Population

In this unit you will find out the answers to the following questions:

1. What is happening to the world's population? Why?
2. What is happening to Britain's population? Why?
3. Why do people migrate?
4. What are the causes and consequences of migration?

You will develop the following skills:

1. Describing and explaining population patterns
2. Collecting, recording and presenting evidence
3. Using an extended geographical vocabulary

Key words to learn
birth rate, death rate, density, densely populated, distribution, Less Economically Developed Country (LEDC), migration, More Economically Developed Country (MEDC), natural increase, population pyramid, sparsely populated