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Epidemiological transition

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION MODEL

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Demographic Transition Explained? The World Population is What??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSX4ytEfcE How do we explain how we got in this predicament? Let me explain ? ?The Demographic Transition Model? ? A series of stages that a country goes through when transitioning from non- industrial to industrial. ? Involves five stages that are based on changes in population size and social behaviors. ? CBR : High - Why? ? CDR: High - Why? ? Population: Stable ? Hunter-Gatherer Societies ? Economic Activity: Basic Primary (basic?) ? Examples ? No Countries? but small bans of indigenous people in isolated areas. Stage 1 ?Low Growth? Population Pyramid Shape ? CBR: High ? Why? ? CDR: Falls Rapidly ? Why? ? Population: Very rapid increase - Why?

Population Pyramid Examples

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Population Pyramids = graphic device that represents a population?s age and sex composition. Pyramid describes diagram?s shape for many countries in 1800?s when was created. A broad base of younger age groups and progressively narrowing to apex as older Populations were thinned by death. Now there are many different shapes. Quickly growing population of Kenya ? jas ,most people in lowest age cohorts Percentage in older age groups declines successively with markedly sloping sides. Typically female life expectancy is decreased in older cohorts of less developed countries ? 50 for Kenya ? proportion of females in older age groups is less than in Sweden or U.S.

AP Human Geography Chapter 2 Test Questions

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1) The Indus and Ganges river plains hold a major part of what world population cluster? South Asia 2) One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries. 3) Geographers define overpopulation as too many people compared to environmental capacity. 4) Human beings avoid all but which of these regions? warm lands 5) The world's most populous country is China. 6) Which of the following is not one of the world's largest population concentrations? North America 7) The most populous country in the Southeast Asia region is Indonesia. 8) A country with a high physiological density has a lot of people for every unit of farmland.
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