Population

Question 1

What is demography?

Answer 1

The study of human populations, including size, structure, and changes over time.

Question 2

What is population size?

Answer 2

The total number of people living in a specific area.

Question 3

What is population composition?

Answer 3

The makeup of a population by age, sex, and other characteristics.

Question 4

What is population distribution?

Answer 4

How people are spread across a space (e.g., urban vs rural).

Question 5

What is population change?

Answer 5

Growth or decline in population based on births, deaths, and migration.

Question 6

What is birth rate?

Answer 6

The number of live births per 1,000 people in a year.

Question 7

What is death rate?

Answer 7

The number of deaths per 1,000 people in a year.

Question 8

What is natural increase rate?

Answer 8

Birth rate minus death rate (does not include migration).

Question 9

What is migration?

Answer 9

The movement of people from one place to another.

Question 10

What is fertility rate?

Answer 10

The average number of children a woman is expected to have.

Question 11

What is life expectancy?

Answer 11

The average number of years a person is expected to live.

Question 12

What is age structure?

Answer 12

How a population is divided among different age groups.

Question 13

What is sex ratio?

Answer 13

The number of males compared to females in a population.

Question 14

What is a population pyramid?

Answer 14

A graph that shows the age and sex of a population.

Question 15

What does a wide base in a population pyramid show?

Answer 15

High birth rate and many young people.

Question 16

What does a wide top in a population pyramid show?

Answer 16

Aging population and longer life expectancy.

Question 17

What is an expansive pyramid?

Answer 17

Wide base, narrow top – growing population.

Question 18

What is a stationary pyramid?

Answer 18

Even shape – stable population.

Question 19

What is a constrictive pyramid?

Answer 19

Narrow base, wide top – shrinking population.

Question 20

What is internal migration?

Answer 20

Moving within the same country.

Question 21

What is international migration?

Answer 21

Moving from one country to another.

Question 22

What is voluntary migration?

Answer 22

Choosing to move for better opportunities.

Question 23

What is forced migration?

Answer 23

Being forced to move due to war, disaster, or danger.

Question 24

What is seasonal migration?

Answer 24

Moving based on seasons, often for work.

Question 25

What is circular migration?

Answer 25

Temporary, repeated movement for work or other reasons.

Question 26

What is illegal immigration?

Answer 26

Entering or staying in a country without legal permission.

Question 27

Why do people immigrate illegally?

Answer 27

To escape poverty or danger, or reunite with family.

Question 28

What are push factors?

Answer 28

Reasons people leave a place (e.g., war, poverty).

Question 29

What are pull factors?

Answer 29

Reasons people are drawn to a place (e.g., jobs, safety).

Question 30

What is the epidemiological transition?

Answer 30

A shift from infectious to chronic diseases as main causes of death.

Question 31

What are the stages of the epidemiological transition?

Answer 31

Pestilence/Famine, Receding Pandemics, Degenerative Diseases, Delayed Degenerative, Possible Return of Infectious Diseases.

Question 32

What is Malthusian theory?

Answer 32

Idea that population grows faster than food supply, leading to crisis.

Question 33

What are positive checks in Malthusian theory?

Answer 33

Famine, disease, war – increase death rate.

Question 34

What are preventive checks in Malthusian theory?

Answer 34

Actions to reduce birth rate, like delaying marriage.

Question 35

What is population density?

Answer 35

Number of people per unit of land area.

Question 36

What is physiological density?

Answer 36

Number of people per unit of farmable land.

Question 37

What is clustering?

Answer 37

People living close together in certain areas.

Question 38

What is dispersal?

Answer 38

People spread out evenly across a region.

Question 39

What is census data?

Answer 39

Official information collected about a population, often every 10 years.

Question 40

What is census data used for?

Answer 40

Planning for schools, services, political representation, business decisions.

Question 41

What are challenges with census data?

Answer 41

Undercounting, cost, privacy, data may become outdated.