Geography- Population

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Population Structure
The breakdown of a country's population into groups defined by age and sex
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Death Rate (DR)
The number of deaths per 1000 per year
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Birth Rate (BR)
The number of live births per 1000 per year
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Infant Mortality
A measure of the number of infants dying under the age of 1, number of deaths per 1000 births
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Natural Increase
When the number of births exceed the number of deaths so there is an increase in the population
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Natural Decrease
When the death rate exceeds the birth rate causing the population to go down
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Dependency Ratio
Shows how many young people (u16) and older people (+64) depend on people of a working age
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Life expenctancy
The average age the population is expected to live to
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Optimum Population
The population at which the quality of life of the peopleof a country is the highest possible at a given level of technological development
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Overpopulation
When any increase in population reduces the average quality of the life of the population
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Underpopulation
When an increase in population could increase the average quality of life
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Famine
A time when there is so little food that many people starve
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Starvation
The state of extreme hunger resulting from a lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
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Studenification
When large family houses become too expensive to run so the houses are subdivided and let out to students
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Gentrification
Spontaneous and unplanned change by which individual families buy run down properties and improve them
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Conourbation
A continuos area that grows and spreads and absorbs other towns and cities
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Infilling
The use of open space to build houses within a conourbation that is often close to where a green belt restricts
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Brownfield Sites
sites that have been built on before but have come avaliable for new building because of demolition
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Social Welfare
The wellbeing of communities, the acess people have to opportunities, housing, services
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Fertility Rate
The average number of children will have between the ages of 15-44
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Migration Rate
The difference between the number of people who migrate in and the number of people who migrate out per 100 000 per year
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Population density
The number of people per kilometre squared
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Characteristics of Stage 1 in the DTM
Low population, High Birth Rate, High Death Rate
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Characteristics of Stage 2 in the DTM
Rising population, High Birth Rate, lowering Death rates
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Characteristics of Stage 3 in the DTM
Rising population, Deacresing Birth Rate, Plateau Death Rate
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Characteristics of Stage 4 in the DTM
High population, low Birth and Death rates
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Characteristics of Stage 5 in the DTM
Declining population, Birth rate lower than Death rate
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Card 2

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The number of deaths per 1000 per year

Back

Death Rate (DR)

Card 3

Front

The number of live births per 1000 per year

Back

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Card 4

Front

A measure of the number of infants dying under the age of 1, number of deaths per 1000 births

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

When the number of births exceed the number of deaths so there is an increase in the population

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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Mr A Gibson

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25 cards to help you learn and be tested on the key terms relating to population.

Tomaz

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