Pop Distribution
What is it called when a place has a population of less than 200 people? (hint: smaller than a village)
A Hamlet
What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
Immigration is the arrival of people into an area/country to live. Emigration is the departure of people from an area or country to live elsewhere.
The rate of death for infants less than one year old.
What does GDP stand for?
Gross Domestic Product
What does NGO stand for?
Non-Governmental Organization
What are the 3 types of population distributions?
1) scattered population
2) clustered population
3) linear population
How is net migration calculated?
Immigration - Emigration = Net migration
Is the RATE (the speed at which it is happening) of world population growth expected to increase or decrease in the future?
Decrease. Death rates have gotten lower as countries have become more developed. Birth rates are also lowering as well.
What disease has caused the deaths of large numbers of adults in many African countries and has lowered the country's life expectancy to 40 or less? (hint: it was considered an epidemic and has affected more than 20 million people)
AIDS
What type of aid is given by the government of one country directly to another?
Bilateral Aid
This type of population pattern occurs when natural and human made routes cause settlements. An example of this type of population pattern is along the Nile in Egypt.
Linear Population
Give an example of a technology that affected a population by allowing people to make environments more livable.
Ex. Irrigation systems in the California desert allow dry but fertile soil to produce crops.
What is the name of the revolution that caused changes in animal breeding, crop rotation, and the use of simple farm machinery to increase food production between 1650-1800.
Agricultural Revolution
What is the name of the tool that is a comparison of countries that measures health, education, and wealth of each nation's citizens life expectancy, literacy, and standard of living?
Human Development Index
Define multilateral aid.
What are the causes of a scattered population distribution?
Scattered population occurs where resources are limited and can support only small number of people.
What is an example of a government policy that affected population?
Ex. China's One Child Policy was used to decrease the country's birth rate and stop the rapid increase of their population.
List an important invention during the Industrial Revolution (1750-1900) that was used to produce large quantities of factory made goods.
Industrial- inventions such as steam-powered machinery used to produce large quantities of factory-made goods.
In many countries with low literacy rates, girls don't have access to education. Explain how this relates to increased birth rates in those countries.
When girls don't have access to education, they are married off young as they cannot support themselves financially. They begin having children very young and often have many children because they are not education on birth control methods or family planning.
Define Tied Aid
Economic aid that has conditions on where and how it must be used. Ex. money needed to help fight AIDS in Africa may only be given if that money is used to buy the necessary drugs from the donor country.
Does Australia have high, medium, or low population density? Explain why.
Australia has low population density because vast areas of Australia's interior desert are completely uninhabited or support only tiny populations. Most of the north is tropical rainforest where few people live. Australians largely occupy only the eastern edge and the southern corners of the continent. Five cities alone hold half of Australia's population.
List 2 of the most favorable environments and 2 of the least favorable environments.
most favorable: fertile agricultural land, abundant natural resources, water - coastline and rivers, city sites
least favorable: mountains and infertile soils, scarce natural resources, extreme climate conditions (desert, polar), isolated locations
Name and describe one of the effects of the "population boom".
-baby boomers helped drive economic growth, but are also introducing greater numbers into the health care system as they age.
-natural spaces are being cleared to accommodate more people (ex. rainforests being cut down).
-has put great pressure on food supply, especially in drier climates such as northern and southern Africa.
Name 4 countries with literacy rates above 95%.
Canada, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, most European countries, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Chile
Define "appropriate technology" and give me one specific example.
Appropriate technology is suited to the environmental, cultural, or economic situation it is intended for.
Ex. solar power, cycle trailers, biogas cooking.