Population Geography
What is population geography's main focus?
Studying how people's lives change
What does doubling time mean?
The estimated time it takes for a population to double in size
What is immigration?
For someone to enter and live in a new place (usually a different country).
What is a megalopolis?
a huge city or cluster of cities
Japan
Tokyo
What is migration?
The movement of people from one place to another
How do population pyramids show information about a country?
By age and gender
What are push and pull factors?
Pull Factors: Positive things that attract people to a new place.
Push Factors: Negative things that force people to migrate.
What percentage of the world’s population now lives in cities?
More than half, or over 50%
Egypt
Cairo
Which two factors directly affect population growth?
Birth and Death Rates
What does "negative population growth" mean?
When birth rates are lower than death rates
What is brain drain?
When professionals leave their countries for better opportunities in other countries or places.
What is urbanization?
People moving from rural villages to cities and making the city grow.
Honduras
Tegucigalpa
What does "Population Density" mean?
How people are concentrated in the planet
Can immigration benefit a country with a declining population? (Yes or No?)
Yes! By helping to stabilize the economy and labor force
What is cultural diffusion?
When people migrate and spread new ideas to different parts of the world
What is a Ghost Town?
Abandoned small towns that once had only 1 type of industry. (For example: A town that is only working to find gold in nearby mines).
Australia
Canberra
Which main tool is used to study population patterns and growth?
Census Interviews
What is expected to happen to the global population growth rate after the year 2100?
It will decline
Based on 2021 data, which country received the highest amount of remittances?
India!
Name the 3 things places needed to have for early cities to be formed:
1) Food
2) Water
3) Security
Poland
Warsaw