Gcse- Population

Question 1

What is distribution?

Answer 1

Describes way in which people are spread across earths surface

Question 2

Describe density-

Answer 2

Number of people living in a given area.

Question 3

How do you find population density?

Answer 3

Population density is found by dividing total population of place by the places area.

Question 4

Characteristics of population growth-

Answer 4

Depends on balance between birth rate and death rate.

Birth rate is average birth a year per thousand people.

Question 5

Whay is natural increase?

Answer 5

When birth rate is higher than the death rate

Question 6

What is natural decrease?

Answer 6

When death rate is higher than the birth rate

Question 7

Why are there large families in MEDCs and what are the effects?

Answer 7

Children help work on land
High infant mortality rates
Religious beliefs forbid birth control
Lack of education means poor family planning
Lack of access to contraception
Large families can enhance reputation of area.

Question 8

Effect of too few U15s in area-

Answer 8

Means replacement rate is being met.
Countries with poor replacement rate face decline in countries population.
Fear in future is that countries like this will have no skilled workers, and there will be closures of shops and schools.

Question 9

Why do countries life expectancy increase?

Answer 9

Improved standards of living.
Improvements in health care
Development of drugs and vaccines
Better diet

Question 10

What are the problems with an ageing population?

Answer 10

Mere demand for pensions, medical care and residential homes.
People providing services are paid by smaller proportion of working people.
Increase in long term illness.

Question 11

Problems facing the elderly-

Answer 11

Have to live alone when partner dies.
Many can’t afford residential homes.
Lengthy waits for operations.
Those living in urban areas face scares from traffic and crime.

Question 12

What is migration?

Answer 12

Movement and change of home.

Can be temporary, seasonal or daily.

Question 13

What are emigrants?

Answer 13

People who leave a country

Question 14

What are immigrants?

Answer 14

Those who arrive in a country

Question 15

What is migration balance?

Answer 15

Difference between number of emigrants and imigrants

Question 16

What is net migration loss?

Answer 16

Countries which loose more people to emigration than immigration.

Question 17

Why may people opt for voluntary migration?

Answer 17

Employment
Trade and economic expansion
Territorial expansion 
To be nearer friends
Better climate

Question 18

Why may people be forced to migrate?

Answer 18

Religion
War
Racial discrimination
Lack of food
Overpopulation

Question 19

Who are refugees?

Answer 19

People who are forced to leave a country

Question 20

Who are asylum seekers

Answer 20

People who leave their home country, and have applied to another country for recognition as a refuge.

Question 21

Who are illegal immigrants?

Answer 21

People who enter a country without personal documents. They also fail to meet legal requirements of country and become part of hidden economy.

Question 22

Who are economic migrants?

Answer 22

People who make a decision to leave their home country knowing they can return.

Question 23

Why may people move from rural areas to urban?

Answer 23

Employment
Family status
Environment status
Social factors