Population

Read the article Population change and economic development and answer
these questions (on lined paper or on a computer).

1. What name is given to the study of population?

2. Describe population as a ‘system’.

3. Describe the relationship between poverty and population growth. What are
the two ideas about their relationship? Which argument does the author of the
article agree with?

4. What key economic change resulted in the first significant population change?

5. How do cultural traditions influence population change?

6. What 2 models have been devised to show the connection between

industrialisation and population growth?

7. What are the problems with these models?

8. Draw 2 mind maps to show the factors which affect fertility and mortality.

Population
Read the article Population change and economic development and answer
these questions (on lined paper or on a computer).

1. What name is given to the study of population?

2. Describe population as a ‘system’.

3. Describe the relationship between poverty and population growth. What are
the two ideas about their relationship? Which argument does the author of the
article agree with?

4. What key economic change resulted in the first significant population change?

5. How do cultural traditions influence population change?

6. What 2 models have been devised to show the connection between

industrialisation and population growth?

7. What are the problems with these models?

8. Draw 2 mind maps to show the factors which affect fertility and mortality.