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José Carlos Núñez Vidal

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U N I TU N I T 33 .. T H E P O P U L A T I O NT H E P O P U L A T I O N ..

KEYS FOR THE EXAM (you have to know…): - Define: • Population. • Demography. • Population Explosion. • Baby Boom. • Population pyramid.

• Migration • Rural Exodus. • Refugees. • Foreigners Act (Ley de extranjeria). • Underground economy.

- Explain the differences between: • Census, register of inhabitants

and civil registration. • Birth rates and fertility.

• Active and inactive population. • Migrant and immigrant.

- List the utilities that may have population studies. - Calculate Density rates, mortality, infant mortality, expectatives of life,

birth, fertility, natural increase, migration, real growth, unemployment... - Recognizes whether a country is rich or developed from their rates.

- List/resume in a diagram the factors settlement and classifies them into natural and human.

- Points in a world or Spain map the great centers and gaps population.

- List/resume in a diagram the factors affecting mortality and birth. - Summarize in a table the demographic transition. - Recognizes in a graphic the different stages of the demographic

transition.

- Build a population pyramid. - Recognizes what kind of country belongs a population pyramid and its

consequences. - List the advantages and disadvantages of each population structure. - Name / lists the demographic structure for each type of policy. - Recognize which country belongs to a graph of economic structure.

- Classify the kinds of migration. - Lists / names the elements involved in a migration. - Point in a map the current migrations. - Name / lists the benefits and disadvantages of migration.



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ACTIVITIES: POPULATION DENSITY.

1. Define: [In the summary specified] a) Population: b) Demography: c) Census:

d) Register of inhabitants (Padrón):

e) Civil registration:

2. Copy the diagram in your notebook about demography studies:

3. Calculate the population density rate.

Superficie Km2 Habitantes Densidad JAPON 370.000 127.214.500 BRASIL 8.500.000 182.032.600 RUSIA 17.075.200 144.526.280

AUSTRALIA 7.659.861 21.766.711

CHINA 9.572.900 1.336.718.015 EE. UU. 9.400.000 290.342.550

FINLANDIA 339.000 5.269.250 MONGOLIA 1.564.160 3.133.318

EGIPTO 1.002.000 82.079.636 MAURITANIA 1.564.160 3.218.634

ESPAÑA 500.000 40.217.413 INDIA 3.300.000 1.049.700.100

a) Order it from more and less populated. b) Why has China less population density than Japan if China is the

most populous country? c) Why is there so little density in Finland? And what in Mongolia? d) Why Egypt and Mauritania have such different density if both are in

a desert?



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ACTIVITIES: THE DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION.

1. Read and complete the summary table in your notebook: Factor favouring settlement Physical factors Human factors

2. Look at the world map below and answer the questions:

a) What are the most populated hemispheric, North or South? b) What are, from highest to lowest, the most populated areas in the

world? c) What are the most uninhabited or empty areas in the world? d) Does it affect physical factors in a poor country like in a rich one? e) Is Spain a populated country or sparsely populated?

3. Look at the Spain map below and answer the questions:

a) Are there more people in the interior or in the coast? Why? b) Are there any exceptions? Which ones? c) Is the population of Spain mostly urban or rural?



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ACTIVITIES: NATURAL MOVEMENT.

1. Calculate the rates below: Andalucía Cantabria You have to calculate Population 7.687.518 334.784 Density Area 87.597 5.321 Birth Rate Births 86.015 4.783 Mortality Rate Deaths 64.715 5.519 Infant Mortality Rate Deaths of children under one year 344 13 Vegetative Growth

2. Look at the map below of Vegetative Growth and answers:

a) What continents have more growth? Are they developed countries? b) Which countries have lower growth? Why did they not grow? c) What means negative growth? Looking for a country that has it.

3. Look at the map and answer:

a) Which Communities has more growth? Which are losing population? b) Why are these differences?



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ACTIVITIES: THE EVOLUTION OF THE POPULATION

1. Define: a) Natural movement: b) Population Explosion: c) Baby Boom:

2. Look at the graphic below and complete the table in your notebook:

3. Look at the graphs and answer:

a) How has been the evolution of the Spanish population? b) Why there was negative growth in 1910 and 1930?

Birth Rate Mortality Age of the Population

Vegetative Growth

Where and when?

Old Demographic Regime

Demographic Revolution

New Demographic Regime



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ACTIVITIES: THE POPULATION PYRAMIDS.

1. Draw in your notebook the three types of pyramids, write which age group predominates in each one and what kind of country belongs:

2. Built a population pyramid in your notebook with the table.

o Use a grid to the coordinate axes. o The men on the left and women on the right.

