Population Dynamics

Question 1

Population distribution

Answer 1

how spread out people are across an area

Question 2

Population density

Answer 2

concentration of individuals within a specific area

Question 3

Location factors (Geographic)

Answer 3

Climate, Water, Vulnerabity, Precipitation, Air/soil/land quality/scarcity

Question 4

Location factors (Human)

Answer 4

Jobs, Tourism, Culture

Question 5

Location factors (Industry)

Answer 5

Material, Land, Transport, Market, Power, Labour, Technology

Question 6

Overpopulation factors

Answer 6

poverty, child labour, immigratioin, reduced mortality rates

Question 7

Underpopulation

Answer 7

pandemics, war, low fertility rates, emigration, diseases

Question 8

Anti natalist

Answer 8

encourages more child births to increase population in a country

Question 9

Pro natalist

Answer 9

discourages child births

Question 10

Migration

Answer 10

the movement of people from one place to another

Question 11

Internal (migration)

Answer 11

short distance, usually within same country

Question 12

External (migration)

Answer 12

moving from one country to another

Question 13

Push (factors)

Answer 13

“push” people away from their homes
E.g. war, conflict, drought, famine

Question 14

Pull (factors)

Answer 14

“pull” people into a new home to seek better opportunities
E.g. Employment, higher income, better working/living conditiond, educational opportunities, freedom

Question 15

sparsely populated
(adjective)

Answer 15

describes an area where few people live; e.g. the Australian Outback

Question 16

densely populated

Answer 16

(adjective) describes an area where a lot of people live; e.g. Mumbai

Question 17

population growth

Answer 17

(noun) An increase in population over a period of time.

Question 18

human factors

Answer 18

(noun) factors which influence the rate at which an area may develop, such as economic, social and political factors

Question 19

physical factors

Answer 19

(noun) factors which influence the rate at which an area may develop, such as climate, natural resources or natural hazards

Question 20

immigration

Answer 20

(noun) the process of coming to live permanently in a country that is not your own; the number of people who do this

Question 21

host nation

Answer 21

(noun) the country that immigrants move to after leaving their home countries

Question 22

emigration

Answer 22

(noun) the act of leaving one’s own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad

Question 23

Choropleth Map

Answer 23

(noun) maps, where areas are shaded according to a prearranged key, each shading or colour type representing a range of values

Question 24

origin nation

Answer 24

(noun) country of nationality or of former habitual residence of a person or group of persons who have migrated abroad

Question 25

scale

Answer 25

(noun) the size or level of something, or the amount that something is happening

Question 26

trend

Answer 26

(noun) a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people are behaving

Question 27

pattern

Answer 27

(noun) how events, information or processes are arranged in a given geographic area