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[Source: commons.wikimedia.org Author fargomeD License GNU Free Documentation License] 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 [...]

   [Source: flickr.com Image by Concrete Forms Some rights reserved] 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 [...]

[Photo source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Favelas-portoalegre.jpg Author: Tetraktys] 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 [...]

Image by bobster855 (flickr.com Some rights reserved ) 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 [...]

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 [...]

Recapping some key words … can you define the following: Birth Rate Death rate Natural Increase Natural Decrease Sec 2 – Birth Rate & Death Rate View more presentations from chua.geog. First, use the above slideshow to revise some reasons for high and low birth and death rates. You should make a table to summarise [...]

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 [...]