geography

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  • How do populations change
    1. Birth
    2. Death
  • Why do we need to measure population growth
    To know how many roads, schools, houses we need
  • Census
    Survey taken by the government for population change
  • Make sure to study the Presentation 8.1 on teams
  • Population distribution
    How many people are spread around
  • Positive and negative settlement factors
    • Positive factors are good things
    • Negative factors are disaster, wars
  • Low population density
    Less population
  • Types of population distribution
    • Sparsely populated
    • Densely populated
  • Birth rates
    Births per 1000 per year
  • Death rates
    Deaths per 1000 per year
  • Natural increase
    Birth rate or decrease death rate
  • Stages of Demographic Transition Model
    1. Stage 1: Both high
    2. Stage 2: Birth still high, death starts to get low
    3. Stage 3: Death low, birth rate fall
    4. Stage 4: Death low, birth low
    5. Stage 5: Death low, birth very low
  • Demographic Transition Model
    5 stages of population change
  • Population pyramid
    Shows age and gender
  • Be able to read and analyse a population pyramid
  • Check the presentation names 8.3 and 8.4 population structure
  • Underpopulation
    Low population
  • Why underpopulation is bad

    Wrong resources are being used
  • Overpopulation
    High population
  • Why overpopulation is bad

    Wrong resources are being used
  • China's one-child policy
    • Caused overpopulation, then underpopulation
  • Check the presentation named 8.3 and 8.4 population structure
  • Immigration
    Moving to a separate country
  • Emigration
    Permanently moving from a country
  • Pull factors
    • Economic, better jobs
  • Push factors
    • No paid jobs, country that pushes you out
  • How do populations change
    1. Birth
    2. Death
  • Why do we need to measure population growth
  • Census
    Survey taken by the government for population change
  • Make sure to study the Presentation 8.1 on teams
  • Population distribution
    How many people are spread around
  • Positive and negative settlement factors
    • Positive factors are good things
    • Negative factors are disaster, wars
  • Low population density
    Less population
  • Types of population distribution
    • Sparsely populated
    • Densely populated
  • Birth rate
    Births per 1000 per year
  • Death rate
    Deaths per 1000 per year
  • Natural increase
    Birth rate or decrease death rate
  • Stages of Demographic Transition Model
    1. Stage 1: Both high
    2. Stage 2: Birth still high, death starts to get low
    3. Stage 3: Death low, birth rate fall
    4. Stage 4: Death low, birth low
    5. Stage 5: Death low, birth very low
  • Population pyramid
    Shows age and gender
  • Be able to read and analyse a population pyramid