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1
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What factors affect population density (the number of people living in a certain area)?

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  • country size - number of jobs - resources - nateral occurrences - physical factors
2
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What is the death rate?

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The number of deaths a year per 1000 people

3
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What is birth rate?

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The number of births a year per 1000 people

4
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What is nateral decrease?

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A fall in the population caused by lower birth rate than death rate

5
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What is nateral increase?

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A rise in the population caused by lower death rate than birth rate

6
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What is natural change?

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a change in population not caused by migration

7
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What are the causes of population change?

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  • Urbanisation - Education - Empowerment of women - change in agriculture
8
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What are the 5 stages of the demographic transition model?

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High fluctuating (tribes), Early expanding (afghanistan), Late expanding (Brazil), low fluctuating (USA/UK), natural decrease (germany)

9
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What is the dependency ratio?

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number of dependent people / number of independent people

10
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What are the impacts of an ageing population?

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positives:
- contribute to economy
- voluntary work / looking after children
negatives:
- need expensive services
- expensive healthcare

11
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What is a push factor (+ example)

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the reasons people leave an area.

- war - high crime rate - poverty

12
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What is a pull factor (+ example)

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the reasons people move to a particular place

- high standard of living - better services - job availibility

13
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What are the benefits and drawbacks for the source country in migration?

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\+ less stress on services 
\+ remittances (money sent back)
\+ lower unemployment 
- loss of skilled workers/ smaller workforce
- less tax
14
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What are the benefits and drawbacks for the recipient country in migration?

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+ increased workforce + skilled workers
+ cultural diversity
- social tension
- new methods/services needed

15
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What is global population?

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the number of people on the planet

16
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What is an example of stage 1 (high fluctuating)

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tribes

17
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What is an example of stage 2 (early expanding)

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afghanistan

18
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What is an example of stage 3 (late expanding)

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brazil

19
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What is an example of stage 4 (low fluctuating)

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USA/UK

20
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What is an example of stage 5 (natural decrease)

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Germany

21
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How does urbanisation cause population change?

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  • impacts birth and death rates

- increased access to medical care decrease in infant mortality and deaths

22
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How does education cause population change?

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  • family planning education reduces family sizes

- enables career choices for more skilled jobs improving quality of life

23
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How does agricultural changes cause population change?

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  • not as much child labour because new machinery resulting in smaller families
  • increased supply of food reduces famine deaths
24
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How does empowerment of women cause population change?

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  • more adoption and abortions

- university and work reduce the number of children

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Stage 5

30
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How can populatipon decline impact on economic development?

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reduces the workforce and reduces the amount of tax payers meaning the economy has less money

31
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solutions to ageing populations: raising retirement age (sustainable)

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  • means they pay tax longer + the government do not have to pay their pension
  • people may not want to work longer
32
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solutions to ageing populations: raising taxes (sustainable)

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  • gives more money to pay for elderly peoples pensions

- would not have good political effects

33
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solutions to ageing populations: encouraging immigration of young workers (not sustainable)

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  • pay taxes + increase the work force
34
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solutions to ageing populations: encouraging large families with cash incentives (not sustainable)

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  • the population would have more young workers

- the population may become too bif

35
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What are the positive impacts of migration for the source country?

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  • more jobs for remaining people
  • less services/care costs
  • more oppurtunities
36
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What are the positive impacts of migration for the receiving country?

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  • larger workforce
  • greater culture diversity
  • cheaper workforce
  • more people of working age + more skills
  • all jobs are filled
37
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What are the negative impacts of migration for the source country?

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  • fewer tax payers
  • high dependency
  • lack of skills
38
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What are the negative impacts of migration for the receiving country?

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  • higher care costs
  • social tension
  • stress on services
  • not enough housing
  • food/supply issues
  • language barriers
39
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What problems does migration to the EU cause?

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  • social tension
  • decreased tourism
  • providing food and shelter costs a lot of money
40
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exponential population growth

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as the population has got larger the growth is faster.