Vocabulary
Demographic Transition
Population Pyramids
Migration
Grab Bag
100

This is the total number of live births per 1000 people in a country.

What is the birth rate?

100

This stage of the demographic transition is characterised by a decreasing death rate but a very high birth rate, resulting in population growth.

What is Stage 2 of the DTM?

100

A population pyramid with a very high birth rate and low elderly population would be typical of a _______________ country.

What is Stage 1 and/or 2 country?

100

When people have no choice but to move to a new place, it is called ______________.

What is forced migration?

100

This is the total number of deaths per year for every 1000 people in a country.

What is the death rate?

200

The average number of years a newborn baby can expect to live is called the ________________.

What is life expectancy?

200

This stage, often seen today in MEDCs, is characterised by a low death rate and a low birth rate, resulting in little population growth.

What is Stage 4 of the DTM?

200

In these population pyramids, the sides of the population pyramid are nearly straight.

What is a stationary population pyramid?

200

Civil war or high rates of unemployment in a region are examples of _____________.

What are push factors?

200

The level of fertility needed so that a child is born to account for each person in the parent's generation.

What is replacement level fertility rate?

300

This is the annual number of deaths of infants under one year old compared with the total number of live births.

What is infant mortality rate?

300

____________ is the stage when the death rate drops and the birth rate plummets.

What is Stage 3 of the DTM?

300

Of birth rate, gender balance, or fertility rate, which one is NOT shown in a population pyramid?

What is fertility rate?

300

This is the name of the model that looks at the different stages of migration.

What is Zelinsky's Model of Migration?

300

This is the difference between immigration and emigration.

What is immigrants arrive and emigrants leave?

400

This is the rate by which a population grows in a year. (It's also basically the birth rate minus the death rate.)

What is the rate of natural increase?

400

In ___________, both the birth rate and the death rate are extremely high, resulting in very low population growth.

What is Stage 1 of the DTM?

400

These are three characteristics of an expansive population pyramid.

What is high birth rate, high death rate, low life expectancy, slow population growth?

400

This stage of Zelinsky's model involves migration that is often characterised by rural-to-urban movement as individuals seek better job opportunities.

What is Stage 2 of Zelinsky's Model of Migration?

400

These are four implications of an ageing population.

  • shrinking working-age population
  • shrinking tax base/government revenue decrease
  • decrease in GDP due to reduced investments and savings
  • rising expenses associated with ageing, such as hospitals, aged care infrastructure, pension programs
  • increased age dependency ratio
  • decreased fertility rates
  • changing policies, ie. immigration
500

This is used to determine the concentration or dominance of a particular demographic in a region in comparison to a larger region.

What is a location quotient?

500

Name three regions of the world that are currently in Stage 5 of the demographic transition.

What is Japan, Italy, France, Germany, Australia

500

A population pyramid with a high age dependency ratio of people over 65 years.

What is a constrictive population pyramid?

500

This is the difference between an ethnic enclave and a ghetto.

An ethnic enclave is a community where members of a specific ethnic group choose to live together to preserve their cultural identity, while a ghetto is an area where a minority group is forced to live under impoverished conditions.

500

These are four implications on places of origin due to rural urban migration.

  • declining populations
  • increased age dependency ratio
  • changes in household structure
  • gender imbalances
  • decrease in employment opportunities
  • loss of labour force
  • decline in agricultural production
  • decline in workforce
  • yield gap vs yield potential
  • decrease in services
  • decrease in housing market