Ch 16: Population Flashcards
What is demography?
Population
What is population?
Total no. of people living in an area
What is population density?
Average no. of people per km2
What is population distribution?
Spread of people in an area
What is birth rate?
No. of births per 1000 per year
What is death rate?
No. of deaths per 1000 per year
What is natural increase?
When births exceed deaths
What is natural decrease?
When deaths exceed births
What is life expectancy?
Low long a person is expected to live
What is mortality rate?
Death rates
What percentage of the worlds population is in Asia?
60%
What is a developing country?
Poor, 3rd world eg. South Sudan
What is a developed country?
Rich, 1st world eg. Ireland
What percentage of the world lives in cities?
60%
What is region?
An area
What is terrain?
Landscape
What is emigration?
Movement out of a country
What is immigration?
Movement into a country
What is colonisation?
When 1 country controls another
What does sparsely populated mean?
Low population
What does densely populated mean?
High population
What is resources?
Things used by people eg. Land
Stage 1 (Name + Explain)
High Fluctuating Stage. High birth and death rates
Stage 2 (Name + Explain)
Early expanding stage. Birth rate remains high but death rate declines
Stage 3 (Name + Explain)
Late Expanding Stage. Pop growth is less because parents are more educated
Stage 4 (Name + Explain)
Low Fluctuating Stage. Wealthy country where parents plan families
Stage 5 (Name + Explain)
Senile stage. Death rate is greater than birth rate
List 6 factors of population change
Food supply, Health, War, Education, War, Women, Tech
What is irrigation?
Supplying dry agricultural land with water through canals
migration
movement of people
individual migration
when a person decides to migrate
organised migration
when people are forced to leave an area
international migration
when a person moves countries
regional migration
when a person moves within the country
rural
moving from countryside to city
push factors
things that push people out of any area
pull factors
things that attract people to an area
barriers to migration
things that stop a person from migrating
refugee
person forced to leave their home for fear of being killed
