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Human Population Demographics
Use the Human Population Demographics Powerpoint to help you complete the following
1. What environmental resistance factors were faced by humans during the hunter-gatherer period?
2. What about human society changed during the agricultural revolution?
a. What effect did this have on the population?
3. What density-dependent limiting factors still affected the human population following the agricultural
revolution?
4. List five new technologies that emerged following the industrial revolution.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
5. Define infant mortality –
a. What happened to infant mortality during the industrial revolution?
b. How did infant mortality affect life expectancy?
6. Define exponential growth –
7. Fill in the table indicating the length of time
For the human population to hit each BILLION people
8. Define doubling time –
a. Give the equation for calculating doubling time.
9. Define demographics –
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WORLD POPULATION
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10. Complete the table in comparing DEVELOPING and DEVELOPED countries
OLDER/YOUNGER
POOR/WEALTHY
GROWING/SHRINKING
Developing Countries
Developed Countries
11. Label the developed and developing regions on this population growth graph.
12. Most of the current human population growth is found in ( developed / developing ) countries.
13. Define each of these important demographic variables:
Give the maximum population
size projections:
a. Life Expectancy –
a. Low: ____________
b. Medium: ___________
c. High: ____________
b. Total Fertility Rate –
c. Gross Domestic Product per capita –
14. Fill in the demographic data for these two countries:
Country
GDP Per Capita
Total Fertility Rate
Life Expectancy
United States
Afghanistan
15. What is the correlation between life expectancy and GDP?
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16. What are the two factors that most affect life expectancy?
17. What are two of the most important factors in studying the demographics of the human population?
18. Label each of these as example of antinatalist(A) or pronatalist(P) factors.
_____
_____
_____
_____
The son preference
Increased education levels of family.
Women having access to professional careers.
Family lives in a developing country.
19. Fill out this summary table of the differences between the stages of the population transition model.
Description of Living
Conditions
Birth
Rates
(High /
Low)
Death
Rates
(High /
Low)
Population
Change
Preindustrial
Early
Transitional
Late
Transitional
Industrial
PostIndustrial
20. Label the preindustrial, transitional, industrial, and post-industrial stages on this graph.
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