geo Flashcards
what are the populations of the following
Canada - 37 mil USA - 322 mill China - 1.4 bill India - 1.3 bill Ontario - 14 mil world - 7.6 bill
what are two global population trends from our trends reading
- Nigeria has the worlds fastest growing population
- By 2024 India will overtake china as the worlds most populated country
The average life expectancy is 81 in Canada, what are the three factors that contribute to our long life expectancy?
Resources, healthcare and safety
what are two ways populations increase and two ways they decrease?
Increase - birth and immigration
Decrease - death and emigration
why do country like Canada and Germany want to keep their populations growing
Because the government will lose money and can’t pay for the services like in Canada free healthcare
What is the population density? What is Canadas? why is it so low?
The population density is population per unit area = TOTAL # OF PEOPLE
-Canadas is 3.7 ppl per km@
Its low because of climate
on an average day in Canada how many more new people are living in our country?
about 923 each day
What does dependency load mean? What percentage of Canadas population make up the dependency load? why is this important for the government to be aware of?
1- portion of population either too young (14 down) or too old (65 up) to work
Canadas is 33% (16% kids 17% seniors)
The government should be aware so they know how many people are working and paying texes
in regards to the settlement of Canada, In which direction was the nation settles and why do you think this case was?
East to west
usually when poeple entered from Europe they entered from the east more than west
under the skilled worker class, how many points does an immigrant applicant need to get accepted into the country? what are three specific examples of how applicants can get points
They need a minimum of 67 points or more
- people with experience in high demanol auccupents, people who can speak both French and English in high proficiency
age between 21 - 44
What are the top three countries immigrants came from to Canada in 2012
china, philipines, India
what are the three main cities immigrants are moving to in Canada and what are 4 reasons why
Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver
- most come from large cities
- lots of jobs
- families already live there
- easier transition w/ people who speak, eat, and practice the same religion
what is a refugee
- fleeing/escaping their country for safety
what are 5 pull and push factors that a nation might have that make people want to leave or enter a nation
pulls
- health care, education, peaceful nation, clean water, quality university and collage
Push
- over populated, lack of jobs, polluted, war, lack of healthcare
what are res schools? how many students attended these schools
- designed to assimilate Canadas native peoples into European(white)
- 150,000 students attended these schools
