Unit
2 Population
Worksheet One pages 38-44
The following information corresponds to Chapter 2 in your textbook. Fill in the blanks to complete the definition, sentence or
concept. Note: All of the following information in addition to your reading is important, not just the blanks you fill in.
WHERE IN THE WORLD DO PEOPLE LIVE AND WHY?
1. __________________ - the study of population.
2. __________________ - a measure of total population relative to land size
3. Population density assumes an even __________________ of the population over the land.
4. No country has an evenly distributed population, and __________________ __________________
figures do not reflect the emptiness of most of Alaska and the sparseness of population in much of
the West.
Physiological Population Density
5. __________________ __________________ - the number of people per unit area of agriculturally
productive land.
6. Why is the physiological density a better measurement of population density?
7. Fill in the information:
State
Land Area
Population (2006)
Arithmetic Density
Physiologic
Density
Bangladesh
Canada
China
Egypt
India
Japan
Mexico
Russia
Seychelles
United Kingdom
United States
8. Which has the highest Arithmetic Density? Why?
Population Distribution
9. Where do 1/3 of the world’s people live?
10. __________________ __________________ - descriptions of locations on the Earth’s surface
where individuals or groups live.
11. __________________ __________________ - maps where on dot represents a certain number of
a population.
World Population Distribution and Density
12. Where did people historically tend to congregate?
13. Urbanization began in __________________ areas.
14. Where are the 4 largest population clusters located?
15. __________________ - huge urban agglomerations.
Reliability of Population Data
16. The United States performs a __________________ or a count of its population every 10 years. Many
advocacy groups worry about the count because _____________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________.
17. What other agencies collect data on the world’s population?
Unit
2 Population
Worksheet Three pages 44-55
The following information corresponds to Chapter 2 in your textbook. Fill in the blanks to complete the definition, sentence or
concept. Note: All of the following information in addition to your reading is important, not just the blanks you fill in.
WHY DO POPULATIONS RISE OR FALL IN A PARTICULAR PLACE?
1. __________ __________ = in 1798 he published, Essays on the Principle of Population, which
stated that: Human population grows ______________ (2, 4, 8, 16, …), doubling every generation,
whereas …
2. Food production grows ______________ (1, 2, 3, 4, …). The result is that there would be mass
starvation until population growth was checked by wars, epidemics, famines,…
3. His theories were questioned especially around the late 1800s because (1)he did not foresee how
______________ would aid in the exchange of agricultural goods across the world and (2)
anticipate the technological and industrial improvements in ______________.
4. ______-______________ = a revival of enthusiasm for his ideas accompanied the alarming
increase in world growth rates after World War II. With slight modifications, his theories can apply to
today.
Population Growth at World, Regional, National and Local Scales
5. Analysis of population growth and change requires attention to _____________________.
6. _____________________ in one place can be affected rapidly by what is going on in a neighboring
country or at the regional scale.
7. How is the natural increase in a country’s population calculated?
8. What factors are missed when calculating the natural increase in population?
9. What four components are used when calculating demographic change within a territory?
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10. When studying population data across scales and across the world, what must we constantly remind
ourselves?
11. _____________________ - the time it takes a population to double.
12. _____________________ - rapid growth of the world’s population during the past century.
13. _____________________ - the current doubling rate of the world’s population
14. What rate will the population growth rate need to be before population growth is significantly slowed
down?
Population Growth at the Regional and National Scales
15. What areas are experiencing a population growth of 2.5% and higher?
16. Status of Women: Demographers point to the correlation between ________________ and the low
standing of women: where cultural traditions restrict educational and professional opportunities for
women, rates of ____________ tend to be high.
17. ______________________ is the most important geographic region in the population growth rate
picture. The region includes the country that appears destined to overtake
______________________ as the world’s most populous: ______________________.
18. List three countries that are experiencing negative population growth:
19. What are 7 factors that contribute to reduced natural population growth rates?
Population Growth at the Local Scale
20. How did the Indian Government try to control population growth in the 1970s? in 2004?
21. How are most Indian governments trying to control population growth today?
22. What does the example about India demonstrate concerning population growth?
The Demographic Transition in Great Britain
23. The high population growth rates now occurring in many poorer countries are not necessarily
______________________.
24. ______________________ - the difference between the number of births and the number of
deaths.
