Population and Migration

Question 1

Define Birth Rate

Answer 1

number of babies born
per 1000 people
per year

Question 2

Define Death Rates

Answer 2

number of deaths
per 1000 people
per year

Question 3

What is Natural Change

Answer 3

difference between the birth rate and the death rate

Question 4

What is Natural increase

Answer 4

Birth rate is higher than death rate

Question 5

What is natural decrease

Answer 5

Natural Decrease is when death rate is higher than birth rate

Question 6

What does Narrow Base Mean in a population pyramid?

Answer 6

Low BR

Question 7

What does a Wide top mean in a population pyramid?

Answer 7

High life expectency

Question 8

What do straight sides mean in a population pyramid?

Answer 8

low death rate

Question 9

What does a Wider Base mean in a population pyramid?

Answer 9

High birth rate

Question 10

What do steeply sloping sides mean in a population pyramid?

Answer 10

high death rate

Question 11

What does narrow top mean in a population pyramid?

Answer 11

low life expectance

Question 12

What is a SOCIAL Positive from the AGED population

Answer 12

Likely to lead to fall in the crime rate

This means police have more time to fight serious crime rate

Reduces Crime rate

Question 13

What is a SOCIAL Negative from the AGED population

Answer 13

Puts pressure on healthcare systems

Doctors and nurses are stressed

some diseased are not diagnosed properly
leading to low life expectancy

Question 14

What is a ECONOMICAL Negative from the AGED population?

Answer 14

More pensions

increased taxes

Less money to spend on other stuff

Question 15

What is a ECONOMIC positive of Youth population?

Answer 15

creates jobs in education sector,

less unemployment and less unemployment benefits

govt has more money

Question 16

What is a ECONOMICAL negative of Youth Popluation?

Answer 16

High unemployment rates

govt has to spend more money on unemployment benefits

govt has less money to spend on others

Question 17

What are push factors?

Answer 17

Negatives which make you want to leave a place

example crime rates

Question 18

WHat are pull factors?

Answer 18

positives which make you want to move to a place

example better job

Question 19

Who is an economic migrant

Answer 19

a person who moves because they want to increase their chances of getting employment and earn more money

Question 20

Who is a refugee

Answer 20

Someone who is forced to flee their country due to war or persecution and is granted protection by their destination country

Question 21

Challenges Faced by refugee
(Syrian refugee in Greece case study)

Answer 21

Dangerous journey- paying smugglers to take them across the mediterranan(441 people died in 2016 on this journey)

Over crowded camps such as Moira camp, where 20000 people are living in a camp designed for 3000(lack of hygiene)

Threatened to be sent back(allegations that Greece has been abandoning asylum seekers of inflatable rafts)

Question 22

Challenges face by Greece
(Syrian refugee in Greece case study)

Answer 22

Poor economy-18 % unemployment in 2020, and loss of revenue due to COVID, meaning they have limited resources to provide for refugees

Neo Nazi Golden Dawn Party have attacked migrants as they fear migrant will take their jobs and resources

Limited support from other European countries preventing migrants moving up north(20000 stuck in moira camp)

Large number of Refugees(185,000)