Vocabulary
The average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.
What is Total Fertility Rate (TFR)?
A narrow base on a population pyramid indicates low ______ rates.
→ What are birth rates?
Most developed countries are in this stage with low birth and low death rates.
What is Stage 4?
Countries may increase this to help fill labor shortages caused by aging populations.
What is immigration?
Thomas Malthus argued that population grows at this type of rate.
What is geometric (exponential)?
The ratio of dependents to working-age population.
What is dependency ratio?
A wide top of a pyramid shows high ______.
→ What is life expectancy?
In Stage 5, birth rates are lower than death rates, causing population to do this.
What is decline?
Job opportunities are considered this type of migration factor.
What is a pull factor?
Malthus believed food supply grows at this type of rate.
→ What is arithmetic (linear)?
The average number of years a person is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
Stage 4 and 5 pyramid is most common in this type of country.
→ What is a developed country?
A major economic consequence of Stage 5 is a shrinking ______.
What is workforce (or labor force)?
One positive consequence of migration in developed countries is a larger ______.
What is workforce (or labor force)?
According to Malthus, when population outgrows food supply, this will occur.
What is a crisis (famine, starvation, population crash)?
Policies that encourage people to have more children.
What is pronatalism?
Countries with shrinking populations often have this type of pyramid shape.
What is constrictive (or inverted/UPSIDE DOWN) pyramid?
One political response to shrinking populations is implementing this type of policy to increase births.
→ What are pro-natalist policies?
When skilled workers leave a country for better opportunities elsewhere, it is called this.
→ What is brain drain?
One reason Malthus was incorrect was the development of this agricultural advancement.
What is the Green Revolution?
The stage of the DTM where population may decline due to very low birth rates.
What is Stage 5?
Population pyramids are used to predict future economic needs such as schools or ______
What are elderly (or healthcare) services?
A high dependency ratio means fewer workers must support more ______.
What are dependents (elderly)?
People moving from rural Mexico to cities like Dallas or Chicago in this country show WHICH Ravenstein’s law of migration.
rural-to-urban pattern.
The maximum population an area can sustainably support is called this.
What is carrying capacity?