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Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Population bingoRead the answer and worked solution →India reports 940 females per 1,000 males. What is this figure called?Read the answer and worked solution →A region shows a sex ratio strongly unfavourable to women. Which practices does the text link to this?Read the answer and worked solution →On average, the world has how many males per 100 females?Read the answer and worked solution →Which country records the highest sex ratio in the world, with only 85 males per 100 females?Read the answer and worked solution →Which country has about 311 males for every 100 females?Read the answer and worked solution →The sex ratio favours females in how many countries of the world?Read the answer and worked solution →Why do many European countries have a deficit of males?Read the answer and worked solution →Which age group forms the working population?Read the answer and worked solution →A country has a large share of people above 60. What does this require?Read the answer and worked solution →A diagram shows males on the left and females on the right by age group. What is it called?Read the answer and worked solution →Nigeria's population pyramid is triangular with a wide base. What does it show?Read the answer and worked solution →Australia's population pyramid is bell shaped. What does this indicate?Read the answer and worked solution →Japan's pyramid has a narrow base and tapered top. What does this show?Read the answer and worked solution →The share of older people in a population keeps rising. What is this process called?Read the answer and worked solution →In India, literacy rate counts people above what age who can read, write and do arithmetic?Read the answer and worked solution →In Western countries, where do females outnumber males?Read the answer and worked solution →In India, Nepal and Pakistan, urban areas have more males than females. Why?Read the answer and worked solution →Agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining are classed as which type of activity?Read the answer and worked solution →A garment factory worker is engaged in which sector?Read the answer and worked solution →Trade, transport and communication belong to which sector?Read the answer and worked solution →A software researcher developing new ideas works in which sector?Read the answer and worked solution →A country has most workers in primary activities. What does this suggest about its economy?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the primary jobsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the low sex ratioRead the answer and worked solution →Run the ratiosRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the pyramid wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Which pyramidRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the sectorsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Questions
  1. Answer
    90
    Question
    Share of world people on 10 per cent of land, per cent
  2. Answer
    6
    Question
    Asian countries among the ten most populous
  3. Answer
    550
    Question
    World population around 1750 in millions
  4. Answer
    12
    Question
    Years to go from 5 to 6 billion
  5. Answer
    318
    Question
    Years some rich countries need to double
  6. Answer
    1798
    Question
    Year of Malthus's theory
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 2, The World Population._

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Population bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Live births per thousand in a year.
    Item
    CBR
  2. Clue
    Deaths per thousand in a year.
    Item
    CDR
  3. Clue
    Migrant moving into a new place.
    Item
    Immigrant
  4. Clue
    Migrant moving out of a place.
    Item
    Emigrant
  5. Clue
    Makes the origin less attractive.
    Item
    Push factor
  6. Clue
    Makes the destination attractive.
    Item
    Pull factor
  7. Clue
    1798 warning that food would run short.
    Item
    Malthus
  8. Clue
    African copper belt drawing people.
    Item
    Katanga
  9. Clue
    Dense Japanese industrial region.
    Item
    Kobe-Osaka
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 2, The World Population._

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India reports 940 females per 1,000 males. What is this figure called?

  1. Sex ratio
  2. Birth rate
  3. Literacy rate
  4. Death rate
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Correct answer: A. Sex ratio

1. The ratio of women to men is the sex ratio. 2. India counts females per thousand males. 3. Some countries count males per hundred females. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 3, Population Composition._

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