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study * Population Pyramid – Population structure that shows the number of males and females within different age groups in the population
* Characteristics of population
* Age
* Sex
* Birth rate
* Death rate
* Life expectancy
* Natural Increase
* Migration
* Push
* Natural disasters
* Man-made disasters
* Overpopulation/ lack of resources
* Racial discrimination/ religious and political prsecution
* Government schemes
* Pull
* Improve standard of living
* Improve quality of life
* Amenities
* Increased personal freedom
* Closer to friends and family or people of a similar culture
* 5
4
3
2
1
Burgess model
* 1- Central Business District
* 2- Transitional area
* 3- Low class residential area
* 4- Medium class residential
* 5- High class residential
* Types of farming
* Intensive –large inputs of money, labour or technology to achieve high outputs and farms are usually quite small.
* Extensive- small inputs for large areas of land, usually found where conditions are poor.
* Arable - ploughing of land and growing of cops.
* Pastoral – leaving of land under grass and rearing of animals.
* Market gardening-when fruit, flowers and vegetables ar grown under controlled conditions.
* Commercial- outputs from farms are mainly or entirely for sale
* Subsistence- produces food for themselves and their family. Rarely any profit or spare food.
* Birth rate = number of births x 1000 ÷ population= _____ per 1000 persons
Death rate= number of deaths x 1000 ÷ population=____per 1000 persons
Natural Increase = (Birth rate- Death rate) ÷ 10=_____
* Primate city- the main city in a country or region that is so much larger than the rest that it dwarfs all others. Usually consists of 1/3 of population....