3. Answer the questions about the pyramid:

a) What is a population pyramid? b) Are born more boys or more girls? At what age are balanced? c) Has a profile of pagoda or barrel? Is the population growing? d) Does young or adults predominate? e) How is the Birth rate? How is the mortality? f) What kind of country is it? g) What are their problems and advantages? h) Is there a hole or ledge on the pyramid? Why?



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ACTIVITIES: THE STRUCTURES OF POPULATION.

1. Explain the difference between active and inactive population.

2. Calculate the following rates: density, births, deaths, vegetative growth, activity and unemployment.

Population Area Births Deaths Active population Unemployed 1982 37.844.910 500,000 509,685 325,466 13,763 2,286 2007 45.200.737 500,000 495,400 381,042 22,404 1,927

3. With the data, built a pyramid of population. Use a grid sheet.

4. Look at the graphic and answer the questions.

a) In which sector are more Spanish workers used? And in 1900? b) Which belongs a rich country and which a poor one? Why? c) With 2004 data complete the graphic on the right.



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ACTIVITIES: MIGRATION MOVEMENTS.

1. Define or explain the differences between: a) Migration: b) Immigration and emigration: c) Birth and fertility: d) Natural growth and real growth:

2. Complete in your notebook the following diagram.

3. Read these statements about different emigrations and classify

them in the Table. a) "Because I could not defend what I think, I had to abandom my country." b) "I'm young and I think if I leave the USA I'll get to work experience, and

that will improve my resume. " c) "In this part of the country the government persecutes those who are

Kurds, and if I'm not leaving to another place, they can kill me. " d) "In my country the drought lasts many years and people die of hungry, so I

want to emigrate. " e) "My family lives on agriculture but we can not feed all, and my older

brothers will have to migrate to the city. " f) "Every summer I move to the coast to work as a waiter in a popular tourist

area. " According its causes According its duration According its destination A B C D E F

4. If you have ever migrated, make a half-page editorial explaining why you have had to emigrate, what you left behind (home, friends, family...) and you felt doing so. If you have not migrated, imagine your feelings.



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ACTIVITIES: THE MAIN MIGRATIONS IN THE WORLD.

1. Define: a) Rural Exodus: b) Refugees:

2. Look at the map and answer:

a) What kind of countries receives people, rich countries or poor ones? b) From where are the expelled population? c) Spain is receiving or sending country? d) Where migrate mainly Europeans? Why?

3. Look at the graph and map and responds:

a) Why are there so many British and German immigrants? And

Moroccan? b) What areas of Spain do immigrants prefer?



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1. Define: a) Brain Drain: b) Foreigners Act (Ley de extranjeria). c) Underground Economy:

2. Complete in your notebook the table below: EFFECTS OF MIGRATION

For countries Departure For arrival countries Benefits Problems Benefits Problems

3. Calculate Growth, Balance Migrant and real growth: Population Births Deaths Emigrants Immigrants Vegetative

Growth Migration Balance

Real Growth

Final Population

14,800 580 180 325 24

17,900 320 170 84 728

21,100 530 170 528 46

4. Answer the following questions:

a) If developed countries gave more aid to develop economies of poor countries, how would it affect migration?

b) If you move your house within your city, is a migration? Why? c) If you accept a scholarship to study for a year in London, what kind

of migration will be?



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REVIEW ACTIVITIES.

1. Calculate the following rates and indicates whether they are poor or rich countries.

Country Population Births Deaths Birth Rate Mortality Vegetative Growth

Nigeria 133.881.700 5.194.609 1.847.567 Spain 40.217.413 406.195 382.065 India 10.497.001.000 244.580.123 89.224.508 USA 290.342.550 4.093.829 2.438.877 Japan 127.214.500 1.221.559 109.404 Angola 10.766.471 490.951 277.774 Zambia 10.307.333 407.139 250.468

Brazil 182.032.600 3.221.977 11.103.988

2. Built and analyse the following pyramid of Egypt.

3. Complete in your notebook the following scheme.



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RECOVERY ACTIVITIES.

1. Are the following statements true or false?

2. Complete the following table:

3. Match the following stages with their demographic characteristics

4. Underline the defining features of the population of this pyramid:

5. Describe the shape of this pyramid and how its population is:



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6. Find these concepts in the puzzle: a) Average number of children that a woman will have in her lifetime. b) Births in a population. c) Deaths in a population. d) Relationship between the territory and the population. e) Displacement that is a change of residence. f) A person who leaves his place of birth. g) Population age and availability of work.

7. Look at the graphic and complete the text above. 8. Look at the table and performs the following calculations.

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population structure

population pyramid

population studies

distribution of population

gaps population

inactive population

population explosion

population density rate