Unit 2 Study Guide

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Review your “Correlations” note page.

  1. Define correlation-
  2. How do you determine the strength a correlation? The weakness?

Review your “Comparison Chart and Statistics” note page.

Don’t forget to practice statistics:

  1. What type of correlation exists between CBR and wealth?
  2. Where would you expect to find the highest CBRs?
  3. Is there a correlation between CDR and wealth?
  4. List two things that cause a spike or increase in the CDR? What do we call these?
  5. How do you calculate the NRI?
  6. Where would you expect to find the highest NRI?
  7. Explain how PGR differs from NRI?
  8. What type of correlation exists between PGR and education?
  9. Where might you expect to find the lowest and highest PGRs?
  10. Define TFR-
  11. What is the replacement rate?
  12. At 1% what would a country’s doubling time be? What about at 2%?
  13. Where might you expect to find the highest doubling times? What about the lowest?
  14. Define dependency-
  15. Define life expectancy-
  16. What type of correlation exists between life expectancy and wealth?
  17. Define IMR-
  18. What type of correlation exists between IMR and wealth?
  19. Where would you expect to find the highest IMRs?

Review your “Demographic Transition Model” note page and “DTM & Population Pyramid” Handout.

  1. Complete the following chart related to the Demographic Transition Model.

Stage Name
CBR
CDR
NRI
  1. Are there any countries of the world that are in Stage 1?
  2. What enabled LDC/periphery countries to move into Stage 2?
  3. List two reasons for the decline in CDR in Stage 2.
  4. List two reasons for the decline in CBR in Stage 3.
  5. List two reasons for the continued decline of CBR in Stage 4?
  6. If there was a stage five what would it look like?

Review your “Population Pyramid” note page and page 63 in your textbook.

  1. Explain what could cause the following population pyramids:
  2. There is a large bulge in one cohort for both genders
  3. There many more women than men in the upper most cohort
  4. There is a very narrow symmetrical base
  5. There is just slightly more male infants than women
  6. There is significantly larger number of male infants than female
  7. Fewer adult males than females in 60-70 year olds, but symmetry in 70-80
  8. There are more 20-40 year old males
  1. Define population growth-
  2. Define population composition-
  3. What were the basic population beliefs of Thomas Malthus?
  4. What were the basic population beliefs of Benjamin Franklin?
  5. What were the basic population beliefs of Ester Boserup?
  6. According to our discussions in class, what is unique or interesting about the following regions/countries’ populations?
  1. Java
  2. Nigeria
  3. Zimbabwe/Niger
  4. Russia/Eastern Europe
  5. Japan
  6. Ireland/US/Australia
  7. Egypt
  8. Canada
  1. List the four major population clusters of the world. Circle the largest.
  2. Which climates have the worst carrying capacity? Which climate has the best?
  3. Contrast push and pull factors.
  4. Define refugee-
  5. Contrast international and intranational migration.

Review your “Migration Definitions,” “Chapter 3-Key Issue 1” Handouts, “Population Movements” note page, and pages 72-74 in your textbook.

Don’t forget to read about the Boat people’s experiences:

  1. What is “wet foot / dry foot” policy?
  2. List Ravenstein’s laws of migration.
  1. Identify any push and pull factors in the following migrations of the 20th century (There may not be pull factors in all of them).
  1. Rwandan migration out of Rwanda in 1994

b. Modern shift from Rustbelt to Sunbelt in the US

c. East Asia and Latin America to the US (last 30 years)

d. Cubans to the US since Castro’s coup

  1. Muslims and Eastern Europeans to Western Europe
  2. Russians throughout ELLBUMGAATUTKK during the Cold War
  1. What does the Gravity Model show? How is it calculated?