The cards Question What is the birth rate? Tap to flip Answer The number of live births per 1,000 people per year. Question What is the death rate? Tap to flip Answer The number of deaths per 1,000 people per year. Question What is natural increase? Tap to flip Answer When the birth rate is higher than the death rate over a period of time. Question What is natural decrease? Tap to flip Answer When the death rate is higher than the birth rate over a period of time. Question Since when has the world's population increased most rapidly? Tap to flip Answer Since the 1800s. Question What is population density? Tap to flip Answer The number of people living in a defined area, e.g. 300 people per square kilometre. Question What does a sparse population mean? Tap to flip Answer An area has few people relative to its size, as in rural areas. Question What does a dense population mean? Tap to flip Answer An area has a large number of people relative to its size, as in cities. Question In population geography, what does distribution mean? Tap to flip Answer How people are spread out across a geographic area. Question Is the world's population spread evenly? Tap to flip Answer No. Population is unevenly spread across the world. Question What two kinds of factors can affect population density? Tap to flip Answer Human and physical factors. Question What do maps of the world's 'human footprint' show? Tap to flip Answer Where people live and which places have been impacted by humans. Question What is relief? Tap to flip Answer The height and shape of land surfaces. Question How does mountainous topography affect where people live in the UK? Tap to flip Answer Fewer people live in mountainous areas. Question What does a population pyramid show? Tap to flip Answer The age and gender distribution of a population, e.g. of a country. Question On a population pyramid, what does a wide base show? Tap to flip Answer A high birth rate. Question On a population pyramid, what does a taller pyramid show? Tap to flip Answer A greater life expectancy. Question On a population pyramid, what do bulges show? Tap to flip Answer Years when there was a baby boom. Question Are all population pyramids pyramid-shaped? Tap to flip Answer No. Some are more rectangular or even inverted, reflecting different population structures. Question What is life expectancy? Tap to flip Answer The average number of years a person is expected to live. Question What is a census? Tap to flip Answer The official collection of data about a whole population. Question Can a GIS show more than one set of data? Tap to flip Answer Yes. It can show multiple layers of data as well as change over time. Question What is migration? Tap to flip Answer Moving from one place to another with the intention of staying there. Question Is migration always permanent? Tap to flip Answer No. Migration can be permanent or temporary. Question What is a pull factor? Give one example. Tap to flip Answer A reason attracting people to a new place, e.g. more jobs, better living conditions or better services. Question Give one category of migrant. Tap to flip Answer e.g. economic migrants, refugees or asylum seekers. Question Are all migrants refugees? Tap to flip Answer No. Some move for economic or educational reasons. Question What are remittances? Tap to flip Answer Payments migrants send to support their families in the country they came from. Question Give one benefit migration can bring to a country. Tap to flip Answer e.g. skills and expertise for the jobs market, economic benefits or a more diverse society. Question In geography, what is diversity? Tap to flip Answer The variety of human, physical or cultural characteristics in a geographical area. Question What is culture? Tap to flip Answer A way of life, customs and behaviours that a group of people share. Question Give one higher income country with an ageing population. Tap to flip Answer e.g. the UK, Germany or Japan. Question An ageing population means the government has to invest more in which two areas? Tap to flip Answer Pensions and healthcare. Question What is a pension? Tap to flip Answer A regular payment made during retirement from an investment fund. Question Do all countries have ageing populations? Tap to flip Answer No. Ageing populations are more common in higher income nations with longer life expectancies. Question What is overpopulation? Tap to flip Answer When there are not enough resources to meet the needs of the population. Question What is underpopulation? Tap to flip Answer When there are not enough people for the resources available. Question Which policy did China introduce after its population grew rapidly in the twentieth century? Tap to flip Answer The One Child Policy. Question Which country's government felt it was underpopulated after the Second World War and encouraged people to live there? Tap to flip Answer Australia. Question In geography, what is a resource? Tap to flip Answer Anything that can be used for a human need. Question Is the world's population expected to increase equally everywhere? Tap to flip Answer No. It is expected to increase in some parts of the world and decrease in others. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage Key stage 3 (Years 7–9) Course KS3 Geography Unit Population: where do people live? England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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Show the other sources (10) Primary source Population challenges: overpopulation and underpopulation (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The future of the world's population (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Population density (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source GIS: Analysing the distribution of the world's population (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The population of the UK (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Population structure (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source GIS: Analysing the population of the UK (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Migration around the world (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Migration in the UK (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Diversity and change in the local area (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Found a mistake? Write to support@flashfeed.app .
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