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Population Change
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- 1What effect does climate have on population distribution?Sparsely populated areas: Extremely hot or cold climates like the Sahara desert
Densely Populated areas: Temperate climates where the population can grow crops - 2What effect does soil have on Global population distribution?Sparse: Infertile soils where crops cannot be grown
Dense: Fertile soils where crops can grow - 3What effect does history of settlement (resources) have on the global population distribution?Sparse: Few resources for industry
Dense: Many resources for industry such as coal - 4What are the reasons for the changes in birth and death rates?Medical: New treatments, better link between unhealthy living and short life, child inonculations mean less babies
Social: Healthy living conditions, educated women aware of ways to control fertility, average age of marriage risen (less time to have children)
Economic: Children cost a lot of money, poverty
Political: Policies decrease birth rate, LIC's have invested a lot of money into having clean water - 5Describe the physical and human factors that affect the population density in ChinaThe West of the country is sparsely populated as there are the Atai mountains where it is too cold and wet to grow crops, there is also the Gobi Desert where it is too dry to grow crops
The east of the country is densely populated, people live in coastal areas due to good transport links, people live on the fertile floodplains of the rivers such as the Yangtze - 6Describe the physical and human factors that affect the population density in the UK.Sparsely populated in the Highlands of Scotland in this mountainous area it is too wet and cold to grow crops, high population density in Aberdeen because of the oil, dense in south wales due to the range of resources available when the settlements first grew, densely populated along the south coast including Brighton as retired people move here because of the warmer climate
- 7Why did China need to reduce its birth rate?In 1979, a quarter of the world's population lived in China. The government brought in a population policy- couples were allowed to have one child which gave them a number of benefits
- 8What were the incentives and disincentives of the one child policy?Incentives: Cash Bonuses, Free Education, Free Medical Care, Preferential treatment over housing
Disincentives: People were sacked from their jobs if they had more than one child, lost all privileges, people monitored by the granny police, couples had to ask permission to have a child - 9Why did Singapore have to reduce the birth rate?In the late 1980's the government of Singapore realised that the country would not have enough workers. In 1987 they introduced the 'three or more policy'
- 10What were the incentives and disincentives of the three or more policy?Incentives: Parents received a gift of $3000 for their first two children and $6000 for each of their next two children, fathers received three days of paternity leave, mothers allowed three months of maternity leave.
Disincentives: Couples with one or no children only allowed to buy a three-room flat, couples not allowed to choose the school for their child, don't receive financial packages - 11What is the definition of Birth Rate?The number of people born per 1000 of the population in a year
- 12Definition of Death Rate?The number of people who die per 1000 of the population in a year
- 13What is a census?A count of the number of people in a country. It provides statistics about a number of a population characteristics for all the households in a country.
- 14What are the consequences of a youthful population?Greater demand for midwives and hospital care for babies and mothers, greater demand for education services, less demand for pensions, large workforce
- 15What are the consequences of an aging population?Greater need for care homes, less money for education, more houses needed, pension age increase, more jobs in leisure industry
- 16What are the disadvantages of an ageing population in Japan?More people in nursing homes, 'hurry up and die' (fee from government reduced after 100 days) workforce decreasing, less people paying tax to support the pensioners, age of retirement increasing
- 17What are the advantages of Japan's ageing population?More people spending money on luxury goods, greater employment, number of gadgets being developed for the elderly
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- AS - Level (GCSE) Geography Fichas sobre Population Change, creado por Rosie Carver el 20/09/2014.
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