I have a dream (3º ESO)

Going over: Population

Here you have a link to go over the topic we are studying now. It will be useful to study.

Population: a review
Here something specific about population pyramids in MEDCs, LEDCs and NICs:

http://geographyfieldwork.com/PopulationStructure.htm

And Glossary about this topic:

http://geographyfieldwork.com/GeographyVocabularyGCSEPopulation.htm

The demographic transition model

Some questions:
1) What is the Demographic Transition Model and what is this for?
2) Explain, according to the video why do the Death rate drop so rapidly in Stage
3) Explain in which stage the natural increase is greater and why.
4.-What 3 negative affects might a rapidly increasing population have on a country?
5.- Why is a rapidly decreasing population also a problem?
6.- The demographic transition model shows the interaction between which three variables?
7.- Give 2 possible reasons why the death rate drops rapidly in stage 2 of the demographic transition model
8.- Why is there a population boom during stage 2?
9.- At what point does a country enter stage 4 of the demographic transition model?
10.- What is a population pyramid?
11.- How does the population pyramid divide the country’s population?
12.- What does it show if the bottom of the population pyramid is wide?
13.- What does it show if the top of the population pyramid is thin?
14.- What two tools can we use to analyse a country’s population growth?

UNIT 1: POPULATION DYNAMICS - An outline

Outline Unit 1 by IsabelArranz on Scribd

Population Pyramids

Understanding Population Pyramids from Lina Trullinger

OUTLINE UNIT 3

Outilne Unit 3 POPULATION

7 billion people

First of all, to understand the video completely, you have to take into account that 1 billion in English equals to 1.000.000.000 in Spanish.

KEY WORDS: Births, Deaths, empty, population size, resources,

Now that you´ve watched the video once, watch it twice if necessary and answer the questions:

1.- How many people live now (2011) in the world?
2.- How was the population distributed one thousand years ago?
3.- Fill in the gaps: Now, most people live in ____________, ___________ and ___________________.
4.- When did we reach 1 billion people?
5.- Explain two reasons why people live more time or, in other words, why don´t die so many people as before.
6.- How long does it take to grow from 1 billion to 7 billion people?
7.- How many people is supposed to be in the world by the end of this XXI century?
8.- What three resources are the most important to manage according to the experts?

7 billion

First of all, to understand the video completely, you have to take into account that 1 billion in English equals to 1.000.000.000 in Spanish.

KEY WORDS: Births, Deaths, empty, population size, resources,

Now that you´ve watched the video once, watch it twice if necessary and answer the questions:

1.- How many people live now (2011) in the world?
2.- How was the population distributed one thousand years ago?
3.- Fill in the gaps: Now, most people live in ____________, ___________ and ___________________.
4.- When did we reach 1 billion people?
5.- Explain two reasons why people live more time or, in other words, why don´t die so many people as before.
6.- How long does it take to grow from 1 billion to 7 billion people?
7.- How many people is supposed to be in the world by the end of this XXI century?
8.- What three resources are the most important to manage according to the experts?