Population Concepts

Question 1

Define birth rate

Answer 1

The number of babies born per 1000 people per year

Question 2

Define death rate

Answer 2

Number of deaths in a country for every 1000 people per year.

Question 3

Define population growth rate

Answer 3

The percentage that a places population increases showed by the difference between the birth and death rate

Question 4

Define infant

Answer 4

Baby younger than 1 years of age

Question 5

Define mortality.

Answer 5

Death/dying

Question 6

Life expectancy is the _____________ number of years a person in a specific place can _______________ ____ ________

Answer 6

Average. Expect to live.

Question 7

What factors affect life expectancy?

Answer 7

Pollution
Health
Occupation
Nutrition
Education
Housing
Disease

Question 8

Define parasite

Answer 8

An animal or plant that lives in or on another animal or plant

Question 9

What is diarrhoea transmitted by?

Answer 9

Transmitted by unhygienic food and water

Question 10

What is cholera transmitted by?

Answer 10

Unhygienic food and water and lack of personal hygiene

Question 11

What is malaria transmitted by?

Answer 11

Mosquitoes

Question 12

What is TB transmitted by?

Answer 12

Close contact with people who are infected.

Question 13

What is HIV and AIDS transmitted by

Answer 13

Blood and bodily fluids

Question 14

What is the prevention of diarrhoea

Answer 14

Better hygiene

Question 15

Prevention of cholera

Answer 15

Boil water

Question 16

Prevention of malaria

Answer 16

Mosquito nets and insect repellent Short term drugs.

Question 17

Prevention for TB

Answer 17

TB vaccinations

Question 18

Prevention for HIV and AIDS

Answer 18

Avoid unprotected sexual contact and contact with other people’s blood and body fluids

Question 19

What is the treatment for diarrhoea?

Answer 19

Sugar and salt water

Question 20

Treatment for cholera

Answer 20

Medical treatment

Question 21

Treatment for malaria

Answer 21

Medical treatment and possibly hospitalisation

Question 22

Treatment for TB

Answer 22

Strong medicines

Question 23

Treatment for HIV

Answer 23

HIV can be managed with medicines but there is no cure

Question 24

Define pandemic

Answer 24

A disease that has spread throughout the world

Question 25

Define status

Answer 25

Rank or position compared with others.

Question 26

Define income

Answer 26

Money received from wages

Question 27

Define population pyramid

Answer 27

A graph that shows the number of people in an area by their ages and gender

Question 28

What does economic status tell you?

Answer 28

A persons income

Question 29

How do wars affect birth rates

Answer 29

People have fewer children during wars

Wars prevent people from farming and living a normal life

Many people die from hunger and disease

Question 30

Define populous

Answer 30

Full of people

Question 31

Define overpopulation

Answer 31

Too many people for the land to feed properly

Question 32

What factors caused increased food production.

Answer 32

Farmers could produce more food because of mass produced tools

Traders and migrants took the new tools and farming methods to other places in the world

Farmers used farming machines(tractors,planters and harvesters) and fertilisers

The green revolution (a planned effort to improve farming methods and produce better crops to reduce hunger in developing countries

Question 33

What are the scientific developments that helped increase the life expectancy.

Answer 33

Disease control
Infection control
Improved sanitation
Canned and frozen food
Refrigeration

Question 34

What factors of improved health care affect the life expectancy

Answer 34

Immunisation
Cleanliness
Medicines
Surgery
Blood transfusions