Study

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....