Managing Rapid Population Growth

Question 1

What is rapid population growth?

Answer 1

Rapid increase in the number of people in a country.

Question 2

What impacts does rapid population growth have?

Answer 2

Social.
Economic.
Political.

Question 3

Health care and education services cant cope with what?

What impact does this have?

Answer 3

The rapid increase in population.
Meaning not everyone has access to them.
Social impact.

Question 4

Children have to work to support who?

What impact does this have?

Answer 4

Their large families.
They miss out on education.
Social impact.

Question 5

There isn’t enough houses for people, so what happens?

What impact does this have?

Answer 5

People are forced to live in makeshift houses in overcrowded settlements.
Social impact.

Question 6

Overcrowded settlements leads to problems like what?

Answer 6

Health problems.

Houses aren’t connected to sewers, no access to clean water.

Question 7

There are food shortages if the country can’t do what?

What Impact does this have?

Answer 7

Grow or import enough food for the population.

Social impact.

Question 8

There aren’t enough jobs for the number of people in the country so what rises?
What impact does this have?

Answer 8

Unemployment increases.

Economic impact.

Question 9

Why is there an increase in poverty?

What impact does this have?

Answer 9

More people are being born into families that are already poor.
Economic impact.

Question 10

If most of population is young people what does the government focus on?
What impact does this have?

Answer 10

Policies that are important to young people.

Political impact.

Question 11

Name 2 examples of what the government focus on that involves younger people?

Answer 11

Education.

Childcare.

Question 12

If there is fewer older the government doesn’t have to do what?
What impact does this have?

Answer 12

Focus on policies that are important to older people like pensions.
Political impact.

Question 13

The government has to make policies to bring population growth under control this means what?

Answer 13

Social and economic impacts of rapid population growth don’t get any worse.

Question 14

There are different _____ to control rapid population growth.

Answer 14

Strategies.

Question 15

Countries need to ____ rapid population growth and they also need to ____ in a way that’s ______.

Answer 15

Control.
Develop.
Sustainable.

Question 16

Name 2 examples of population policies that are sustainable?

Answer 16

Birth control programmes.

Immigration laws.

Question 17

What do birth control programmes aim to do?

Answer 17

Reduce the birth rate.

Question 18

How do governments help with the birth control programmes?

Answer 18

Putting laws in place.

Help plan and limit pregnancies.

Question 19

What laws do the government put in place for birth control?

Answer 19

How many children a couple is allowed to have.

Question 20

What do governments offer for birth control?

Answer 20

Free contraception.

Sex education.

Question 21

What do immigration laws aim to do?

Answer 21

Control immigration.

Question 22

What can the government do to control immigration?

Answer 22

Limit the number of people that are allowed to immigrate.

Be selective about who they let in.

Question 23

Letting in fewer people of child-bearing age means what?

Answer 23

There will be fewer immigrants having children.