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A population pyramid (or age sex structure) often tells a story. Detective Discussion points:

What are the unusual features of the above age-sex structure?
Can you suggest possible reasons?

So how might this story look if we plotted the birth rates and death rates on the same line [...]

 
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All economies need to answer the three basic questions which result from the fact of scarcity:

What to produce
How to produce
For whom to produce

For a market economy, we need to research the following:
a) How it works – how does it answer the three basic [...]

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Your overall tasks are to:
1)  Find out about some of the problems experienced by people who arrive in the shanty towns in Brazil’s large cities
2) Create a photo movie to show these problems experienced by people.
These tasks should be completed over the course of one lesson and two home-works.
Part [...]

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All economies need to answer the three basic questions which result from the fact of scarcity:

What to produce
How to produce
For whom to produce

For a planned economy, we need to research the following:
a) How it works – how does it answer the three basic questions above?
b) Advantages of this [...]

Before moving on it is worth recapping the Demographic Transition model:
BBC Scotland Animation of DTM
Now we compare population structures (also known as age-sex structures or ‘population pyramids’) between MEDCs and LEDCs. The following animation should make sense before moving on:
BBC Scotland Education Population Pyramid Flash Animation
Now download the following worksheet and follow the instructions:
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Recapping some key words … can you define the following:

Birth Rate
Death rate
Natural Increase
Natural Decrease

Sec 2 – Birth Rate & Death Rate
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First, use the above slideshow to revise some reasons for high and low birth and death rates.
You should make a table to summarise these causes of high and low birth and [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ppf_small.png
These can sometimes be referred to as Production Possibility Curves (PPCs), to reflect their shape. Frontier is a better word to use … you will need to think about what it is that the term frontier implies.
This session assumes you have a basic knowledge of PPFs already and points you to resources to help strengthen [...]

We are thinking about how the world’s population (and different countries / continents’ population) is changing and why.
First a snap shot
An excellent link to show estimated births and deaths (as well as CO2 emissions) across the planet – click on it to view in full:
http://www.breathingearth.net/
How has the world population changed in your lifetime?
Use the following [...]