Unit1

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PopulationPopulation

What do we know?

Population development

Which factor affecting population growth does this image show?

What other factors affect population growth?

Distribution of the world’s population

What areas of the world have the lowest population density?

Which conditions produce high or low population density?

Natality and birth rates

Which parts of the world have high birth rates? Why?

Which parts of the world have low birth rates? Why?

Mortality and death rates

What is the difference between death rate and life expectancy?

What factors affect death rates?

Global natural increase

What is natural increase?

Which continent has the lowest natural increase? Why do you think this is the case?

The demographic transition model

What happens to birth and death rates in the early expanding stage?

Why is there negative natural increase in the low stationary stage?

Population density

Which of these countries has the highest population density?

Which of these countries has the lowest population density?

Population structure

Which of the criteria for classifying population are shown in these images?

What other criteria can we use to classify population?

Population pyramids

What can we say about the birth and death rates of these countries?

What factors could explain the differences in these countries’ pyramids?

Population in Europe and Spain

Which parts of Europe have the highest population density?

Which areas are uninhabited, and why?

Population in Spain

What are the main characteristics of Spain’s population?

What do you think the consequences of an ageing population could be?

Population in less-developed countries

What are the demographic characteristics of less-developed countries?

What can governments do to combat overpopulation?

Economic activity

Which factors of production can you see in this image?

What other factors of production are there?

What have we learned?

Throughout history the world’s population has continued to increase

The Earth is not evenly populated. Distribution is shown by population density

It is measured by rates: birth, death and natural increase

Changes over time are analysed by the demographic transition model

Distribution of theworld’s population

Distribution of theworld’s population

Population structure

Natural population change

PopulationdevelopmentPopulationdevelopment

Population movement

It can be regular (commuting and related to leisure) and migratory (emigrationand immigration)

Population can be classified by sex, age, economic activity and levelof education

What have we learned?

Population challengesPopulation challenges

Population of Spain: density is average; the population is ageing

Less-developed countries: overpopulation

Developed countries: ageing population

The populations of Europe and Spain

Population of Europe: density is high; the population is ageing

Population and the economyPopulation and the economy

Natural resources: basic resources provided by nature. Some are used as raw materials or energy sources

Distribution of resources: unequal

Economic activity: goods and services, due to factors of production (natural resources, labour and capital)