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Chapter 5 Test
Population Change
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Geography
9th Grade
10/06/2008

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How many babies were born and how many people died in 2002?
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137 million born and 56 million died
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How much does the worlds population grow by per decade?
Definition
1 billion people per decade
Term
What does the rate of worldwide growth have to fall to make a real difference?
Definition
below 1%
Term
What is it called when the rate of natural increase is negative?
Definition
Negative population growth
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What is equal to births-deaths?
Definition
Natural increase
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What continent has countries with negative population growth?
Definition
Europe
Term
What is the only thing that can sustain a countries population level when natural increase is negative?
Definition
Immigration
Term
Who's population will begin an initially slow then experience an accelerating decline?
Definition
Japan
Term
The total population of stabilizing and declining countries are dwarfed by what?
Definition
Huge population increases in places such as India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nigeria
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What are worldwide population growth rates doing in the big picture?
Definition
Declining
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How much does the worldwide population continue to grow per year?
Definition
80 million
Term
Economically well off is equal to what?
Definition
Declining
Term
What are not well off economies equal to?
Definition
Rates remain high, these places have massive populations that dwarf decreases in declining areas
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What does the low standing of women equal?
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High growth rates
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Muslim countries in N. Africa and southwest Asia have what type of rates?
Definition
High
Term
What does muslim religion stress?
Definition
Traditional marriage roles of women
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What two countries have growth rates of 3% and higher?
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Saudi Arabia and Jordan
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What is South Asia's population?
Definition
1.4 billion
Term
What is the only country in S.Asia that has a rate of increase lower than world average? and what is its population?
Definition
Sri Lanka; 20 million
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What are the two fastest growing countries in S.Asia? what is their combined population?
Definition
Pakistan and Bangladesh; over 300 million
Term
Where are china's growth rates?
Definition
At or below 1%
Term
What country is approaching negative growth in E.Asia?
Definition
Japan
Term
What country in E.Asia is below global mean?
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Korea
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What is the growth rate of S. America as a whole?
Definition
1.7%
Term
Where do the slowest growing countries lie?
Definition
Economically wealth areas of the world
Term
What are factors that reduce population growth?
Definition
Economic well being, urbanization, education, low marriage, family planning
Term
What are the factors that increase population growth?
Definition
Religion-Roman Catholic, Muslim and Hindu, low income, low urbanization, low education
Term
What does linear growth occur in?
Definition
Uniform amounts
Term
What is the amount of time a population takes to double?
Definition
Doubling Time
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At 2% growth it takes how many years does it take for population to double?
Definition
35 years
Term
What wrote an essay on population and when?
Definition
Thomas Malthus; 1798
Term
What did he argue?
Definition
Population growth is exponential, food production is linear
Term
Why was Malthus was wrong?
Definition
Colonization, migration, more acreage seeds fertilizer, and Britain was a closed system
Term
What is the makeup of population in terms of age, sex, and other properties?
Definition
Population Structure
Term
What do Age Sex Pyramids show?
Definition
% of age group in a 5 year population and % of age group that are male and female
Term
In developing countries what do Age Sex Pyramids look like?
Definition
Christmas trees
Term
What do Age Sex Pyramids look like in developed countries?
Definition
Slightly lopsided vases
Term
In a developed world what is the component of population explosion that will occur?
Definition
Aging
Term
What is the crude birth rate?
Definition
Live births/per 1000 people
Term
Where are 4 places where CBR is high?
Definition
North and Sub-Saharan Africa, SW Asia, S Asia
Term
Where are the 5 places where CBR is low? and what is the lowest?
Definition
Europe (lowest), Australia, North America, China, Japan
Term
What is the Crude Death Rate?
Definition
# of deaths/per 1000 people
Term
What is the measure of the number of children born to women of childbearing age?
Definition
Total Fertility Rate
Term
At what total fertility rate is the population stable without immigration?
Definition
2.1
Term
What has been happening to the total fertility rate?
Definition
They are falling globally, and this may lengthen the world's doubling time
Term
Where are the CDR highest?
Definition
Africa
Term
Where are death rates the highest?
Definition
Africa
Term
What is the number of newborn children who die before their 1st birthday?
Definition
Infant Mortality Rate
Term
What tends to reflect high IMR?
Definition
Crude Death Rate
Term
How many people died during the bubonic plague?
Definition
1/4 of Europeans population
Term
What are the four steps to demographic change?
Definition
1. High Stationary- high fertility, high deaths, little long term growth
2. Early Expanding Stage- high fertility, declining mortality
3. Late Expanding Stage- declining fertility, but low mortality, continued growth
4. Low Stationary Stage- low fertility, low mortality and low growth
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