Population Reach Out
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POPULATION REACH OUT YEAR 6 name: class: Knowledge Organiser • Population • Year 6 Vocabulary Population Challenges Birth rate The number births per 1000 people per Rapidly 1. Hard for authorities to plan when year. growing populations grow quickly Death rate The number of deaths per 1000 people population 2. Increased pressure on resources, per year. land and services (such as health and Infant The number of babies that die before education) mortality rate their first birthday, per 1000 live births 3. Increased pollution per year. Ageing 1. Increased pressure on health services Natural When there are more births than population 2. Fewer people in the population increase deaths, so the population grows. working and paying taxes Natural When there are more deaths and 3. Increased poverty amongst older decrease births, so the population shrinks. people. Life The average age that a person is Feeding the 1. in 8 people still go hungry every day expectancy expected to live to. population 2. Food is not evenly distributed. Inequality A lack of fairness or equality. 3. A lot of food is wasted. Population The people who live in a particular place. Migration The movement of people (or animals) from one place to another. Population The number of people living in one density square kilometre. Population How people are spread out. distribution Rural area An area of countryside or a village. Urban area An area of town or city. Sparsely Very few people live in the area. populated For example: rural areas such as the Scottish Highlands. Densely Many people live in the area. For populated example: cities such as Manila in the Philippines and Milan in Italy. 2 Lesson Question You will learn Learning Review Where are all the • How many people live on the planet people? • Where people are distributed globally • What the population density of the UK is Why does • Why populations grow population • Reasons why death rates and birth rates change? change • How the UK`s population has changed What is a • What a population pyramid is population • Why population pyramids are useful pyramid? • How to create a population pyramid What challenges • Why a rapidly growing population creates can a growing challenges population present? • Why slums develop in rapidly growing cities • How pollution can become a serious problem What challenges • What an ageing population is can an ageing • How an ageing population develops population present? • The challenges that an ageing population presents How do we feed the • There is global inequality in food security planet? • Why food insecurity exists • How food insecurity can be solved 3 Lesson 01 Where are all the people? 1. Study the graph below and answer the questions. Graph: World Population Growth 1750-2100 a. What is the earliest date on the graph? _________________________________ b. What year are we in now? _____________________________________________ c. Approximately how many people lived on the planet in 1900? ___________ d. Approximately how many people live on the planet in 2020? _____________ e. Approximately how many people do we think will live on the planet in 2080? __________________ 2. Describe the pattern shown in the graph. Between 1760 and 2020 the world’s population ___________________________________________ For example, in 1800 there were 0.9 billion people and by 2020 there were _________________ billion people. This shows that the world’s population has _________________________________. The graph also shows that in the future, experts believe the world’s population wil __________ _____________________________. 4 • Lesson 1 3. Study the map and answer the questions. Map: Global Population Density (number of people per km2) a. Two countries with high population density are ____________________________. b. Two countries with low population density are _____________________________. c. The population density in the majority of Australia is 0-1 / 550-1100 people per kilometre squared. d. The population density in the majority of Europe is over 16-30 / 2500-5000 people per kilometre squared. e. Is population density the same all over the world? ______________________________. 4. What is population density? _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Lesson 1 • 5 5. Study the map and answer the questions. Map: Population Density in the UK (people per km2, 2011) Make sure you include the units. a. What is the population density in northern Scotland? _____________________________ b. What is the population density in London? _______________________________________ c. Where do you live? ____________________________________________________________ d. What is the population density in the place where you live? _____________________ e. Population density in the UK varies / does not vary . Population density tends to increase / decrease as you go south, so this means there are more / less people living in the south compared to the north. However, there are areas outside of the southern area that have higher population density, for example cities such as Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool. 6 • Lesson 1 6. Where do all the world’s people live? Tips: • How many people live on the planet? • What is happening to the number of people living on the planet? • Are they evenly spread around the world? • Which places have higher / lower population density? _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Lesson 1 • 7 Lesson 02 Why does population change? Retrieval Practice 1. By 2100 the global population is expected to have reached approximately: a. 6 billion b. 15 billion c. 10 billion d. 20 billion 2. Name one country with overall high population density. 3. Name one country with overall low population density. 4. Total global population is decreasing. True / False 5. The majority of the world’s population live in Asia. True / False 8 • Lesson 2 1. Match the key term with the correct definition. Birth rate When there are more deaths than births, so the population shrinks. Death rate The people who live in a particular place. Natural increase The number of births per 1000 people per year. Natural decrease The average age that a person is expected to live to. Population The number of deaths per 1000 people per year. Life expectancy When there are more births than deaths, so the population grows. 2. Read the text about the UK’s changing population. During the 1800s, the population of Great In the UK today, birth rates are still low and Britain increased very quickly. In 1811, 18 million much lower than some other countries around people lived in the UK but by 1851, there were the world. Another factor that experts think 27 million people. Some cities nearly doubled has contributed to this is that raising children in size during this time: London grew from 1.5 can be expensive and so people sometimes million inhabitants to 2.5 million inhabitants. By choose to have fewer children because of 1850, more than 50% of the British population this. The death rate in the UK has also stayed were living in towns and cities, working in low. This reflects the good healthcare system factories and mines. This was very different to the UK has with the NHS and that education on before the 1800s, when most people live in health and hygiene has continued to improve rural (countryside) areas and worked on farms. the health of many people. People earn more money and so are able to pay for healthier However, the population growth rate started to food and better living conditions. All of these slow down in the 1900s. Women started getting things help people live a longer, healthier life. married later and having fewer children. This isn’t to say that there aren’t serious health People also had access to contraception problems in the UK, but rather that there have which reduced the birth rate. Furthermore, been huge improvements since the 1800s. medical care had improved and this reduced the death rate and so overall, the population began to grow more slowly. Lesson 2 • 9 3. Answer the questions using the information in the passage on previous page.. a. During the 1800s, was the UK’s population growth fast or slow? _______________ b. Before the 1800s, did most people in the UK live in rural or urban areas? _______ c. What happened to the population growth rate in the 1900s? _________________ d. Give