Population Change 100%

Define pull factor and give examples of pull factors.

Define push factor, and give some examples of push factors.

Area of sociology devoted to the study of human populations.

The________ is a measure of the rate at which a country's population is increasing.

How is the death rate calculated?

Average number of years that a person born in a particular year can expect to live.

What 3 demographic values affect the size of a population?

Number of people living in an area at a particular time.

______ is the movement of people from one specified area to another.

English economist Thomas R. Malthus predicted that there would not be any problems resulting from population growth. t/f?

The biological capability to bear children.

The demographic transition theory helps explain a. why people move. c. how migration is related to pull factors. b. how to gather the demographic statistics of a society. d. how population change is related to the technological development of a society.

The annual number of deaths per 1,000 members of a population.

Which of the following is a "pull" factor? a. political freedom c. racial discrimination b. political persecution d. overpopulation

A demographer is a specialist who studies the size, composition, and distribution of a population. t/f?

Number of deaths within a society.

Annual number of live births per 1,000 members of a population.

The actual number of births occurring to women of childbearing age.

Migration occurs as a result of push and pull factors. t/f?