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Population Change Flashcards

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What does population distribution mean?

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The way humans are spread out across the world

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Where do most people live?

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-Europe
-South East of Asia
South of North America

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Where don’t people live?

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  • Oceania

- north of Asia

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What does population density mean?

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How many people there are per km2 over the world

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Where is the world densely populated?

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Nigeria, Japan, UK

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Where is the world sparsely populated?

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-Canada, Australia, Russia

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Why would there be a dense population?

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  • flat land
  • jobs
  • fertile soil
  • transport
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Why would there be a sparse population?

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  • no water
  • cold weather
  • lack of jobs shops
  • no flat land
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Why do more people live in east China?

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Lots of farmland, 300mph railways, lots of airports

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Why don’t people live in west China?

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Lots of mountains and deserts, dry land-bad from farming, cold temperature

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Why has the birth rate increased?

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Poor access to contraception, children to earn money for family

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Why is there a low birth rate?

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  • famine
  • contraception
  • women have jobs
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Why is there high death rates?

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  • famine
  • poor health care
  • lack of clean water
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What are the reasons for low death rate?

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  • access to hospitals

- contraception available - no STDs

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What is stage1 like in the demographic model?

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-death and birth rate high as they are the same the population doesn’t increase

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What is stage 2 like in the demographic model?

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-death rate rapidly decreases-better medicines, birth rate stays the same therefore population increases

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What is stage 3 like in the demographic model?

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Birth rate decreases rapidly because of contraception and death rate is gently decreasing, population naturally increase and because the death rate is so low

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What is stage 4 like in the demographic model?

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Birth rate still falling gently and death rate still low, population still gently rising

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What is stage 5 like in the demographic model?

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More developed vesion of stage 4

20
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Why was the one child policy introduced in China?

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  • decrease over population - 2 billion
  • less pollution
  • lack of food
21
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What are some facts about the one child policy?

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  • free medical care for first baby- would have to pay all of this back if they have a second baby-couldn’t pay =prison
  • forced abortions
  • ‘granny’ in each street and will report if women is pregnant
22
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Why do Sinapore want to increase the birth rate?

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-Need more children to group and pay taxes for the elderly

23
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How does singapores birth work?

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Give them money for their children - $4000 for first $6000 2nd
- give them $3000 to pay for medical bills

24
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What are the positive effects if a youthal population in Gamibia in Africa?

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Lots if workers for future - 65% under 25

Provides a growing market for goods and services

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What are the negative effects of a youthal population in Gamibia in Africa?

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  • schools overcrowded to 3000
  • poor nutrition - 1 in 10 die before 5 years old
  • high levels of unemployment- 70% of under 25s have no job
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Where is the case study? What is it about?

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Japan’s ageing population

27
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What are the benefits of the ageing population in Japan?

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New opportunities for technology-robots for elderly

-‘grey boom’ rise in business that cater for elderly

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What are the negative effects of the ageing population in Japan?

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  • immigration is increasing - 200,000 of them are illegally in the country
  • 500,000 people on the waiting list to get into nursing homes
  • taxes rising to support elderly 6:1 in 1990, 4:1 in 2000, 2:1 in 2025

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