Influences
Movement
Demographic Transition
Pyramids
Global Population
100
A nation has limited job opportunities for young professionals. This is the type of force driving population change in the nation.
What is a push?
100
This term describes the process of people moving into a foreign country to live.
What is "immigration"?
100
When total population is beginning to decrease even though brith and death rates are low, a population is in this stage of demographic transition.
What is Stage 5, or "declining".
100
This is the stage of development indicated by this population pyramid.
What is "developing"?
100
In this decade the global population grew to 1,000,000,000 people.
What are the 1800's?
200
Better healthcare, higher wages, and political stability are examples of these factors that attract migrants to a new location.
What are pull factors?
200
This is the type of migration that involves people moving out of a specific population.
What is emigration?
200
Stage three of the demographic transition model, "Late expanding", features decreasing birth rates, low death rates, and an increasing this.
What is total population?
200
This is the two word phrase used to describe the "bulge" in a population pyramid.
What is "baby boom"?
200
Starting in the late 1700s, the development of this medical technology began to drastically reduce death rates due to illness worldwide.
What are vaccines?
300
With hopes of becoming a future F1 star, a driver wants to move to UK for the top training facilities. An example of this kind of migratory force.
What is a pull?
300
This two word phase describes a specific type of emigration where a country loses its most highly educated and skilled professionals to other nations.
What is "brain drain"?
300
The stage of demographic transition that has a high birth and death rate with a low overall population is known as this.
What is Stage 1, or "high stationary"?
300
A population pyramid that is larger at the top than the bottom indicates this trend in population.
What is decline?
300
Policies aimed at this factor have been implemented by some countries, like China, in an effort to slow population growth.
What is birth rate?
400
This term describes the specific pull factor where a migrant follows family members or friends who have already established themselves in a new country.
What is "chain migration"?
400
This demographic metric is calculated by subtracting the number of emigrants from the number of immigrants in a specific region.
What is "net migration"?
400
During the "Early Expanding" stage of demographic transition, this metric decreases rapidly.
What is the death rate?
400
This global event caused many population pyramids to shrink in the segment of people born in the 1920s.
What is World War II?
400
The development of fertilizers in the 1900's created a population boom as people suddenly had more access to this.
What is food?
500
This metric, referring to the number of people living in a given area, could be considered a push factor if it climbs too high.
What is "population density"?
500
In the mid-19th century, this specific biological "push factor" caused over a million people to flee Ireland for the United States.
What is the Irish potato famine?
500
Thanks to low death rates in this stage of demographic transition, the total population drastically increases even as birthrates begin to decline.
What is Stage 3, or "late expanding"?
500
This is the state of the population indicated by this population pyramid.
What is stable?
500
This is considered "replacement level", the average number of children born per woman in a population that will stabilize a population.
What is 2?