25. ______________________ - the number of live births per year per thousand people in the
population.
26. ______________________ - the number of deaths per year per thousand people.
27. What caused the population explosion in Great Britain?
28. List and explain the 4 stages of the Population Demographic Transition Model:
Stage One
Stage Two
Stage Three
Stage Four
29. Draw and label the Demographic Transition Model:
Future Population Growth
30. _____________________________________ - the level at which a national population ceases to
grow.
31. In 2004, the United Nations predicted that world population would stabilize at _________ billion in
__________ years
32. Why is it necessary for all agencies reporting population predictions to revise their predictions
periodically?
Unit
2 Population
Worksheet Two pages 55-62
The following information corresponds to Chapter 2 in your textbook. Fill in the blanks to complete the definition, sentence or
concept. Note: All of the following information in addition to your reading is important, not just the blanks you fill in.
WHY DOES POPULATION COMPOSITION MATTER?
1. Maps showing the regional distribution and density of populations tell us about the number of people
in countries or regions, but they cannot reveal what other 2 aspects of those populations?
2. _____________________________________ - structure of a population in terms of age, sex and
other properties such as marital status and education.
3. _____________________________________ - visual representations of the age and sex
composition of a population whereby the percentage of each age group is represented by a
horizontal bar the length of which represents its relationship to the total population.
4. Why does a
population
pyramid for
a poorer
country look
like an
evergreen
tree?
5. Why does a population pyramid for wealthier countries look like a slightly lopsided vase?
Infant Mortality
6. _____________________________________ - a figure that describes the number of babies per
thousand that die within the first year of their lives on a given population.
7. Why does infant mortality reflect the overall health of a society?
Child Mortality
8. _____________________________________ - a figure that describes the number of children per
thousand that die between the first and fifth years of their lives in a given population.
9. Where is the child mortality rate staggeringly high?
10. What is the norm for the child mortality rate?
Life Expectancy
11. _____________________________________ - the number of years on average that someone
may expect to remain alive.
12. __________________________ outlive __________________________ by about _____ years in
Europe and East Asia, _____ years in Sub-Saharan Africa , _____ years in North America and
_____ in South America. In __________________________ today, the difference may be as
much as __________ years.
13.
What has dramatically lowered the life expectancies in Sub-Saharan Africa?
14. Why do life expectancy figures not mean that everyone lives to a certain age?
AIDS
15. AIDS - _______________________________________________________________________
16. Explain AIDS and how it spreads.
17. Why are the full dimensions of the AIDS virus unknown?
18. Where is the AIDS impact the greatest?
19. How has AIDS reshaped population pyramids?
20. What will the effects of AIDS be on African nations?
The Maladies of Longer Life Expectancy
21. _____________________________________ - the afflictions of middle and old age, reflecting
higher life expectancies.
22. List 4 chronic illnesses:
1.
2.
3.
4.
23. What are some possible causes of cancer?
Unit
2 Population
Worksheet Four pages 63-65
The following information corresponds to Chapter 2 in your textbook. Fill in the blanks to complete the definition, sentence or
concept. Note: All of the following information in addition to your reading is important, not just the blanks you fill in.
HOW DO GOVERNMENTS AFFECT POPULATION CHANGE?
1. What are some policies that directly affect the birth rate via laws?
2. _____________________________________ - government policies that encourage large families
and raise the rate of population growth.
3. _____________________________________ - government policies designed to favor one racial
sector over others.
4. _____________________________________ - government policies designed to reduce the rate of
natural increase.
5. What are some examples of restrictive population policies?
Limitations
6. How did Sweden’s government attempt to promote higher fertility rates in the country? What were
the results?
