Geography Questions
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population pyramid
growth rate
demographic transition model
dependency ratio
infant mortality rate
death rate
mortality rate
birth rate
crude birth rate
literacy rate
population density
migration
immigration
emigration
developing nation
developed nation
first world country
second world country
third world country
standard of living
want
need
life expectancy
multilateral aid
bilateral aid
humanitarian aid
development aid
infrastructure
GDP
GNP
per capita
population distribution
UN HDI
UN PQLI
index
aid
tied aid
CIDA
NGO
ozone layer
depletion
CFC
global warming
climate change
Kyoto Protocol
carbon dioxide
malnourishment
nutrition
subsistence farming
methane
nitrous oxide
mitigate
demographics
demography
urbanization
urban
rural
amenities
arable land
60. What kinds of things does the study of
demography include?
61. How many people live on earth?
62. What are the three ways that population of a
country can change?
63. What is the formula for population change?
64. What is the formula for crude birth rate?
65. What is the formula for rate of natural increase?
66. What is the formula for net migration rate?
67. What are characteristics of Stage 1 of the
Demographic Transition Model?
68. Why do people have so many children in Stage 1
of the Demographic Transition Model?
69. What does the population pyramid look like in
Stage 1 of the Demographic Transition Model?
70. What is the mortality rate so high in Stage 1 of the
Demographic Transition Model?
71. What are characteristics of Stage 2 of the
Demographic Transition Model?
72. What does the population pyramid look like for
Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model?
73. Draw the Demographic Transition Model?
74. What are characteristics of Demographic
Transition Model Stage 3?
75. What are characteristics of Demographic
Transition Model Stage 4?
76. How does education affect the birth rate?
77. What is working-age population?
78. What does it mean if a population pyramid is
contracting?
79. What factors affect population density?
80. Why do so many people live near the water?
81. What are the three kinds of aid?
82. What is the best way to provide food aid? Why?
83. What is a microloan? Why is it a good thing?
84. What is grassroots aid?
85. What is the job of the Red Cross?
86. What is the job of the WHO?
87. Why are developing nations in debt to developed
nations?
88. Why are developing nations so poor?
89. What are some reasons why a developed country
might give aid to a developing country?
90. Why do some countries prefer tied aid over untied
aid?
91. What are some problems with giving aid?
92. Why is it difficult to compare standards of living
between countries?
93. Why are indexes better at comparing countries
than just single measures?
94. What are factors that cause disease?
95. Why do the tropics have higher rates of disease
than temperate climates?
96. Why is low literacy a problem?
97. What is nutrition?
98. Why is good nutrition so important?
99. What does your body need to get from food for it
to survive?
100. What factors lead to urbanization
101. Explain push-pull factors.
102. What are the major environmental impacts of
urbanization?
103. Why do cities and farms compete for arable land?
104. What are the main causes of CO2 in the
atmosphere?
105. What are the main causes of methane in the
atmosphere?
106. How can we stop climate change?
107. What might happen if we don’t stop climate
change?
108. How has the world been trying to solve this
problem?
109. Why is there still debate about the science of
climate change?
110. What happened at the Copenhagen Conference?