Geography pop test

Question 0

What are some inaccuracies of data collections from a census?

Answer 0

• homelessness
• fear of entering slums/crime-ridden areas
• isolation
• confusion(person may be away)
• privacy issues
• reputation
• interpretation of questions and data

Question 1

What is a Census and what info is collected by one?

Answer 1

-A collection of data about a population
•population 
•religion
•language 
•education 
•household income 
•nationality 
•gender 
•age
•marital status 
•possessions 
•occupation 
•home ownership

Question 2

What are some problems that result from inaccurate date collection of a census?

Answer 2

• unfair political representation
• unfair levels of funding
• lack of funding for homelessness
• faulty economic policies
• difficultly in comparing nations

Question 3

How do you calculate the rate of natural increase?

-find the RNI of Canada is its crude birth rate is 11 and its crude death rate is 7 (7 deaths for 1000 ppl)

Answer 3

RNI = (Crude birth rate - crude death rate)/ 10

Canada’s RNI = (11-4)/10 = 0.4%

Question 4

How do you calculate population growth Rate

-calculate it for Canada if it’s RNI is 0.4% and its net migration(per 1000 people) is 7/1000

Answer 4

(Natural increase per 1000 people + net migration per 1000 people)/10

Canada: (4+7)/10 = 1.1%

*net migration = immigrants-emigrants

Question 5

What are factors that affect population change?

Answer 5

• immigration
• emigration
• births
• deaths

*refugees, wars, diseases

Question 6

Lost some countries that refugees often come from and often go to

Answer 6

Major source countries: DRC, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria
Major host countries: China, Germany, Pakistan, Jordan, Chad

Question 7

What is a refugee

Answer 7

People who flee their home countries not to seek better opportunities but to survive

Question 8

What are push/pull factors?

Answer 8

Pull factor: something that draws a person into/to live in a country such as free health care, good education, peace

Push Factor: something that draws a person out of a country such as war, famine/drought, poor education, bad living conditions

Question 9

What is a brain drain? And why does it occur?

Answer 9

Refers to educated people leaving an area to seek employment, usually with higher pay.

ex. Doctors/nurses/teachers leaving to go elsewhere
- occurs usually when the government spends less on specific research/pay for health providers

Question 10

Define: 
•fertility 
•total fertility rate 
•doubling time
•replacement level

Answer 10

Fertility- the ability to produce offspring

Replacement level-for a country to maintain its level of population if no migration were to take place, a certain fertility rate must take place

Total fertility rate- the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime

Doubling time- the number of years it would take for a country’s population to double

Question 11

What are things that cause high birth rates(high fertility) or low birth rates(low fertility)?

Answer 11

High birth rates/fertility

• high infant mortality
• families need children to help
• desire for boys
• religion beliefs
• early marriage
• lack of education
• lack of contraceptives
• machismo(male pride to have many kids)

Low birth rates/fertility rate:

• more education
• later marrying age
• more women working better jobs
• better health care(lower infant mortality/ access to contraceptives)
• high costs in certain countries
• senior care