Contradictions
7. What is the contradiction in the areas with the lowest population growth rates? And the fastest?
Unit
2 Population
Worksheet Eight pages 71-74
The following information corresponds to Chapter 3 in your textbook. Fill in the blanks to complete the definition, sentence or
concept. Note: All of the following information in addition to your reading is important, not just the blanks you fill in.
WHAT IS MIGRATION?
1. Movement is inherently _____________________________________.
2. _____________________________________ speeds the diffusion of ideas and innovations; it
intensifies spatial interaction and transforms regions.; an it is often closely linked to environmental
conditions.
3. Movement ranges from ___________________________ to ___________________________. –
from the ___________________________ to once in a ___________________________.
4. All movement involves leaving ___________________________.
5. How do the three types of movement vary?
6. ___________________________ - involves shorter periods away from home and has a closed
route and is repeated annually or seasonally
7. ___________________________ - involves longer periods of time and involves temporary, recurrent
relocation.
8. ___________________________ - involves a degree of permanence and involves a change of
residence intended to be permanent.
Cyclic Movement
9. ___________________________ - the space within which daily activity occurs created by daily
routines through a regular sequence pf short moves within a local area.
10. The ___________________________ of activity space caries across societies.
11. ___________________________ - the journey from home to work and home again which may
involve several modes of transportation.
12. Advances in ___________________________ have expanded daily activity spaces.
13. ___________________________ - “snow birds” practice this type of movement.
14. ___________________________ - movement along a definite set of places.
Periodic Movement
15. ___________________________ - a common type of periodic movement which involves millions of
workers in the United States ad tens of millions worldwide.
16. ___________________________ - system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock to
the seasonal availability of pastures.
17. List other examples of periodic movement.
Migration
18. ___________________________ - permanent movement across country borders.
19. ___________________________ - one who migrates out of an country
20. ___________________________ - one who migrates into a country.
21. ___________________________ subtracts from the total population of a country while
___________________________ adds to the population of a country.
22. ___________________________ - permanent movement within a single country’s borders.
Unit
2 Population
Worksheet Five pages 74-79
The following information corresponds to Chapter 3 in your textbook. Fill in the blanks to complete the definition, sentence or
concept. Note: All of the following information in addition to your reading is important, not just the blanks you fill in.
WHY DO PEOPLE MIGRATE?
1. ___________________________ can be the result of a voluntary action, a conscious decision to
move form one place to the next.
2. ___________________________ - involves the imposition of authority or power, producing
involuntary migration movements that cannot be understood based on the theories of choice.
3. ___________________________ - occurs after migrant weighs options and choices and can be
analyzed and understood as a series of options or choices that result in movement.
4. How could the European migration to the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth
century be construed as forced migration?
5. What complexities of migration do geographers study at the household scale?
6. Studies of gender and migration find that which gender is more mobile? Why?
7. What is the key difference between voluntary and forced migration?
Forced Migration
8. What was the largest and most devastating forced migration in the history of humanity?
9. What have the ramifications of the Atlantic slave trade been?
10. According to the map, which flow was the largest?
smallest?
11. List other forced migrations in history.
12. In what ways does forced migration continue today?
Push and Pull Factors in Voluntary Migration
13. British Demographer Ernst Ravenstein proposed several Laws of Migration including:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
14. Ravenstein also proposed the ___________________________ – mathematical prediction of the
interaction between places. Explain.
15. ___________________________ - conditions and perceptions that help the migrant decide to
leave a place. Give examples of some possible push factors:
16. ___________________________ - circumstances that effectively attract the migrant to certain
locales from other places – the decision of where to go. Give examples of some possible pull factors:
17. ___________________________
- effects of distance on interaction and perception, generally the
greater the distance the less interaction and the more distorted the perception. Give examples of
distance decay:
18. ___________________________ - a series of stages involving movement from one place to
another. Give examples of step migration:
19. ___________________________ - presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the
attractiveness of sites farther away. Give examples of intervening opportunities:
Types of Push and Pull Factors
20. Explain each of the types of push/pull factors:
a. economic conditions –
b. political circumstances –
c. armed conflict and civil war –
d. environmental conditions –
e. culture and traditions –
f. technological advances –
21. ___________________________ - migration that occurs when a someone migrates and
encourages other family members/friends to follow, has led to ___________________________ .
