KS3 population - with migration from one country to another

Geography Quiz - Population 05 (Questions)

Play our final KS3 Geography quiz on population. Changes in populations are due to many factors - migration, improving or worsening standards of living, wars, natural disasters and so on. An example of the latter was the destruction of the town of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 - the town was completely depopulated.

In more recent times, in places like Africa and the Balkan states, certain groups of people have tried to completely exterminate other populations by killing them. This is called genocide and is usually caused by racial or religious prejudices.

Populations fluctuate (change up and down) naturally. In times of famine, populations will decline as the most vulnerable people starve to death.

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The immune systems of babies are not as well developed as older children and adults so if there are diseases around, infant mortality will be high - fewer babies will survive and if the rates of infant survival is less than the death rate amongst the rest of the population overall, the population will fall. In LEDCs, women tend to have more children than women in MEDCs, and they start having children at much younger ages too. The birth rate is often higher than the death rate and so the population shows a natural increase

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Moving by choice is what sort of migration?

[ ]	Decisive
[ ]	Forced
[ ]	Temporary
[ ]	Voluntary

The average number of children born to each woman is called the what?

[ ]	Birthing rate
[ ]	Fertility rate
[ ]	Hatching rate
[ ]	Maternity rate

What is the best way to describe the UK's population?

[ ]	Ageing
[ ]	Coffin dodgers
[ ]	Rapidly falling
[ ]	Teenage

In which of the following countries is rapid population growth most likely to have happened?

[ ]	Canada
[ ]	Ghana
[ ]	Greece
[ ]	Sweden

If birth rate is higher than death rate what will happen?

[ ]	Everyone will leave
[ ]	Population will fall
[ ]	Population will rise
[ ]	Population will stay the same

Which is an argument against migration?

[ ]	If immigrants return home they take new skills with them
[ ]	Immigrants often do those jobs that nobody else wants
[ ]	Immigrants send money back home to help their families
[ ]	It can lead to prejudice

Which of the following is most likely to have a sparse population density?

[ ]	Employment opportunities
[ ]	Good road links
[ ]	Good shopping centres
[ ]	Steep slopes

When a person moves for less than a year it is known as what?

[ ]	Annual migration
[ ]	Demi-migration
[ ]	Partial migration
[ ]	Temporary migration

Population grows slowly in MEDCs. What is not a reason for this?

[ ]	Contraception is readily available
[ ]	It is expensive to raise a child
[ ]	Many women choose to put a career before children
[ ]	Women marry young

10.

How is natural population growth defined?

[ ]	By how much the population numbers drop
[ ]	How many tall people there are
[ ]	The difference between birth rate and death rate
[ ]	The number of migrants

Geography Quiz - Population 05 (Answers)

Moving by choice is what sort of migration?

[ ]	Decisive
[ ]	Forced
[ ]	Temporary
[x]	Voluntary

Migration can be either internal or international

The average number of children born to each woman is called the what?

[ ]	Birthing rate
[x]	Fertility rate
[ ]	Hatching rate
[ ]	Maternity rate

It's used as one of the ways of measuring population growth and is a statistical figure rather than a measure of the fertility of the women in a particular country

What is the best way to describe the UK's population?

[x]	Ageing
[ ]	Coffin dodgers
[ ]	Rapidly falling
[ ]	Teenage

People are living longer so the average age in the UK is getting higher

In which of the following countries is rapid population growth most likely to have happened?

[ ]	Canada
[x]	Ghana
[ ]	Greece
[ ]	Sweden

Ghana is in West Africa and is an LEDC. Many LEDCs have had a large population growth since international aid agencies have brought better healthcare and clean water supplies to remote communities

If birth rate is higher than death rate what will happen?

[ ]	Everyone will leave
[ ]	Population will fall
[x]	Population will rise
[ ]	Population will stay the same

This is referred to as a natural increase

Which is an argument against migration?

[ ]	If immigrants return home they take new skills with them
[ ]	Immigrants often do those jobs that nobody else wants
[ ]	Immigrants send money back home to help their families
[x]	It can lead to prejudice

It's thought there are over 100,000 racial incidents in the UK each year - not all of them are reported

Which of the following is most likely to have a sparse population density?

[ ]	Employment opportunities
[ ]	Good road links
[ ]	Good shopping centres
[x]	Steep slopes

It's difficult to build and farm in such areas so very few people attempt it unless they have no other option

When a person moves for less than a year it is known as what?

[ ]	Annual migration
[ ]	Demi-migration
[ ]	Partial migration
[x]	Temporary migration

An example would be a student going to university

Population grows slowly in MEDCs. What is not a reason for this?

[ ]	Contraception is readily available
[ ]	It is expensive to raise a child
[ ]	Many women choose to put a career before children
[x]	Women marry young

Women tend to marry younger in LEDCs and have more children sooner than women in MEDCs

10.

How is natural population growth defined?

[ ]	By how much the population numbers drop
[ ]	How many tall people there are
[x]	The difference between birth rate and death rate
[ ]	The number of migrants

Death rate includes infant mortality