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Introduction To Population
What is overpopulation?
What is the best definition for population?
Introduction To Population
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What is the best definition for population?
A group of people that live in the same area at a specific time
Group of people that live in the different spaces
A group of People
A Group
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What is overpopulation?
the state of being extremely poor.
Too many people, not enough resources for all these people
Everyone being called the same name
Having too many toys in one room
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What is a population pyramid ?
A pyramid shows the # of various age groups per gender
Answer not shown
An official count or survey of the population
Shows birth/ death rate
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What would cause a Population Pyramid shaped like this?
A college town
Government incentives to have babies
A huge influx of guest workers
Government provided contraception
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Net migration =
=Birth Rate + Death Rate
= Birth Rate + Death Rates - Migrataion Rate
= (Birth Rate -Death Rate) + (Immigration - Emigration)
= Immigration Rate - Emigration Rate
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What type of population pyramid is this?
Contracting
Expanding
Stationary
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What is the current population of the world?
6 Billion
7 Billion
7.3 Billion
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Push factors are…
reasons people leave their homelands
reasons people stop working
reasons people begin working
reasons people come to a new place
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What is an example of Forced Migration?
Slave Trade
Fruit Pickers
Ms Emma working at NISC
Migrant Farmers
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What is a population density?
Rate limited by the maximum number of offspring
All members of a species living in the same place
How populations grow faster and faster
The number of individuals per unit area or volume
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Which country will have the most rapid population growth?
United States
Mexico
Sweeden
None
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What is the census?
It is a survey of the country's population conducted every 5 years
It is a survey which government use every year to see who lives in an area
It is a survey that occurs every 2 years
It is when Irish people phone the CSO
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Natural Increase is calculated by:
birth rate + death rate
birth rate x death rate
death rate - birth rate
birth rate - death rate
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What is death rate?
The number of deaths per 10 of a population in a year
The number of deaths per 1000 of a population in a year
The number of deaths per 10.000of a population in a year
The number of deaths per 100 of a population in a year
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What's interesting about this population pyramid?
There are more females than males
There are more males than females
There are many babies (0-4)
There are many old people (75+)
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What is international migration
migration between continents
migration between states
migration that occurs between countries
migration between cities
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What limits Population Growth?
natural selection taking place
Resources being used up
Birth rates increasing
none of the above
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What type of population pyramid is this?
Contracting
Expanding
Stationary
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What is the formula for growth rate?
# Births x 1000/ Total Population
Total Population/# Births x 1000
# Births/Total Population x 1000
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What does migration mean?
The movement of people
The movement of people for employment
The movement of people out of an area
The movement of people into an area
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How is population density calculated?
The mathematics dealing w/ properties & manipulation of #'s.
Trying to fit 30 people onto 12 floor tiles.
The population of a country divided by its total land area
The population of a country divided by its arable land area.
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What is population distribution?
Where certain age groups live.
Crowded cities.
Where people live in a country, crowded or spread out.
It is what causes high population density.
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Why would advances in medicine lead to population growth?
Curing deadly diseases allows people to live longer.
Medicine allows mothers to have multiple births (octuplets)
Without medicine humanity would not survive.
Women can't have babies without medical help.
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when crude birth rate = crude death rate it means
zero population growth
population increase
increased population
total fertility rate
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What is emigration?
the movement of people out of a country
the movement of people into a country
the movement of people
the movement of people in a reciprocal directions
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What is immigration?
The action of moving states temporarily.
The action of going on holiday.
The action of walking away from school.
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
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What are the pull factors that explain the high population density?
bad housing.
earthquakes
Good weather and infrastructure.
cold weather.
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What type of population pyramid is this?
Stationary
Contracting
Expanding
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The study of human population growth is called?
Global Warming
Population Size
Populography
Demography
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What is a PULL factor?
a factor that makes people want to live in an area
a factor that makes people leave an area
a factor that makes people go on holidays
a factor that makes people hate an area
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What is an example of population
Long leg spider
Harry Hines
Araneae
Wolf pack
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What factors affect population?
Labor, Land, Entrepreneurship, Capital
Literacy, Life Expactancy, Living Standard
History, Environment, Migration, Policy, Technology
History, Population, Technology, Migration, Government
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What is natural increase?
The amount of deaths per thousand people per year
The amount of babies born per thousand per year
The movement of people from there permanent home to a new location
When the birth rate is higher than the death rate
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Pull factors are…
reasons people leave their homelands
reasons people come to a new place
reasons people begin working
reasons people stop working
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In which pyramid is there rapid growth rate?
C
A
D
B
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Population Density measures the...
Total population divided by the total area
Population size
Number of people in an area
The area of a country and the population
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Negative factors that affect population density
Flat land
Poor water supply
Industry and jobs
Very hot
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What is birth rate?
The number of people born
The number of people born in a week
The number of living people
The number of people born per thousand people per year
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What does infant mortality rate mean?
the number of infant deaths per 1,000 deaths
the number of infant deaths per 100 deaths
the numjber of infant deaths per 10,000 deaths
the number of infant deaths per year
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What is demography?
Study of characteristics of human populations, such as size.
Study of Countries
Study of population
Amount of children being born
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What is the rate of death of children 0-1 years old called?
Adult Mortality Rate
Life Expectancy for children
Infant Mortality Rate
Child Mortality Rate
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Define Net migration.
The amount of births compared to amount of deaths
Difference between people entering and leaving a country.
Increase of life expectancy
People moving in house in a country
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What is shown on a Population Pyramid?
Age & Weight
Age & Gender
Age & Death Rate
Age & Gender preference
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In which pyramid is there slow growth rate?
C
D
B
A
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Overall world population will not decrease immediately because:
Immigration is very high
People are not making an effort to lower birth rates
Death rates are too low
A third of the people in the world are under 15 years of age
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These countries have rapid population growth, but are unable to make economic gains....
Lesser Developed States
Developed countries
Least developed countries
Developing States
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Are wars, revolutions & unemployment push factors or pull factors?
Pull Factors
Push Factors
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All of the following are examples of push factors except...
Lack of religious and political freedom
Natural Disasters
War
Access to high levels of employment
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Which factor causes the highest decrease in death rate ?
the restrict access to health care
education
internal stability in country
access to clean water and sanitation
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What is the rate of death for children 1-5 years old called?
Infant Mortality Rate
Crude death rate for children
Child Mortality Rate
Child Life Expectancy
