Population Pyramid
Population Terms
DTM
Random
Migrations
100
What is going on in the Pyramid
What is Retirement community
100
is a measure of total population relative to land size
What is arithmetic population density
100
Name given to the process that has occurred during the past century, leading to a stabilization of population growth in the more highly developed countries.
What is Demographic Transition Model
100
Which 2 regions of the world has historically had the largest population? Must answer in spatial terms (NSEW)
What is East & South Asia
100
According to this "law", most migrants move relatively short distances. People are more likely to migrate to nearby places than to distant locations & individuals who migrate tend to be relatively young, healthy, and skilled. This selectivity is based on the idea that these individuals are more likely to have the resources and ability to undertake migration.
Ravenstein
200
What is represented in slide 2
College town
200
is a measure of the total population relative to the arable land it contains
What is physiologic population density
200
(Which Stage) = High birth rate and declining death rate leads to population increase, they are said to have demographic momentum because of having a large young population that will reproduce (start of Industrial Revolution, agriculture revolution, better sanitation and medical practice, improvements in foods, colonization, and immigration)
What is Stage 2
200
"The stage of delayed degenerative diseases. The major degenerative causes of death-cardiovascular diseases and cancers. Life expectancy of older people is extended through medical advances" That statement is referring to ... Answer needs name of model and stage.
Stage 4 of Epidemic Transition Model
200
What are the two types of migrations
Voluntary & Forced
300
What can we conclude about the country
poor/LDC
300
is the lack of necessary resources to meet the needs of the population of a defined area
What is Overpopulation
300
High birth rate and VERY high death rate; has little long-term population growth = high human suffering, epidemics and plagues, found during Bubonic plague, famine, destructive wars; common in hunting and gathering societies, no country currently in this stage.
Stage one of DTM
300
This rate typically goes down as access to healthcare and medicine is improved in a country but access to education for women is not improved.
What is Infant Mortality Rate
300
Types of factors that cause migration
Push & Pull factors
400
What phenomenon took place around 50 - 60 years ago according to this Pyramid?
Baby Boom
400
The ability of the land to sustain a certain number of people; the problems of overpopulation exist when this capacity is reached
What is Carrying Capacity
400
In this stage of the DTM society is well balanced for the most part, women are the most educated and most involved in the workforce. Population growth slows or evens out and the country is TYPICALLY a MDC.
What is Stage four
400
What is usually the biggest indicator of lowered birthrates and TFR?
Status of Women (Education level, freedoms etc)
400
Which type of migration and causal factors for the following scenario:
Lucy and Ricky decide to move from NYC to Los Angeles for the career opportunities offered to Ricky.
Voluntary, Economic Pull Factors
500
WHEW WHEW WHEW DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why does it look like this?
500
encourage reproduction by offering tax incentives or other benefits
What is expansive population policies (Pro-Natalist)
500
Name one thing the DTM does not account for in changes in total population over time.
Migration (Immigration & Emigration)
500
In demographic analysis, this term quantifies the burden on the working-age population, which helps assess a nation's economic and social challenges.
Dependency Ratio
500
What improvements in what two types of technologies are affecting the accuracy of Ravensteins' laws and the concept of distance decay?
Transportation & communication technologies (jets & internet).