Population Change

A test on the whole syllabus

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Exponential population growth rate, what is it?
Faster and faster
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Natural Increase
Birth rate higher than death rate
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Natural decrease
Death rate higher than birth rate
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What occurs at stage 3
Birth rate is high and fluctuating and so is death rate, while pop growth is zero and a low and steady popualtion size
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Why is birth rate high in countries?
NO contaception, high infant mortality rate so lots of babies needed, agricultulturally based economy, lots of kids needed to work the land.
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Give 2 social impacts of rapid population growth.
Overpopulation means housing is scarce so more people are forced to live in houses without clean water and proper sewage systems, this leads to an increase in disease. Children are forced to work in order to provide for large families, so they don
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Card 2

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Natural Increase

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Birth rate higher than death rate

Card 3

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Natural decrease

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Card 4

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What occurs at stage 3

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Card 5

Front

Why is birth rate high in countries?

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