Work Session: Listen to the video lesson and write down the answers.


1.What is a population pyramid?

2. What does the horizontal line represent?

3.What does the vertical line represent?

4. What does the base of the pyramid tell us?

5.What does the top part or apex of the pyramid tell us?

6. Which part shows the younger working population?

7. Explain the birth rate and death rate of Haiti.

8. Explain the birth rate and death rates of India.

9. Why does the gap between birth rate and death rate narrower in Venezuela?

10. What type of families are desired in UK?

11. Write down the four factors that age structure pyramids tell us about.

 

1. A population pyramid is -------------------------------that shows the distribution of various ------------------and ---------------------- in a population.

2.The ------------------------is on the left hand side of the pyramid and the females on the --------------------------

3. The ----------------------------is collected by government during a ----------------------

4. Less economically developed countries have a -------------------------------------------

5. Broad base of the pyramid  shows -------------------------------

6. The pyramid gets -------------------to the top showing ------------------------------------

7. Population growth is ---------------in -------------------as the youthful population is high.

8. Civil --------- diseases such as --------and ---------------have contributed to high ----------rate.

9. The population pyramid of UK  has a ---------------shape.

10. The birth rate is -----------------and the death rate is --------------in UK.

11. The three factors that reduce birth rate and death rate are ---------------  ----------------   ---------------------

12. The period of time from 1946 to ---------------is called the -------------------------because many children were born in that period after the  second --------------------

13. The stage five type of pyramid has a bulge in the ------------which shows lower-----------and lower death rate. Thus the population growth -----------------------

14. ----------------has a high life ---------------which is -------------------

15. The countries like Japan where the population is shrinking tends to be  ----------------and highly-----------

Decline,    shrink,   age structure pyramid,   child marriage,  demography,  ratio, gender,  trend, population,   graph,  horizontal line,  vertical line,  X-axis,  Y-axis, carrying capacity,  zero growth of population,  fertility rate,  ecological footprint,  immigration,  natality,  mortality,  statistics, social factors.

1. What factors lead to lower birth rates in countries?

2. What factors lead to higher death rates in countries?

3. Why is there higher birth rates and higher death rates in developing countries like Uganda and Bangladesh?

4. Why is there lower birth rates and lower death rates in countries like UK and Australia?

5. Look at the image and describe the trend of population growth according to the population pyramid of India.

Fill in the gaps using words from the textbook.

1. The ----------------------------------------is a model that explains the change from -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2. The demographic transition is the result of -------------------------------that has led to ------------------------

3. The demographic transition is a -----------------------------process.

4. The first stage is the -------------------------------------------------------- where both ------------------------and birth rates are -------------------

5. Death rates are --------------because of ---------------------- poor ------------------------------ and unreliable ----------------------------and ----------------------supplies.

6. Birth rates were high because people wanted -------------------------or they do not have ------------------------

7. The second stage is the ------------------------------------ where death rates declines as food ----------------------------------------------- and medical care ------------------------------

8. Population growth increased in transition stage because ----------exceeds deaths.

9. The third stage in the -------------------------------is the ------------------------------------------

10. Industrialization increases --------------------------outside the home, particularly for ---------------------

11. Couples may choose to have ------------------------------ and birthrate -----------, closing the gap with death rates.

12. The final stage of ---------------------------------is the -------------------------------------------- where both birth and --------------------------------------to low and stable levels.

13. Japan has already gone through the ------------------------------------which means that many ---------------------------------------------------------------

 

 
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