Unit
2 Population
Worksheet Six pages 79-92
The following information corresponds to Chapter 3 in your textbook. Fill in the blanks to complete the definition, sentence or
concept. Note: All of the following information in addition to your reading is important, not just the blanks you fill in.
WHERE DO PEOPLE MIGRATE?
Global Migration Flows
1. What is global scale migration?
2. How did European explorers play a role in mapmaking?
3. Define colonization –
4. Describe each migration flow on the map:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Regional Migration Flows
5. Give an example of migration at a regional scale:
6. ___________________________ - places built up by a government or corporation to attract
foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure.
Give 2 examples:
7. How have regional migration flows reconnected the Jewish cultural group?
8. Describe two regional migration flows attributed to conflict and war.
National Migration Flows
9. National migration flows can also be thought of as ___________________________ .
10. List and describe three major national migration flows that have occurred in the United States.
11. List and describe national migration flows in other nations.
Guest Workers
5. ___________________________ - legal labor migrants who have work visas and are usually short
term.
6. What caused the migration of guest workers to Europe?
7. What industries typically employ guest workers?
8. What are some of the negative consequences of being a guest worker?
9. How do guest workers affect the cultural landscape?
Refugees
5. What is a refugee?
6. Why is it difficult to determine the exact number of refugees in the world?
7. What about internal refugees?
8. How does the UN distinguish between international refugees and internal refugees?
9. List and explain the three characteristics of a refugee:
Regions of Dislocation
10. Discuss each of the 5 main regions of dislocation:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Unit
2 Population
Worksheet Seven pages 92-98
The following information corresponds to Chapter 3 in your textbook. Fill in the blanks to complete the definition, sentence or
concept. Note: All of the following information in addition to your reading is important, not just the blanks you fill in.
HOW DO GOVERNMENTS AFFECT MIGRATION?
1. The control of immigration, _______________ and _______________, the problem of asylumseekers, _______________ and _______________, and the fate of cross-border refugees,
_______________ and _______________, have become hot issues around the world.
2. Give one example of a migration situation either in the US or around the world.
3. Give one example of a historical attempt to stop migration.
Legal Restrictions
4. Typically the obstacles places in the way of potential immigrants are _______________________,
not physical.
5. What were the Oriental Exclusion Acts? When and why did they pass?
Waves of Immigration in the United States
The US experienced _____________ major waves of immigration before ______ and is in the midst of
another great wave of immigration today.
6. During the 1800s, the US opened its
doors to immigration. Where did most of
them come from?
7. In the later part of the 1800s where did
a great proportion of them come from?
8. Following WWI political tides in the US turned toward _____________.
9. What are quotas?
10. Who did the US have quotas for?
11. What happened during the Great Depression to immigration?
12. In 1943, Congress gave _____________ equal status to European countries, and in 1952 granted
_____________ a similar status.
13. Estimates vary, but more than _____________ million immigrants may have entered the US as
refugees between 1945 and 1970.
14. What is selective immigration?
15. What examples does the book give for this policy? Give three.
Post-September 11
16. Prior to Sept 11th, the US border patrol was concerned primarily with
__________________________ and __________________________.
17. What three groups do the new government policies affect?
18. Looking at Figure 3.17, list some of the countries that are in red?
19. What happens to anyone entering the US from these countries?
20. What do these countries have in common?
21. Why do you think Indonesia is included in this list?
22. Why do new government policies affect illegal immigrants?
23. The 9/11 terrorists entered the US using _____________.
24. The 9/11 _____________ reported that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flagged more than
_____________ of the 9/11 hijackers with the _____________ system they had in place.
25. The policy at the time was to check the _____________ of those flagged and not the
_____________ themselves.
26. What does the Commission recommend?
27. What do people against the post 9/11 policies say will happen?