Population Vocabulary
What country is considered as the most populous country in the world today?
India
What is the name of the small country between Spain and France?
Andorra
What is the major religion of Portugal?
Roman Catholic
What is Spain's capital?
Madrid
What does LDC and MDC stands for?
Least Developed Country
More Developed Country
Why do 80% of our population live in the LDCs
-Easy to afford (cheap)
-Too many children and can't afford health insurance
-Others
What city is the largest seaport and industrial center in Spain?
Barcelona
What 2 island groups are also part of Portugal?
Azores
Madeira
What is the name of this mountain range that divides Spain and France?
Pyrenees Mountains
What peninsula are the countries of Spain and Portugal located on?
Iberian Peninsula
Number of people divided by total land area.
Arithmetic Density
What type of government does Spain have?
Parliamentary Monarchy
What is the Portugal major export?
Cork
What is Portugal's capital?
Lisbon
A disease that affects very large numbers of people, often at a global level such as Black Death or COVID19.
Pandemic
Number of farmers per unit of arable land - mechanization
Agricultural Density
What are 2 of the 3 climate types in Spain?
Mediterranean Climate
Continental Climate
Maritime
Portugal major language is Portuguese, which country has the largest population of Portuguese?
Brazil
Name of this river goes through Portugal's capital.
Tagus River
Who wrote 1789 An Essay on the Principle of Population and predicted that population grew exponentially while food grew arithmetically.
Thomas Malthus
A disease that affects a more local region acutely such as the flu.
Epidemic
Lost 2 countries during Spanish American War. Name one of two country.
Cuba
Philippines
What type of government does Portugal have?
Democratic Republic
Christopher Columbus left this city to go on this voyager. (Name city and country).
Seville, Spain
What country has the lowest per capita G.D.P. in Western Europe which makes them the poorest country in Western Europe?
Portugal