wood is considered a limited resource in many developing countries.
What is People Cut Down Trees Faster Than They Can Grow?
300
The average number of years that a person is likely to live
What is Life Expectancy?
300
Two of the three reasons the human population doubled between 1880 and 1930
What is The Industrial Revolution, A Combination of High Birth Rates and Low Death Rates and Improvement in The Societal Infrastructure and Services.
300
Two examples of strategies that a government might use to try to limit population growth
What is Public Advertising, Family Planning Programs, Economic Incentives and Legal Punishments
400
The factors that contributed the most to the exponential growth of the human population.
What is More Food and Better Hygiene?
400
The continent that is experiencing the biggest increase in population
What is Asia?
400
The movement of people into cities and urban areas
What is Urbanization?
400
Countries with high growth rates usually have an age structure that has ______________________________
What is More Younger People Than Older People?
400
Because birth rates have begun to fall, the Earth's population will do this by 2050.
What is Stabilize? (Around 9 Billion)
500
Graphing the distribution of ages in a population at a specific time.
What is Population Pyramid?
500

The shape of a population pyramid of a least developed country.

What is a pyramid?

500
Any movement of people into cities and urban areas.
What is Migration?
500

These services lower the fertility rate in developing countries.

What is family planning services

500
Educating women worldwide has lowered birthrates partly because educated women may do this
What is Learn Family Planning Techniques?