Chapter 4

Question 1

What is demography?

Answer 1

The study of human population

Question 2

What is a population explosion? Where does it occur?

Answer 2

When the population is growing by large amounts this tends to happen in areas with more poverty and more in near core and far periphery countries.

Question 3

What are the three stages of technological change?

Answer 3

1. Hunting and gathering societies
2. Agricultural Revolution
3. Industrial revolution

Question 4

What is causing declining birth rates?

Answer 4

• less focus on the family
• 1 child policy in some countries
• women working same hours as men
• higher cost of living