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Geography Exam!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is demography? | It is the study if the population |
| What is globalisation? | How we are expanding, in relation to communication new technology science, transport and industry |
| What are standards of living? | Resources that people can expect to access in their community or society eg clean air, safe water, public transport, high quality of food, medical facilities, educational services and more |
| How do we measure a nation’s standard of living? | •Economic •Social •Demographic •Health •Political indicators |
| What is the human development index | measures poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy. |
| What is population? | It the total number of people in area such as a city, country or continent and any given time |
| What is PQE? | Pattern – Very general Quantification – The actual countries Exception – When something doesn’t follow the pattern |
| What is SHEEP? | Social – Characters of people and society (Gender, Language,) Historical – Elements that have occurred in the past (Colonialism, Planning,) Economic – Factors relating to spending of money (Employment) Environmental –factors related to both natural and |
| What are the UN Millennium Development goals? | To improve shelter, clean water, sanitation, education, poverty, human rights and climactic variability |
| What are human rights? | It is the bare minimum that each human deserves |
| What is the role of an NGO? | To provide assistance for third world countries |
| What are the impacts of global population increase? | Global warming, pressure on fresh water, food shortages, rise of infectious diseases and many more |
| What is population density? | It is how many people are living in a square kilometre |
| What is population distribution? | How much of a population is spread out throughout an area |
| What do population profiles demonstrate? | population profiles demonstrate the age and sex structure of the population of a certain place/region |
| What is important about the age structure of population profiles? | Age groupings in five-year sets, such as 0-4 years and 5-9 years |
| What is important about the sex structure of population profiles? | Women are on the right because they are always right and men are on the left. |
| What are the different shapes of population profiles, and what do these tell us about different populations? | Triangle mean expanding birth rate, a leaf shape means ageing population low birth rate, same on each side is stable, a head and neck shape is fluctuating population, stronger on male side is expanding of young males, and visa versa |
| What is a refugee/asylum seeker? | Asylum seekers are people that attempt to find safety in a foreign country because of war, terrorism, extreme poverty, famine and persecution. |
| What is a displaced person? | Someone who has been removed from their home and no longer has a home. |
| What is a push factor | is if when you have to leave your country because of war, famine or poverty |
| What are the three most common threats to existence? | Drought, poverty and disease |
| What is interesting about the amount of water available to us on the earth? | 1% of fresh water is available today |
| What are the consequences of overuse of water? | Lakes and rivers decreasing in size because they are getting use by too many people |
| What are the two best ways to decrease population? | Make a one child policy or educated people in third world countries about contraception methods to help them understand to slow down on how many children they are having |
| What is a pull factors? | If you get a job in another country you are getting pulled out of your country by choice. |
| Causes of Child Labour | poverty, lack of good educational facilities like school and universities, most families believe that a child is born to them to earn more money for the family. |
| What is the current trend in world population growth? | The global rate of growth has decreased, but there are more people and the population will continue to grow. |
| What is infant mortality rate? | Infant mortality rate is the death rate of children under one year. |
| What are fertility rates? | Fertility rates are the birth rate and the rate of how many people are being born. |
| 29. Why do people move from place to place? How does this movement affect population profiles? | Because they find more positive goals such as land, money, jobs and peace in other areas. This movement may affect population profiles in such a way that particular age groups lower in percentage of population in one area. |
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